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KDE Update Turns Off Effect That Could Cause Seizures
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 turns off a visual desktop effect which could, in rare cases, post a risk of triggering seizures in users with photosensitive conditions. You're reading KDE Update Turns Off Effect That Could Cause Seizures, a blog post from OMG! Ubunt...
2025-06-25 19:00
Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now
Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect! The post Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now appeared first on 9to5Lin...
2025-06-25 18:01
AVX-512's Enormous Advantage For AMD EPYC 4005 Series Performance
The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P)...
2025-06-25 15:00
Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn
The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steeri...
2025-06-25 14:33
Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project
One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they f...
2025-06-25 14:15
RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton...
2025-06-25 09:00
Native integration now available for Pure Storage and Canonical LXD
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Pure Storage, the IT pioneer delivering enterprise-grade all-flash storage, have partnered to introduce a native integration between LXD and Pure Storage FlashArray. This collaboration allows organizations to c...
2025-06-25 08:38
Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance
With the Linux 6.16 kernel Intel enabled the new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) interface as part of their int340x thermal driver. Now ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel Intel PTC is being extended to support a Throttling Control Interface for those th...
2025-06-25 08:10
🔧 Deep dive into sosreport: understanding the data pack layout in Fedora & RHEL
This article will describe the content and structure of the sosreport output. The aim is to improve its usefullness through a better understanding of its contents. 🧰 What is sosreport? sosreport is a powerful command-line utility available on Fedora...
2025-06-25 08:00
Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches
Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit t...
2025-06-25 06:20
Intel Open-Source Software Begins Adding Notices For Generative AI Use
Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions...
2025-06-25 06:05
PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...
2025-06-25 05:42
KDE Continue Work on Slick New ‘First Run’ Setup Tool
Setting up KDE Plasma on a new device will soon be far more engaging, as KDE developers work on revamping the ‘first run experience’. If you’ve ever unboxed a new laptop with Windows or macOS you’ll have been greeted by a slick, guided setup to...
2025-06-25 01:38
KDE Slick New ‘First Run’ Setup Tool Taking Shape
KDE devs have revived the KISS setup tool, aiming to create a polished first-boot experience for Linux users to rival onboarding on Windows and macOS. You're reading KDE Slick New ‘First Run’ Setup Tool Taking Shape, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. D...
2025-06-25 01:38
Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool
Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...
2025-06-24 20:27
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.4.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes. The post KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes appeared firs...
2025-06-24 15:36
Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3
While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utili...
2025-06-24 14:05
Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLi...
2025-06-24 13:45
mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...
2025-06-24 11:30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the pletho...
2025-06-24 10:15