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Argon ONE Up Laptop Runs on a Raspberry Pi CM5
Argon ONE UP is a 14-inch laptop powered by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. It boasts ports, expansion ports, and 40 pin GPIO add-on. Details inside. You're reading Argon ONE Up Laptop Runs on a Raspberry Pi CM5, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
2025-07-21 23:14
KDE Plasma Adds Rounded Bottom Window Corners to Apps
KDE Plasma 6.5 will automatically round the bottom corners of Breeze-decorated windows, adding a feature that's been asked for by KDE fans for years. You're reading KDE Plasma Adds Rounded Bottom Window Corners to Apps, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do...
2025-07-21 21:35
Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa
Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...
2025-07-21 18:05
Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Groups, Reduces Memory Use on Linux
Firefox 141 is out, featuring AI-powered tab groups, lower memory usage on Linux, a new unit converter, and expanded PiP support. See what's new. You're reading Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Groups, Reduces Memory Use on Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...
2025-07-21 17:53
Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Grouping, Reduces Memory Use on Linux
Firefox 141 is out, featuring AI-powered tab groups, lower memory usage on Linux, a new unit converter, and expanded PiP support. See what's new. You're reading Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Grouping, Reduces Memory Use on Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu...
2025-07-21 17:53
AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT
While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as...
2025-07-21 16:50
NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helpin...
2025-07-21 11:54
AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2
With the Mesa 25.2 open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics driver code having been branched last week ahead of its stable release in August, I carried out some fresh benchmarks on AMD's exciting Strix Halo platform using the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with R...
2025-07-21 10:30
Firefox 141 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post Firefox 141 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not...
2025-07-21 10:03
EROFS Implementing Metadata Compression For Even Smaller Image Sizes
The EROFS read-only file-system ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window has been working on metadata compression support to allow for even smaller container image sizes but at the cost of higher I/O latency...
2025-07-21 08:46
The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History
Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance --...
2025-07-21 07:00
LLVM Begins Landing Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" Support
The LLVM compiler toolchain has begun upstreaming support for Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" as a new means of handling ThinLTO compilations for leveraging link-time optimizations...
2025-07-21 06:30
Around 8% Of Debian Source Packages Are Building Against Rust Libraries
At last week's DebConf25 Debian developer conference in France, Rust packaging within Debian Linux was talked about by Fabian Grünbichler. There an interesting statistic was shared around the growing expanse of Rust usage within Debian and the open-so...
2025-07-21 06:18
HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements
HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine. HarfBuzz 11.3 brings some nice performance improvements for this text shaping engine that is used by many prominent software programs and toolkits like Goog...
2025-07-21 06:00
Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux
The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...
2025-07-21 05:55
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 20th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 20th, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.4.3, Blender 4.5 LTS, VirtualBox 7.1.12, GStreamer 1.26.4, Wireshark 4.4.8, Rescuezilla 2.6.1, LibreOffice 25.2.5, Calibre 8.7, and more. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundu...
2025-07-21 02:39
Screenshot Tool Gradia Adds Code Snippet Generator, Snap Install
Gradia 1.7 adds code snippet generator, more text tool outlines, image rotation, and arrives on the Canonical Snap Store for easier installation on Ubuntu. You're reading Screenshot Tool Gradia Adds Code Snippet Generator, Snap Install, a blog post fro...
2025-07-20 21:28
Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape"
The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now availablr for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week...
2025-07-20 18:51
TopGrade: One Command to Upgrade All The Things
Keeping your Ubuntu install up-to-date isn’t difficult, even from the command line – but once you begin to install packages from other sources, like Snap Store, Flathub and pip, you end up needing to type out a veritable shopping list of commands t...
2025-07-20 16:59
This Tool Upgrades Everything on Ubuntu with One Command
Skip running multiple commands to update packages on Ubuntu with TopGrade, a CLI tool which upgrades everything, from apt to pip, with a single command. You're reading This Tool Upgrades Everything on Ubuntu with One Command, a blog post from OMG! Ubun...
2025-07-20 16:59