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Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks
A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installati...
2025-07-03 16:06
Debian 13 Installer Now Supports Rescuing of Btrfs Systems Installed via Calamares
Debian 13 "Trixie" installer gets a second Release Candidate with support for rescuing Btrfs systems installed via the Calamares installer, as well as other enhancements. The post Debian 13 Installer Now Supports Rescuing of Btrfs Systems Installed vi...
2025-07-03 15:09
KDE Gear 25.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 25.04 Series
KDE Gear 25.04.3 is now available as the third and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.04 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 25.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 25...
2025-07-03 14:28
Vivaldi 7.5 Browser Adds Tab Stack Colours, New DNS Settings
Colourful tab stacks and concise tab context menu are the headline changes on offer the latest update to the Vivaldi web browser. You're reading Vivaldi 7.5 Browser Adds Tab Stack Colours, New DNS Settings, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduc...
2025-07-03 14:24
Libreboot 25.06 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support
Libreboot 25.06 open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware is now available for download with support for new hardware, as well as other improvements. Here's what's new! The post Libreboot 25.06 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support appeared f...
2025-07-03 13:51
Thunderbird 140 Adds ‘Mark as Spam’ and ‘Mark as Starred’ Actions to Notifications
Mozilla Thunderbird 140 open-source email client is now available for download with various new features and many bug fixes. Here’s what’s new! The post Thunderbird 140 Adds ‘Mark as Spam’ and ‘Mark as Starred’ Actions to Notifications app...
2025-07-03 13:09
Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16
For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs. In testing carried out using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura edition laptop, there are p...
2025-07-03 10:50
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - June 2025
June brought a fresh wave of updates across openSUSE’s rolling release. There were major feature enhancements, performance improvements, and several critical security fixes. KDE Plasma 6.4 as a the forefront of these updates alongside KDE Frameworks ...
2025-07-03 09:00
X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR
A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...
2025-07-03 08:39
JetPack 4 EOL – how to keep your userspace secure during migration
NVIDIA JetPack 4 reached its end-of-life (EOL) in November 2024, marking the end of security updates for this widely deployed stack. JetPack 4 has driven innovation in countless devices powered by NVIDIA Jetson, serving as the foundation of edge AI pro...
2025-07-03 08:30
Linux 6.17 To Finish Clearing Out Old Code For OpenMoko Devices
Linux 6.17 is expected to clear out some final remnants of the OpenMoko Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner smartphone support from that Linux smartphone effort from two decades ago...
2025-07-03 06:52
Lenovo Legion Go S HID Driver Posted For Linux
The Linux support for the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld continues to be improved upon thanks to the option of having Steam OS on this alternative to the Steam Deck...
2025-07-03 06:30
Improved TTM Memory Management Eviction Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17
Sent out today was the newest drm-misc-next pull request of changes built up over the past week for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. The drm-misc-next material is the usual random assortment of DRM display/graphics driver changes and core...
2025-07-03 06:12
Libreboot 25.06 Released With Support For Two More Outdated Systems
Libreboot 25.06 released this week as the newest version of this Coreboot downstream focused on shipping only with free and open-source components. But due to the strict open-source nature of Libreboot, it continues to primarily see support for long ou...
2025-07-03 05:55
GNOME 49 Makes Papers a Core App, Replacing Evince
When Ubuntu 25.04 made Papers its default PDF viewer rather than keep shipping Evince, it did so knowing that the expectation was that upstream GNOME would do the same — now it has. The GNOME 49 Alpha release will ship Papers as a GNOME Core App, rep...
2025-07-02 22:59
Ubuntu Fixes Desktop File Thumbnails Not Showing
Image, PDF and other supported file thumbnails will once again appear on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop, after nearly a year of not showing. You're reading Ubuntu Fixes Desktop File Thumbnails Not Showing, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce e...
2025-07-02 22:12
Steam On Linux Usage Dips Slightly For June, AMD Linux CPU Usage Hits 69%
Steam Survey issues prevented the survey results from being posted on the evening of the 1st as is traditionally done, but the results were just uploaded now to the Steam website. Steam on Linux usage dipped slightly but overall remains healthy with mu...
2025-07-02 20:38
Debian 13 Installer RC2 Fixes An Annoying Issue, Improves Btrfs Rescue Handling
Following last month's release of Debian Installer Trixie RC1 as the installer for the upcoming Debian 13.0 release, a second release candidate was issued today for testing...
2025-07-02 20:28
ZLUDA Making Progress In 2025 On Bringing CUDA To Non-NVIDIA GPUs
The ZLUDA open-source effort that started off a half-decade ago as a drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs and then for several years was funded by AMD as a CUDA implementation for Radeon GPUs atop ROCm and then open-sourced but then reverted has ...
2025-07-02 16:01
Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy
This blog is contributed by Pushkar Kulkarni, a Software Engineer at Canonical. Building on the rise in popularity of Spring Boot and the 12 factor paradigm, our Java offering also includes a way to package Spring workloads in production grade, minimal...
2025-07-02 14:09