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SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance
SiFive recently sent over a review sample of the much anticipated HiFive Premier P550 developer board, their newest RISC-V creation featuring four RISC-V cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of ...
2025-03-06 09:10
Canonical and Renesas Announce Partnership to Accelerate Innovation in Enterprise AI
London, UK – Mar 4, 2025 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation, a global leader in semiconductor solutions, has joined Canonical’s silicon partner program  to deliver cutting-edge solutions ta...
2025-03-06 09:00
PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features
Wim Taymans of Red Hat today released PipeWire 1.4 as the newest major update for this leading open-source software to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other solutions on the modern Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams in a very excellent wa...
2025-03-06 08:40
Blender's Vulkan Renderer Is Making Great Progress To Production Readiness This Year
With the release of Blender 4.3 last November an experimental Vulkan back-end was added and it continues to be improved upon for modernizing this 3D creation suite for digital artists and serving a variety of other purposes. The upcoming Blender 4.4 re...
2025-03-06 07:00
FreeBSD Continues Working On 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi & Other Laptop Improvements
The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops a...
2025-03-06 06:46
FEX 2503 Brings Fixes & Multi-Block By Default For x86_64 Linux Binaries On ARM64
FEX 2503 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that enables the ability to run Linux x86_64 binaries on Linux ARM64 (AArch64) hosts...
2025-03-06 06:25
Mold 2.37 Linker Preps For Intel APX
Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.37 today as the newest feature update to this high performance linker as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...
2025-03-06 06:14
AMD Announces "Instella" Fully Open-Source 3B Language Models
Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella as their new fully open 3B parameter language models...
2025-03-05 19:13
Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out
Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers, a modern GTK4/libadwaita fork1 of the former, in Ubuntu 25.04—today, the swap was made official. Papers is a fork of Evince that is actively maintained and ma...
2025-03-05 18:27
Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected
After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporti...
2025-03-05 13:09
Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations
The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor...
2025-03-05 10:06
AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance
Last week AMD formally announced the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards that will begin shipping tomorrow at $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for the RX 9070 XT. Today the review embargo is lifted so we can now share Linux performance benchmarks ...
2025-03-05 09:00
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance
In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today's embargo lift, I've also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards. Here is a look at some initial GPU compute bench...
2025-03-05 09:00
4 cool new projects to try in Copr for March 2025
This article series takes a closer look at interesting projects that recently landed in Copr. Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects with a wide variety of purposes, targeting diverse groups of users....
2025-03-05 08:00
Making Vulkan More Of A "Joy To Use" Discussed At Vulkanised 2025
In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month's Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and m...
2025-03-05 06:57
FreeDesktop.org GitLab Will Be Down For Up To One Week Due To Cloud Migration
The FreeDesktop.org GitLab instance that is heavily relied upon for the development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, and many other Linux desktop projects will be down for up to one week later this month due to its cloud migration...
2025-03-05 06:40
Linux 6.15 Preparing Support For The XP-Pen Artist Pro 19, A Big 4K Drawing Tablet
Linux already supports a number of XP-Pen drawing tablets while the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to include support for another one: the XP-Pen Artist Pro 19. This XP-Pen Artist Pro 19 is a big, 4K resolution display drawing tablet that retails fo...
2025-03-05 06:30
More Apple SoC DeviceTree Additions Being Upstreamed For Linux 6.15
Sven Peter continues work on upstreaming more of the Apple SoC support to the mainline Linux kernel. On the DeviceTree side following the DT support for Apple T2 SoCs sent out last month, another set of updates were submitted this week ahead of the Lin...
2025-03-05 06:13
Mozilla Thunderbird 136 Released with New “Appearance” Panel in Settings
Mozilla Thunderbird 136 open-source email client is now available for download with a new "Appearance" settings UI and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Thunderbird 136 Released with New “Appearance” Panel in Settings appeared firs...
2025-03-04 23:23