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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
Linux 6.17 Will Let Multi-Device Filesystems Better Cope With Losing A Disk
The VFS changes were merged a short time ago to the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. Among the notable changes there is a patch that will allow file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs to better handle losing a disk in their built-in RAID/multi-device cap...
2025-07-28 20:20
Testing New Linux Kernels on Ubuntu is About to Get Easier
Canonical announces a new strategy for Ubuntu development releases, now offering upstream Linux kernels for earlier testing and (hopefully) better stability. You're reading Testing New Linux Kernels on Ubuntu is About to Get Easier, a blog post from OM...
2025-07-28 18:38
GNU C Library 2.42 Released With SFrame Support, Newer Intel CPU Detection
Following yesterday's release of GNU Binutils 2.45, the GNU C Library 2.42 released today...
2025-07-28 17:00
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Launches Subscription Service For "Premium Desktop Experience"
The Hyprland Wayland compositor that is popular with some Linux enthusiasts today formally announced Hyprperks, its new paid subscription service offering a "premium desktop experience" and other benefits...
2025-07-28 16:01
Linux 6.17 Preps Many Networking Changes From Broadcom 800G To More WiFi 7
Jakub Kicinski on Sunday sent out the big set of networking subsystem updates heading into the Linux 6.17 kernel. From high-end enterprise and data center hardware down to consumer Ethernet and WiFi devices, the Linux networking space continues to be a...
2025-07-28 14:41
Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel
With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version. But we await to see how Linus Torvalds will respond...
2025-07-28 13:10
Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads
With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the "-march=native" compiler optimizations for the kern...
2025-07-28 11:46
Ubuntu To Keep Up-To-Date With Linux Kernel Versions During Development
Last year Canonical established a policy to always ship the latest Linux kernel version at Ubuntu release time which for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 will mean shipping with Linux v6.17. But during the Ubuntu development cycles they typically don't aggres...
2025-07-28 10:10
Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle
While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power management. The lack of runtime PM has meant the GPU clock remains at full-s...
2025-07-28 09:02
Planet News Roundup
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator from July 21 to 27. Some of the most recent blogs openSUSE Conference 2025, updates ...
2025-07-28 09:00
Intel QAT Accelerators Being Demoted On Linux By FSCRYPT: Bug Prone & Slow
Intel's accelerator efforts in recent generations of Xeon processors have been challenging to say the least. From limited software support and configuration obstacles to some current-generation accelerators not being safe for VM use due to security iss...
2025-07-28 07:12
Rockchip NPU Driver "Rocket" Expected By Linux 6.18, Mesa 25.3 Brings User-Space Code
The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver "Rocket" developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernel. The Rocket Gallium3D driver was also merged today for Mesa 25.3 in the user-space code for their AI accelerator support...
2025-07-28 06:40
Linux 6.17 Power Management Refines Async Suspend/Resume, Adds More Intel Hardware
Among the number of early pull requests submitted in advance for the Linux 6.17 merge window were all the power management updates as well as to related areas like ACPI and thermal control drivers...
2025-07-28 06:24
Ubuntu 25.10 TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption Will Be Considered Experimental
For the past two years Ubuntu developers have been talking about adding TPM-based full disk encryption to the installer for those wanting to leverage their system's Trusted Platform Module 2.0 capabilities to enhance security. It looks like for Ubuntu ...
2025-07-28 06:07
Intel Panther Lake Perf Integration Ready For Linux 6.17
The Linux support for Intel's next-generation Panther Lake SoCs appears to be largely set with Linux 6.16 ahead of the Core Ultra Series 3 laptops debuting in the coming months. There are though a few stragglers of Panther Lake support such as the perf...
2025-07-28 05:55
GNU Linux-libre 6.16 Fights Firmware In Nouveau, NOVA, Ath12k & Other Drivers
Following the Linux 6.16 kernel release from Sunday evening, GNU Linux-libre 6.16-gnu is now available for that kernel downstream that strips out driver/kernel code dependent upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load proprietary ke...
2025-07-28 05:40
Linux 6.16 Released with OpenVPN Speed Boost, 5-Level Paging + More
Linux 6.16 improves OpenVPN speeds, expands 5-level paging, and delivers a 'stupendous' Ext4 performance boost - and a fair bit more. Highlights inside. You're reading Linux 6.16 Released with OpenVPN Speed Boost, 5-Level Paging + More, a blog post fro...
2025-07-28 02:12
Kapitano (Linux Antivirus Scanner) Developer Abandons Ship
Kapitano, a Linux virus scanning app using ClamAV has been discontinued by its developer due to all-too-common factor in open source development: bad faith. You're reading Kapitano (Linux Antivirus Scanner) Developer Abandons Ship, a blog post from OMG...
2025-07-27 18:31