Linux

4 Critical Security Flaws Patched in VMware Workstation Pro
Virtualisation choices on Linux are, as I’m sure you’re know, varied – even more so since VMware made its Workstation Pro software entirely free to download and use on Windows and Linux, even for commercial purposes, no license key needed. This w...
2025-07-18 22:59
Charting a path forward for global collaboration in open source AI: Key takeaways from the GOSIM open source AI strategy forum
The open source AI ecosystem has reached a pivotal moment. There are now almost 2 million models on the Hugging Face Hub and open models, including a growing number of small but mighty ones, are rapidly catching up to proprietary alternatives in perfo...
2025-07-18 19:14
Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux
The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just f...
2025-07-18 18:01
Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc7
As we await to see what Linus Torvalds will end up doing about the Bcachefs file-system come Linux 6.17, for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle he continues to honor the Bcachefs pull requests containing fixes...
2025-07-18 16:44
Ubuntu 25.10 Shrinks its Install Footprint on Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu 25.10 uses a minimal default install on Raspberry Pi, reducing install size. See what's changed and why the move makes sense for developers. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Shrinks its Install Footprint on Raspberry Pi, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu....
2025-07-18 15:03
Ubuntu 25.10 Shrinks its Raspberry Pi Install Footprint
Ubuntu 25.10 uses a minimal default install on Raspberry Pi, reducing install size. See what's changed and why the move makes sense for developers. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Shrinks its Raspberry Pi Install Footprint, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do...
2025-07-18 15:03
Protecting against rogue devices in openSUSE with Full Disk Encryption
openSUSE have now multiple ways to configure a Full Disk Encryption (FDE) installation. A very secure and easy way (YaST2) of doing this is via user space tools, as we described multiple times (like here, here, or here). This solution is based on the s...
2025-07-18 15:00
Fde Rogue Devices
Protecting against rogue devices in openSUSE with Full Disk Encryption openSUSE have now multiple ways to configure a Full Disk Encryption (FDE) installation. A very secure and easy way (YaST2) of doing this is via user space tools, as we described mul...
2025-07-18 15:00
Calibre 8.7 Adds Support for Generating Page Number Files on MTP-Based Kindles
Calibre 8.7 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with updated Kindle, Kobo, and MTP drivers, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 8.7 Adds Support for Generating Page Number Files on MTP-Based Kindles appeared fir...
2025-07-18 13:42
Ubuntu 25.10 Raspberry Pi Images Will Be Much Leaner
The Ubuntu 25.10 images geared for the Raspberry Pi will be much more lean than current Ubuntu Linux releases for the Raspberry Pi thanks to changes merged this week...
2025-07-18 13:15
AMD Announces ROCm-LS, hipCIM As Port Of NVIDIA's cuCIM
Back in May was the announcement by AMD of ROCm-DS as a new toolkit geared for real-world data science problems with various helpers to accelerate data processing on Instinct accelerators. AMD today is complementing ROCm-DS by announcing ROCm-LS and hi...
2025-07-18 12:00
Intel Compute Runtime 25.27.34303.5 Brings Support For Wildcat Lake & BMG G31
Intel is out today with its monthly feature update to the Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL API support on Windows and Linux systems. This month there is new hardware support, more performance optimi...
2025-07-18 10:43
Imagination Kernel Graphics Driver Being Extended To AM62P/AM67A/J722S SoCs
The open-source and upstream Imagination Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver for supporting their modern graphics IP and pairing with their PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa is now being extended to work on the TI AM62P, AM67A, and J7...
2025-07-18 08:30
Servo Web Engine Further Tuning Performance, Screen Reader & Other New Features
The Servo open-source web layout engine continues advancing with its demo Servoshell and continued work around making it suitable for embedding into other software. The Servo project this morning published their latest monthly status update to inform t...
2025-07-18 06:34
Intel QATlib 25.08 Brings Hugepages Support & Other Improvements
Intel engineers yesterday released QATlib 25.08 as the first new update in nearly one year for this QuickAssist Technology library. Intel QuickAssist allows hardware-accelerated offloading of various security authentication and compression operations f...
2025-07-18 06:19
AMD Bringing SmartMux Support To Linux 6.17 For Better Hybrid GPU Laptop Support
For the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle AMD already queued fixes for GPU compute on some older AMD hardware, improved debugging support for AMDGPU, and other enhancements. Sent out today was a final batch of feature changes for AMDGPU/AMDKFD expected ...
2025-07-17 20:00
New App to Compress Video to Target File Sizes on Ubuntu
New Python video compressor Constrict uses FFmpeg to compress videos to target file sizes on Ubuntu. Simple GTK4 GUI now available on Flathub. You're reading New App to Compress Video to Target File Sizes on Ubuntu, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not...
2025-07-17 19:00
LLVM 21.1-rc1 Released For Testing: Better RISC-V Support, AMD GFX1250 & NVIDIA GB10
The first release candidate of LLVM 21.1 is now available for testing, which under their modern versioning scheme will represent the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack...
2025-07-17 17:01
LibreOffice 25.2.5 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 63 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 25.2.5 is now available for download as the fourth point release to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite with 63 bug fixes. The post LibreOffice 25.2.5 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 63 Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to5...
2025-07-17 15:40
Linux Receiving Fix For AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Producing Lots Of Log Spam
For those using an AMD Radeon RX 500 "Polaris" graphics card on Linux and routinely suspend/resume your system, going into the Linux 6.16 kernel and then to be back-ported to the stable series is a fix where the AMDGPU driver could end up producing a l...
2025-07-17 14:34