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Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming
Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...
2025-07-29 20:06
Fish Shell Adds Modern Features to Your Ubuntu Terminal
Fish might be the Bash alternative you didn't know you needed, thanks to features like highlighting, and smarter command suggestions. Learn how to install it on Ubuntu. You're reading Fish Shell Adds Modern Features to Your Ubuntu Terminal, a blog post...
2025-07-29 18:04
Fish is Like Bash With a Brain — Here’s How to Try it on Ubuntu
Fish might be the Bash alternative you didn't know you needed, thanks to features like highlighting, and smarter command suggestions. Learn how to install it on Ubuntu. You're reading Fish is Like Bash With a Brain — Here’s How to Try it on Ubuntu,...
2025-07-29 18:04
Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver
The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular sta...
2025-07-29 16:19
Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI
Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python a...
2025-07-29 15:05
xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes
It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesettin...
2025-07-29 14:04
Canonical MAAS awarded as best quality software by TIOBE
Canonical’s MAAS User Interface has been ranked as the top-quality software project in its category by the quarterly TIOBE Software Quality Assurance Award
2025-07-29 13:30
AMD Streaming SDK Updated With Linux Support - But Recommending X.Org Over Wayland
AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-o...
2025-07-29 11:29
Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap
Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC perfor...
2025-07-29 10:10
Linux 6.17 Lands New file_getattr & file_setattr System Calls
Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra ...
2025-07-29 08:15
A 10x Workaround & Less Network Egress Downtime Change Submitted For Linux 6.17
The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is develop...
2025-07-29 06:50
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point
For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...
2025-07-29 06:15
Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17
The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...
2025-07-29 06:05
Linux 6.17 Will Allow Writing Zeroes More Efficiently To SSDs
In addition to the VFS changes merrged yesterday for allowing multi-device file-systems to better cope with losing a disk, another notable change as part of the VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 allows more efficiently zeroing out a range on modern NVMe...
2025-07-29 05:48
EROFS Metadata Compression Lands Plus A ~2.5x Speedup For Reading Directories
Merged on Monday were the EROFS file-system updates for Linux 6.17. EROFS continues to be a common read-only file-system choice for some mobile/embedded devices as well as container use-cases...
2025-07-29 05:31
Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages
Firefox Add-Ons are a crucial element of this open source browser, and finding good ones that work well, important. A design change aims to help. You're reading Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
2025-07-29 02:25
GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers
GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 kernel is now available for download. This release is based on Linux kernel 6.16 and it’s targeted at those who seek 100% freedom for their personal computers. The post GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 Kernel Is Now Available for Software F...
2025-07-28 22:50
Contribute to the Anaconda Installer DNF 5 Test Days, July 28 – August 1
The Anaconda team have done some great changes over the last few Fedora Linux releasese. For Fedora Linux 43, they would like your help testing their latest changes – switching Anaconda installer to DNF5 and removing DNF modularity support from Anaco...
2025-07-28 22:20
Audacious 4.5 Open-Source Audio Player Adds Playback History Plugin, Winamp 2.9 Skin
Audacious 4.5 open-source media player arrives with a new Playback History plugin, Winamp 2.9 skin, improved PipeWire output plugin, and more. Here's what's new! The post Audacious 4.5 Open-Source Audio Player Adds Playback History Plugin, Winamp 2.9 ...
2025-07-28 21:48
Linux Kernel 6.16 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Linux kernel 6.16 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more. Here’s what’s new! The post Linux Kernel 6.16 Officially Relea...
2025-07-28 20:26