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PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2
The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and oth...
2025-07-09 06:57
Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APUs
Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within t...
2025-07-09 06:40
Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APIs
Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within t...
2025-07-09 06:40
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties...
2025-07-09 06:32
PHP 8.5 Alpha 1 Released With New Features
The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year...
2025-07-09 06:21
Celebrating 20 Years of openSUSE
Contributors and community members are encouraged to celebrate the openSUSE Project’s 20th anniversary by sharing some of their favorite moments from the past two decades. Over the years, it has grown into a global movement, powering desktops, server...
2025-07-09 06:00
Floating Mini Panel GNOME Extension Adds Auto Mode
The Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell Extension I wrote about recently now includes an option to automatically activate the compact, movable panel based on your workflow. While there are a couple of caveats to how this auto-mode gets triggered, it’s an...
2025-07-08 22:25
KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Released with Numerous Improvements and Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.3.6 is now available as the sixth point release to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes. The post KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Released with Numerous Improvements and Bug Fixes appeared first on...
2025-07-08 21:18
Amarok 3.3 Open-Source Music Player Is Out as First Release Fully Ported to Qt 6
Amarok 3.3 open-source music player is now available for download as the first release ported to the latest Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 series. Here's what's new! The post Amarok 3.3 Open-Source Music Player Is Out as First Release Fully Ported to Qt 6 ...
2025-07-08 20:23
GNOME 48.3 Adds Support for More Video/Audio Types in Nautilus’ Search Filter
GNOME 48.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the GNOME 48.3 desktop environment with various enhancements and bug fixes. Here's what's changed! The post GNOME 48.3 Adds Support for More Video/Audio Types in Nautilus’ Search Filter ...
2025-07-08 19:46
OBS Studio 31.1 Adds Linux Multitrack Video Support + More
Are you in the mood to stream or screen-record? If so, a new version of OBS Studio is out with an appreciable set of improvements you’ll want to take advantage of! OBS Studio 31.1 adds support for multitrack video on Linux (and macOS) having been a W...
2025-07-08 19:37
Amarok 3.3 Released With The Music Player Ported To Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6
Just over one year after the Amarok 3.0 release after a six year hiatus that brought it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5, Amarok 3.3 is out today as the first version taking it to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6...
2025-07-08 18:56
GlobalFoundries Acquiring MIPS
Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long histo...
2025-07-08 13:52
Linux Patched For Transient Scheduler Attacks "TSA" Impacting AMD CPUs
Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors...
2025-07-08 12:19
Framework 12 Platform Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency
Last month the Framework Laptop 12 began shipping as an upgrade-friendly, convertible 2-in-1 laptop that is friendly with Linux as we've come to expect out of Framework Computer devices. The launch-day Linux testing at Phoronix of the Framework 12 was ...
2025-07-08 12:10
IBM Announces Power11 With "99.9999%" Uptime, 55% Better Core Performance Than Power9
Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware...
2025-07-08 10:42
AMD Hardware Feedback Driver Destined For Linux 6.17 To Benefit Heterogeneous CPUs
The AMD Hardware Feedback Driver has been queued up via a TIP branch for expected merging during the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. This new open-source AMD driver is designed to help make the kernel's scheduler make better decisions around task pla...
2025-07-08 10:23
What our users make with Ubuntu Pro – Episode 1
Secure homelabs – and more – for the entire family Ubuntu Pro isn’t just for enterprises – it’s for the passionate community that powers and supports open source every day. From secure remote access to homelab hardening, Ubuntu Pro helps user...
2025-07-08 09:05
Fan Control Firmware Updated For Intel Battlemage Graphics Cards On Linux
In addition to Intel upstreaming the Xe3 graphics firmware needed for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs to linux-firmware.git so those firmware binaries can get picked up by Linux distributions ahead of Panther Lake laptops shipping, Intel also upstreamed fan...
2025-07-08 09:03
Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Drops GTK+ Option In Favor Of Its "YTK" Fork
The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon "YTK" as its own localized fork of this toolkit...
2025-07-08 06:40