AMD Posts Linux Patches For New AI Engine Driver "amd-ai-engine"
Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the "amd-ai-engine" accelerator driver. This new AMD AI Engine driver is for supporting the IP found on their Versal...
Firefox 120 To Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks
For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefo...
Spring support available on Ubuntu
This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of the devpack for Spring, a new snap that streamlines the setup of developer environments for Spri...
Live Linux kernel patching with progressive timestamped rollouts
In internet connected environments, where Ubuntu instances can reach livepatch.canonical.com, Livepatch Client supports timestamp-based rollout configurations. Organizations can implement controlled and predictable update pipelines from staging to prod...
Linux App Release Roundup (June 2025)
How the Jeff is it July, already?! Blink-and-you-miss-it June flew by but it did deliver a number notable Linux app releases to act as blurred mile markers as we hurtle into another month. The redesigned ONLYOFFICE 9.0 generated a lot of opinion; the F...
digiKam 8.7.0 Release Offers Improved AI Tools
You don’t need to be a professional photographer (protographer?) to find photo management software digiKam helpful, as the canny crop of new “AI” powered features on offer in the latest release proves. Note: this is a news item covering what’s ...
digiKam 8.7.0 Released with Improved AI Tools
Faster AI-powered face recognition and an AI powered image rotation plugin are among new features in an update to open source photo manager digiKam. You're reading digiKam 8.7.0 Released with Improved AI Tools, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not repr...
Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21
Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary...
Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK
Java has long been the most popular language for software development in large enterprises, with 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it for backend development, particularly in industries like finance, healthcare, and government. Java developers, more...
