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Ubuntu 25.04 Yaru Theme Update Brings New Icons
With Ubuntu 25.04 feature freeze now in effect the final licks of polish and paint have begun landing — including an update to Ubuntu’s Yaru theme. The Yaru theme is composed of a modified GTK4/libadwaita stylesheet, GNOME Shell theme, icon pack, a...
2025-03-14 17:57
Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15
Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes,...
2025-03-14 16:43
What is System Hardening? Essential Checklists from OS to Applications
Hardening a system aims to decrease its exposure to make it difficult to hack, and to lessen the potential collateral damage in the event of a compromise.
2025-03-14 14:39
Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface
Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system...
2025-03-14 14:22
Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 "Genio 350" Support In Linux 6.15
On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this...
2025-03-14 11:24
GCC 15 Deprecates Support For The ESA/390 Architecture
In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...
2025-03-14 10:15
Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang
Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...
2025-03-14 10:03
Glibc's Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations
The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations...
2025-03-14 09:00
Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler
Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...
2025-03-14 07:05
Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS
While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-sou...
2025-03-14 06:40
IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers
IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released o...
2025-03-14 06:22
Bodhi Linux Shows Off New Theme, Revived Modules
A ‘fresh new look’ is heading to Bodhi Linux, the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution built around the Moksha desktop, a fork of Enlightenment 17. Noting that the look of recent releases has leaned towards the dark side—no, not that one, Darth—the ...
2025-03-13 22:10
Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7
The Zstandard (Zstd) compression code sadly hasn't been regularly synced with the latest upstream Linux kernel sources but a patch posted this evening goes ahead and syncs the in-kernel Zstd code against the Zstd 1.5.7 state...
2025-03-13 20:55
Shotcut 25.03 Beta Released For Advancing This Free Software Video Editor
Shotcut 25.03 Beta is out today as the newest test release for this open-source video editing solution...
2025-03-13 20:27
DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games
DXVK 2.6 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for several games. The post DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-03-13 17:40
DXVK 2.6 Released With NVIDIA Reflex Support, Numerous Improvements
Released today ahead of a potential Proton 10.0 release for re-basing Valve's Steam Play tech atop the recent Wine 10.0 release, DXVK 2.6 is out today as the newest iteration of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for enhan...
2025-03-13 15:20
Microsoft Releases March 2025 Update To Azure Linux 3.0
Microsoft is out today with their newest monthly update to their in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux, with all available package and security updates through this month's Patch Tuesday...
2025-03-13 11:50
Effortless observability for Django applications
Observability is critical for web operations to ensure that the application is working as expected and to identify any potential issues. However, setting up observability has traditionally been challenging because it can take hours to set up all the in...
2025-03-13 11:47
Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL
With today's Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the "Clover" OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern, much more actively maintained, and all-around a bet...
2025-03-13 10:10
NVIDIA RTX Remix 1.0 Released With DXVK DLSS4 & Neural Radiance Cache
NVIDIA's RTX Remix software for remastering classic games with a variety of visual enhancements reached version 1.0 today with some additional big improvements...
2025-03-13 09:43