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Cloud-native telecom infrastructure with Canonical Kubernetes at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025
At this year’s Mobile World Congress, we’re excited to showcase the capability of Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support), which brings up to 12 years of support  and security maintenance to Kubernetes.  Available via Ubuntu Pro, Canonical K...
2025-02-25 11:30
AMD Ryzen 9000 vs. Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake On Linux For Q1-2025 In ~400 Benchmarks
For those wondering how the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" series and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" desktop processors are battling it out on Linux, here are some fresh benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux with the latest software updates as well as the ...
2025-02-25 10:40
Eight New Security Vulnerabilities Reported Against The X.Org Server & XWayland
Eight new security issues have now been made public around the X.Org Server codebase that also impact XWayland...
2025-02-25 10:39
Valkey container image – securely designed, compliant, and long term supported (LTS)
Canonical has published best-in-class OCI-compliant Valkey container images that feature enhanced security. These images are based on Ubuntu LTS packages, which are supported, maintained, and hardened by Canonical for up to 10 years and include a softw...
2025-02-25 10:00
Rust-Written Zlib-rs Is Not Only Safer But Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations
Zlib-rs as a Rust programming language implementation of the Zlib file format for better safety is now beginning to outperform the C implementations of the widely-used Zlib...
2025-02-25 06:47
Linux 6.15 Intel Xe Driver Enabling PXP HWDRM, Survivability Mode & GPU + VRAM Temperatures
Complementing yesterday's initial set of Intel graphics driver feature patches planned for Linux 6.15, a drm-xe-next pull request was also submitted to DRM-Next containing a lot of new feature code for the modern Xe kernel Direct Rendering Manager driv...
2025-02-25 06:27
GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support
As an exciting late addition to the GNOME 48 codebase ahead of its stable release in mid-March, the Wayland color management "wp_color_management_v1" protocol support has been merged!..
2025-02-25 06:07
MythTV 35 Released For This Once Widely-Used Open-Source DVR/PVR Software
The MythTV open-source project is now 22 years old for being this PVR/DVR software for TVs and home theaters. While PVRs/DVRs aren't nearly as popular as they were in the pre Internet streaming era, MythTV continues forging ahead and MythTV 35 is now a...
2025-02-25 05:53
Plank Reloaded is a Desktop Dock App for Cinnamon
At one time, Linux dock apps were a plentiful species, with innovative ‘panel painters’ like GNOME Do/Docky to unashamed bling-kings AWN, DockBarX and Cairo Dock. Yet it was the modest Plank which stayed the course and outlived them. Thing is, the ...
2025-02-25 02:56
Plank Reloaded: Desktop Dock App for Cinnamon
At one time, Linux dock apps were a plentiful species, with innovative ‘panel painters’ like GNOME Do/Docky to unashamed bling-kings AWN, DockBarX and Cairo Dock. Yet it was the modest Plank which stayed the course and outlived them. Thing is, the ...
2025-02-25 02:56
Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 LTS, and More
Armbian 25.2 distribution for ARM devices is now available for download with support for new boards, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, as well as various improvements. Here’s what’s new! The post Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 L...
2025-02-24 19:39
Canonical at Embedded World 2025
Embedded World is just around the corner; 11 to 13 March.  Featuring:  Embedded World is the essential global gathering for the embedded community.  We invite you to visit Booth 4-160 in Hall 4 to discover how Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, can...
2025-02-24 18:37
Armbian 25.2 Released With New Boards Supported, Kernel Upgrades
Armbian 25.2 is now available as the newest feature release for this Debian-based Linux distribution focused on providing a great ARM experience as well as a growing number of RISC-V boards...
2025-02-24 17:05
The Quiet Revolution: AI, Critical Thinking, and a Home for Technical Humanities
I spent over a decade teaching college English before moving into tech, so I’ve always been fascinated by how we reason. In literary analysis, we dissect a text’s assumptions, language, and context. We dig into literature, philosophy, and rhetoric...
2025-02-24 15:08
Canonical Rolling Out Improved CLA Process For Ubuntu Contributions
Canonical's Contributor License Agreement (CLA) used for various projects they develop around Ubuntu Linux isn't changing itself, but the process for signing the CLA is being improved upon...
2025-02-24 14:17
Intel Linux Driver Preparing VRSR Support For Battlemage GPUs
To help with idle/suspend scenarios use for Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics processors, a set of patches were posted today for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for enabling VRAM Self Refresh "VRSR" support...
2025-02-24 13:18
Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility
For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack...
2025-02-24 12:00
Intel Announces Xeon 6500P + Xeon 6700P Processors
After launching the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors last September, today Intel is expanding the family with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors.
2025-02-24 11:00
Intel Announces Xeon 6300 Series - Tops Out At 8-Core Xeon 6369P For $545 USD
In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with ...
2025-02-24 11:00
Intel Preps New Performance Optimizations & Features For Linux 6.15 Graphics Driver
In addition to AMD beginning to queue graphics driver improvements for Linux 6.15, Intel open-source engineers are doing the same and this morning sent out their initial feature pull request to DRM-Next of the i915/Xe kernel graphics/display driver imp...
2025-02-24 10:14