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ROS Noetic is EOL – take action to maintain fleet security
As of May 2025, the Robot Operating System (ROS) Noetic Ninjemys officially reached its end of life (EOL). First released in 2020 as the final ROS (1) distribution, ROS Noetic has been the default choice for thousands of developers building on Ubuntu 2...
2025-08-08 15:01
Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs
There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is now set to an or...
2025-08-08 14:55
Bcachefs Maintainer Comments On The LKML While Waiting To See What Happens
We still don't know what's going to happen for Bcachefs in the Linux 6.17 kernel even with the merge window set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release. Linus Torvalds commented over one month ago that they would be parting ways for Linux 6.17...
2025-08-08 14:36
AMD Linux Driver Prepares For Radeon RDNA4 "Kicker"
A few new firmware files were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository for supporting a new GFX12.0.1 (RDNA4) "Kicker" graphics processor. There was also an AMDGPU kernel graphics driver patch that just landed as well in Linux 6.17 for the...
2025-08-08 12:25
Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48
Tails 7.0 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for public testing with majpr updates and new features. Here's what to expect! The post Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48 appeared fi...
2025-08-08 10:56
DDR5-6400 vs. DDR5-4800 R-DIMM Performance For Threadripper 9980X / 9970X CPUs
Last week the Threadripper 9000 series began shipping and as shown in our launch-day Linux testing there was stunning performance with the 32-core Threadripper 9970X and 64-core Threadripper 9980X processors. Beyond the improvements thanks to the Zen 5...
2025-08-08 10:40
AMD ROCm 6.4.3 Released With A Few Fixes
While we eagerly await the release of ROCm 7.0, ROCm 6.4.3 is out today as the newest point release to the ROCm 6.4 open-source GPU compute stack...
2025-08-08 10:25
LVFS Introducing Fair-Use Quota: Asking Major Vendors To Pay Or Contribute Code
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) is rolling out a "fair use" quota where they will be asking the major hardware vendors (OEMs) to sponsor the project or contribute developer resources for the biggest users that rely on LVFS/Fwupd for serving sy...
2025-08-08 10:05
GStreamer 1.26.5 Adds JPEG XS Support Videorate and Imagefreeze
GStreamer 1.26.5 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed! The post GStreamer 1.26.5 Adds JPEG XS Support Videorate and Imagefreeze appeared first on 9to5Linux - ...
2025-08-08 08:57
RADV Implements Triangle Pair Compression For AMD RDNA4 GPUs
The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics processors...
2025-08-08 08:36
Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo Devices
Calibre 8.8 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with an updated Kobo driver that supports the latest Tolino firmware and other chnages. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo De...
2025-08-08 08:27
Kernel 6.16 Test Week: August 10 – 16
Join us to test the 6.16 kernel for Fedora Linux 43 during August 10 – 16! What is a test week? Test weeks are organised by the Fedora QA team per release cycle and are a great way to get involved in developing the upcoming Fedora Linux release. Inst...
2025-08-08 08:00
PCIe Improvements With Linux 6.17: Intel Panther Lake, Qualcomm, Sophgo SG2044 & More
The PCI changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.17 merge window. There is new PCIe controller support and some other additions worth mentioning with the new PCI feature code...
2025-08-08 06:42
FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding
Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land. Hitting FFmpeg Git today are some Vulkan Video additions...
2025-08-08 06:20
GCC 15.2 Released With More Than 123 Bugs Fixed
Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety of bug fixes back-ported...
2025-08-08 06:08
LACT 0.8.1 Linux GPU Control Panel Improves Voltage/Clock Controls For Older AMD GPUs
LACT 0.8.1 is out with a few important changes for this open-source Linux GPU control application that is written in Rust and rendered using GTK...
2025-08-08 00:00
MariaDB Community Server 12.0 Released As GA With Greater Oracle Compatibility
MariaDB today announced the general availability "GA" release of the MariaDB Community Server 12.0 release. This first MariaDB 12 release brings many exciting enhancements over MariaDB 11 for this open-source database originally derived from MySQL...
2025-08-07 20:13
IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 Released with Offline AI Code Completion & Java 25
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, adding offline AI-powered code completion for Java and support for Java 25, the next long-term support (LTS) release. There’s also enhanced Spring debugging tools, Maven 4 support, and the usual glut of fe...
2025-08-07 18:52
IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 Released with Offline AI Code Completion
JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 with offline AI code completion, Java 25 support, Spring tools, and Maven 4 enhancements. You're reading IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 Released with Offline AI Code Completion, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
2025-08-07 18:52
New AMD Zen 6 Linux Patches Posted - Confirming Up To 16 Memory Channels
Following the recent Linux kernel patch adding the AMD Zen 6 synthetic feature flag I suspected more AMD Zen 6 kernel patches would begin flowing... Sure enough, two new patches today noting some new model IDs in the Family 1Ah family as well as confir...
2025-08-07 18:49