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Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan AMD Anti-Lag Support
An exciting addition landing into the Mesa 25.3 codebase today is support for AMD's Vulkan anti-lag extension, VK_AMD_anti_lag...
2025-07-24 06:49
AMD RadeonSI Driver Enables OpenGL Sparse Texture Support For RDNA4 GPUs
Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his latest set of 16 patches into Mesa 25.3-devel for enhancing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. Notable here is getting OpenGL sparse textures working on the latest Radeon RX 9000 series...
2025-07-24 06:41
The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64
One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems...
2025-07-24 06:25
Thunderbird 141 Adds ‘Archive’ Notification Action + More
MZLA Technologies Corporation has released an update to open-source email client Thunderbird. Thunderbird 141 brings those using the monthly releases small set of improvements, none large enough to peel folks away from Extended Support Maintenance (ESR...
2025-07-23 22:59
Thunderbird 141 Adds ‘Archive’ Notification Action & Fixes
Thunderbird 141 brings minor changes to the email client, including a new notification action, OpenPGP key warnings, and better Exchange login support. You're reading Thunderbird 141 Adds ‘Archive’ Notification Action & Fixes, a blog post from OMG!...
2025-07-23 22:59
Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs
Timur Kristóf as a contractor on Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team is known for his work on the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler but recently he's been working on some improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver. A big feat he's be...
2025-07-23 20:32
GNOME Foundry Taking Shape As "An IDE In A Box" With CLI Tooling
Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives by GNOME developer Christian Hergert has been on Foundry, a new "IDE in a box" of sorts and with CLI tooli...
2025-07-23 16:38
GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source, But Who Should Really Pay?
GitHub is urging the EU to create a €350m fund for open source maintenance. But as Big Tech profits, should taxpayers be the ones to pay the tab? You're reading GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source, But Who Should Really Pay?, a blog post from OMG...
2025-07-23 16:23
GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source
GitHub is urging the EU to create a €350m fund for open source maintenance. But as Big Tech profits, should taxpayers be the ones to pay the tab? You're reading GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce e...
2025-07-23 16:23
AMD Strix Point Linux Performance Comparison One Year After Launch
How time flies... This week already marks one year since the debut of AMD's Zen 5 Strix Point laptop processors with the likes of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 that also rolled out the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics. In marking one year that S...
2025-07-23 14:50
Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer
Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components. In the past month Wayback has been off to a quick start with a goal of being production-ready next year and has also already became a project under t...
2025-07-23 14:46
systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, in...
2025-07-23 14:00
Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features
The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features...
2025-07-23 12:00
Blender Now Supports Properly Importing & Exporting HDR Videos
In addition to Blender 5.0 supporting HDR on Linux when using the Vulkan API and with Wayland, another important high dynamic range (HDR) milestone landed this week into Blender: the ability to both import and export HDR videos...
2025-07-23 11:47
Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated
Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series...
2025-07-23 10:41
Urgency to Switch from Windows 10 Builds
Install Linux Before It’s Too Late The openSUSE Project is part of a growing coalition of open-source advocates urging Microsoft users to install a Linux operating system as Microsoft prepares to end support for Windows 10 this October, and urgency t...
2025-07-23 09:00
Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17
With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching. Btrfs maintainer and SUSE engineer David Sterba sent out the Btrfs pull request already of new feature code for this co...
2025-07-23 08:55
OVMF Debug Log Driver Slated For Linux 6.17 To Help Analyze UEFI VM Boot Issues
For those making use of Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) such as for UEFI booting of VMs with KVM+QEMU, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is set to offer a convenient new driver to help in debugging the system boot when needed...
2025-07-23 08:40
Pogocache 1.0 Released: Claims Better Performance Than Memcache, Valkey & Redis
Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and...
2025-07-23 08:11
What is practice leadership?
Introducing engineering practice leadership at Canonical
2025-07-23 07:42