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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
GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes
For those seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022...
2025-07-11 06:23
From sales development to renewals: Mariam Tawakol’s career progression at Canonical
Career progression doesn’t follow a single path – and at Canonical, we embrace that. Our culture encourages individuals to explore roles aligned with their evolving skills and interests, even if it means stepping into a completely new technical spa...
2025-07-11 04:30
Ubuntu 24.04 Users Get Major Kernel, GPU Driver Update
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04 Users Get Major Kernel, GPU Driver Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not...
2025-07-10 22:59
Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Provides a Major Mesa Upgrade
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Provides a Major Mesa Upgrade, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not...
2025-07-10 22:59
Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Brings Big Mesa Upgrade
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Brings Big Mesa Upgrade, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not repro...
2025-07-10 22:59
Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL
Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern "Xe" kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. New hardware support, SR-IOV preparations for Battlemage, other Intel Battlemage work, and also preparations for the u...
2025-07-10 20:52
NovaCustom Launching An Intel Meteor Lake NUC Box Running On Dasharo/Coreboot
For those interested in a small form factor PC running on the open-source Coreboot firmware, Netherlands-based vendor NovaCustom is launching an Intel Meteor Lake powered NUC box running on the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot...
2025-07-10 20:14
OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions
The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...
2025-07-10 15:23
Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub
Linux users can now install the official Mozilla VPN client from Flathub, making access to its paid-for, privacy-minded service more readily accessible to Linux users. The Mozilla VPN Flatpak is current in the process of verification (reminder: Linux M...
2025-07-10 15:13
System76’s Adder WS Linux Laptop Gets Intel Core Ultra i9 and NVIDIA 50 Series
System76 Linux-powered Adder WS laptop gets an Intel Core Ultra i9 275HX CPU and NVIDIA 50 Series graphics in the latest update. The post System76’s Adder WS Linux Laptop Gets Intel Core Ultra i9 and NVIDIA 50 Series appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-07-10 15:01
In pursuit of quality: UX for documentation authors
Canonical’s Platform Engineering team has been hard at work crafting documentation in Rockcraft and Charmcraft around native support for web app frameworks like Flask and Django. It’s all part of Canonical’s aim to write high quality documentatio...
2025-07-10 15:01
Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster
Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA "NAK" compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction scheduling. This real instruction scheduling support for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics processors can provide some significant performance benefit...
2025-07-10 13:14
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Reached End of Life, Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” reached end of life on July 10th, 2025, and it will no longer be supported. All users should upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 LTS “Plucky Puffin” as soon as possible. The post Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Reached En...
2025-07-10 12:56