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Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX

As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) prepa...

2025-07-27 17:31

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KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Low Ink Notifications to Avoid Duff Printing

I don't remember the last time I used a printer, let alone owned one, but I do remember printer ink running out mid-print being a major frustration. You're reading KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Low Ink Notifications to Avoid Duff Printing, a blog post from OMG...

2025-07-27 16:37

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KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Low Printer Ink Notifications

I don't remember the last time I used a printer, let alone owned one, but I do remember printer ink running out mid-print being a major frustration. You're reading KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Low Printer Ink Notifications, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do no...

2025-07-27 16:37

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AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16

The modern AMD Kernel graphics driver consisting of AMDGPU, the AMDKFD compute code, and associated infrastructure continues to easily be the largest mainline open-source driver. With the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting as stable as soon as later today, the...

2025-07-27 11:26

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Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs

In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...

2025-07-27 09:55

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New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing,...

2025-07-27 08:37

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Shotcut 25.07 Video Editor Introduces Speech to Text Model Downloader

Shotcut 25.07 open-source video editor is now available for download with new Speech to Text model downloader and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Shotcut 25.07 Video Editor Introduces Speech to Text Model Downloader appeared first on 9to5Li...

2025-07-27 07:41

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GNU Binutils 2.45 Released With Continued Work Around SFrame Stack Tracing

GNU Binutils 2.45 was released on Sunday morning as the newest version of this set of open-source binary tools...

2025-07-27 06:43

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AMD SEV Optimizations Ready For Linux 6.17 Plus A 10x Improvement For Intel TDX

There are a few AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization improvements on the way for the Linux 6.17 kernel worth noting...

2025-07-27 06:29

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Shotcut 25.07 Video Editor Brings Numerous Improvements

Shotcut 25.07 is out today as the newest feature release for this prominent open-source and cross-platform video editing solution...

2025-07-27 06:04

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DebConf25 closes in Brest and DebConf26 announced

On Saturday 19 July 2025, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close. Over 443 attendees representing 50 countries from around the world came together for a combined 169 events (including some which took place during the ...

2025-07-26 23:50

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Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.99 ...

2025-07-26 20:34

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Qualcomm Prepares IFPC Feature For Adreno X1-85 GPU With The Snapdragon X Laptops

This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops...

2025-07-26 12:37

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New RVA23 RISC-V Chips are Coming Sooner than You Think

Ubuntu's pivot to the RVA23 RISC-V profile has caused concern, but new hardware is on the way - and the upcoming chips more than justify the move. You're reading New RVA23 RISC-V Chips are Coming Sooner than You Think, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do ...

2025-07-26 12:29

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Linux 6.17 Sound Code Prepares For Upcoming AMD Hardware

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted already the sound code feature changes ready for Linux 6.17...

2025-07-26 09:47

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FFmpeg 8.0 Preparing For Release In August With Many Great Features

We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-used open-source software...

2025-07-26 07:01

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Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows

One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software. In recent times that NTFS3 driver has been seeing occasional fixe...

2025-07-26 06:44

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Linux 6.17 To Support Arm's BRBE

The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture updates have been submitted ahead of the imminent Linux 6.17 merge window...

2025-07-26 06:33

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Intel oneDNN 3.9 Making More Preparations For Xe3, Nova Lake & Diamond Rapids

Released on Friday was a new version of the oneDNN deep neural network library maintained by Intel and the UXL Foundation. This library used by various deep learning applications continues preparing for upcoming Intel CPUs and GPUs...

2025-07-26 06:19

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KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Notifications For Low Printer Ink Levels

One week ago in the KDE Plasma land it was talking about rounded bottom corners for windows by default while this week in the KDE Plasma space is another long overdue feature: notifications for Plasma around low printer ink cartridge levels. The upcomi...

2025-07-26 00:00

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