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Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer

Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling...

2025-07-16 06:06

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Kiro, Amazon-Backed AI-Powered IDE, Enters Public Preview

Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now in public preview. Learn about its "spec-driven" workflow and VS Code compatibility. You're reading Kiro, Amazon-Backed AI-Powered IDE, Enters Public Preview, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu...

2025-07-15 22:59

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Kiro, Amazon-Backed Agentic IDE, Enters Public Preview

Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now in public preview. Learn about its "spec-driven" workflow and VS Code compatibility. You're reading Kiro, Amazon-Backed Agentic IDE, Enters Public Preview, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. D...

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VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and Guests

VirtualBox 7.1.12 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with improved support for Linux kernel 6.16 and other changes. Here's what's new! The post VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and ...

2025-07-15 21:24

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing ...

2025-07-15 20:46

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Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX ...

2025-07-15 20:22

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Blender 4.5 LTS Released with ‘Full Vulkan Support’

The new Blender 4.5 LTS release features major improvements, including full Vulkan support, faster startup, new Geometry Nodes, HDR and more. You're reading Blender 4.5 LTS Released with ‘Full Vulkan Support’, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not ...

2025-07-15 17:22

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Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the ...

2025-07-15 15:15

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Blender 4.5 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics App Makes the Vulkan Backend Stable

Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D graphics and modeling software is now available for download with various new featuers and improvements. Here's what's new! The post Blender 4.5 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics App Makes the Vulkan Backend Stable appeared fi...

2025-07-15 14:54

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Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations

Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...

2025-07-15 11:49

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KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Improves the Automatic Screen Scale Calculator on Wayland

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvments. The post KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Improves the Automatic Screen Scale Calculator on Wayland appeared...

2025-07-15 11:39

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Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for suppo...

2025-07-15 11:30

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LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched

The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...

2025-07-15 10:40

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GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...

2025-07-15 10:23

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Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake grap...

2025-07-15 08:48

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Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned

The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he...

2025-07-15 06:38

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LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency

Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin "BTC" as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software off...

2025-07-15 06:29

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Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux

As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel...

2025-07-15 06:09

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RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)

Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games ...

2025-07-15 05:55

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Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on the Air

KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential. You're reading Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on the Air, a blog post from OMG! Ubu...

2025-07-15 01:57

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