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AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option
AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP pa...
2025-02-11 06:24
BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Starts 2025 Off Introducing An AMD CPU Temperature Driver
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their January 2025 status report that outlines all of the interesting work over the past month...
2025-02-11 06:13
Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...
2025-02-10 20:43
DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong)
I rarely blog or post on social media but I do write a private weekly newsletter for our staff and board and for a couple of weeks in a row have been writing about DeepSeek.  What I didn’t consider is the reaction this week in the press and markets...
2025-02-10 16:08
Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS Mercury Lands with Linux Kernel 6.13 and Xfce 4.20
EndeavourOS Mercury is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13, Xfce 4.20, and KDE Plasma 6.2.5. Here's what's new! The post Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS Mercury Lands with Linux Kernel 6.13 and Xfce 4.20 appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not ...
2025-02-10 15:31
Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance
Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with For...
2025-02-10 15:11
Myrlyn Now Handles Community Repos
The promising new package management tool Myrlyn now includes a much-requested feature: repository configuration. Users can now easily manage their repos, adjust priorities, enable auto-refresh, and even add well-known community repositories like pacma...
2025-02-10 13:00
Intel's Newest Open-Source Project Is "Polite Guard"
Intel's newest open-source project and addition to their AI offerings is... Polite Guard...
2025-02-10 12:40
Apple Touch Bar Backlight & Keyboard Mode Drivers Slated For Linux 6.15
For those making use of the Intel-powered Apple MacBook Pro laptops featuring the Touch Bar, better support for that interface is slated to land with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...
2025-02-10 12:18
How your feedback shapes the way we support open source software
Over the past year, we’ve been busy gathering  your feedback on the redesign of our support portal. We want to make sure the portal meets your evolving needs, and delivers the best possible support experience for your open source software. Your insi...
2025-02-10 11:00
GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing
GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...
2025-02-10 10:51
Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code
Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can ev...
2025-02-10 09:02
Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps
KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less c...
2025-02-10 08:51
Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration
You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest f...
2025-02-10 08:28
The state of the Location permission on Fedora Linux in 2025
This article will discuss the state of finding your current geographical location in the Fedora Linux environment. Background For many mobile devices it is useful to get the current location. This is usually done using a GPS sensor, where the coordinat...
2025-02-10 08:00
New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz
A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...
2025-02-10 06:43
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support
Adding to the Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is honoring of the low latency encoding options...
2025-02-10 06:31
Microsoft Continues Enhancing Its Azure Linux 3.0 Distribution With February Update
Microsoft engineers released Azure Linux 3.0.20250206 overnight as the newest monthly update to this in-house Microsoft Linux distribution that is used within their Azure cloud infrastructure and a variety of other purposes at the Redmond company...
2025-02-10 06:07
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 9th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for February 9th, 2025, brings news about LibreOffice 25.2, Firefox 135, PorteuX 1.9, Thunderbird 135, Tails 6.12, Calibre 7.25, KDE Gear 24.12.2, Ardour 8.11, fwupd 2.0.5, as well as all the latest distro and software upda...
2025-02-10 02:20
ONLYOFFICE 8.3 Released with Apple iWork Support, Shape Merging + More
A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is now available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.3 brings a bunch of new features and nimble enhancements spread throughout the full suite, which is ...
2025-02-09 16:57