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Wine-Staging 10.2 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug
It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.2 is out at 292 p...
2025-07-12 09:55
Wine-Staging 10.12 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug
It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.12 is out at 292 ...
2025-07-12 09:55
Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX
In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel...
2025-07-12 07:13
NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression
NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping t...
2025-07-12 06:55
GNOME Builder & Digital Wellbeing Code Improved This Week
On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha, other application improvements and more came about in the past few days...
2025-07-12 06:43
KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...
2025-07-12 06:13
Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers Dramatic Database Speed Boost
A sizeable database performance boost is available in the latest release of open source ebook manager, view and converter Calibre, plus plenty of bug fixes. You're reading Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers Dramatic Database Speed Boost, a blog post from OMG! Ubun...
2025-07-11 22:59
Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers a Dramatic Database Speed Boost
A sizeable database performance boost is available in the latest release of open source ebook manager, view and converter Calibre, plus plenty of bug fixes. You're reading Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers a Dramatic Database Speed Boost, a blog post from OMG! Ub...
2025-07-11 22:59
Wine 10.12 Released With Experimental EGL Backend For The X11 Driver
Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...
2025-07-11 20:48
Customise and Move Notifications on GNOME with this Extension
You can customise GNOME Shell notifications, including position on screen, RegEx filtering, and custom colours using the Notification Configurator extension. You're reading Customise and Move Notifications on GNOME with this Extension, a blog post from...
2025-07-11 15:19
Want to Customise GNOME Shell Notifications? Try This Extension
You can customise GNOME Shell notifications, including position on screen, RegEx filtering, and custom colours using the Notification Configurator extension. You're reading Want to Customise GNOME Shell Notifications? Try This Extension, a blog post fr...
2025-07-11 15:19
KDE Frameworks 6.16 Improves Plasma’s Ability to Detect the Most Powerful GPU
KDE Frameworks 6.16 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new! The post KDE Frameworks 6.16 Improves Plasma’s Ability to Detect the Most Powerful GPU appe...
2025-07-11 15:11
Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction
The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch...
2025-07-11 13:02
Calibre 8.6 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Database Restore Performance
Calibre 8.6 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 8.6 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Database Restore Performance appeared first on 9to5...
2025-07-11 12:53
Sovereign AI Platform Picks openSUSE
Europe’s first federated AI initiative has chosen openSUSE as part of its foundation aimed sovereign AI. OpenNebula Systems officially announced the launch of Fact8ra, which is Europe’s first federated AI-as-a-Service platform. This initiative mark...
2025-07-11 10:00
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2
With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popula...
2025-07-11 09:48
Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17
Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work ...
2025-07-11 08:46
Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17
Sent out on Thursday along with Intel's huge Xe driver pull request with new features was the drm-misc-next material for the week. Notable with the drm-misc-next code were actually a set of AMDGPU driver patches to enhance the debugging with the inform...
2025-07-11 08:10
RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support
OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Begi...
2025-07-11 06:48
QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database
QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-...
2025-07-11 06:35