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NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with Better Wayland Support
NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series is now available for public beta testing with improved Wayland support and other changes. Here’s what to expect! The post NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with Better Wayland Support appeared firs...
2025-08-06 12:16
KDE Plasma 6.4.4 Desktop Environment Improves Notifications, Flatpak Support
KDE Plasma 6.4.4 is now rolling out with various improvements and bug fixes for the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series. The post KDE Plasma 6.4.4 Desktop Environment Improves Notifications, Flatpak Support appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-08-06 11:29
Intel Xe Enabling SR-IOV PF By Default, Marking Driver As "Broken" For Non-4K Kernels
On top of all the Linux 6.17 kernel graphics driver feature changes that landed last week like promoting Panther Lake's Xe3 graphics to on-by-default, SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs, multi-GPU preparations, Wildcat Lake enablement work, and more, some addi...
2025-08-06 10:25
AlmaLinux Introduces Native NVIDIA Support Using Open-Source Kernel Driver
The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage comp...
2025-08-06 09:59
Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.2 Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.16 and GNOME 48.3
PorteuX 2.2 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.16, GNOME 48.3, KDE Plasma 6.4.2, and NVIDIA 575.64.05. Here's what else is new! The post Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.2 Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.16 and GNOME 48.3 ...
2025-08-06 08:50
Linux 6.17 Fixes A Performance Bottleneck In The Futex Code
Merged last week for Linux 6.17 were the FUTEX locking changes that include addressing an observed performance bottleneck...
2025-08-06 08:50
Btrfs Sees Urgent Fix Following Recent Reports Of Log Tree Corruption
On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions...
2025-08-06 08:11
Darktable 5.2.1 Adds Support for Nikon D200, Nikon D5300, and Pentax K-r Cameras
Darktable 5.2.1 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with support for new cameras, new noise profiles, and bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Darktable 5.2.1 Adds Support for Nikon D200, Nikon D5300, and Pentax K-r Cameras ap...
2025-08-06 08:02
4MLinux 49.0 Distro Adds Support for Bcachefs Installations, New Apps, and More
4MLinux 49.0 distribution is now available for download with support for Bcachefs installations, new default apps, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post 4MLinux 49.0 Distro Adds Support for Bcachefs Installations, New Apps, and More appeared ...
2025-08-06 07:27
Valve's ACO Compiler Used By AMD Drivers Optimize Scheduling Heuristic For Newer GPUs
Merged today for Mesa 25.3-devel to benefit the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI Gallium3D AMD drivers are improved scheduling heuristics for the ACO compiler back-end developed by Valve...
2025-08-06 06:30
Linux 6.17 Optimizes khugepaged For ARM64 With Huge "16x" Impact For One Code Path
Andrew Morton this week sent in some additional memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.17 to complement last week's many MM patches from new optimizations to more DAMON features. Most notable with this secondary set of patches are khugepaged op...
2025-08-06 06:20
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux Ultrabook Unveiled with Ryzen AI 300
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux laptop is now available for pre-order with the AMD Ryzen AI 300 processor and updated components. The post TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux Ultrabook Unveiled with Ryzen AI 300 appeared first on 9to5Linux -...
2025-08-06 06:19
GTK3 Version Of gconfig Merged For Linux 6.17
All of the Kbuild changes were merged today for the Linux 6.17 kernel. Most notable with the Kbuild changes is the gconfig graphical utility for configuring the Linux kernel configuration now being ported from GTK2 to GTK3...
2025-08-06 05:59
What craft means for Canonical
Why are so many Canonical software tools named “craft”?
2025-08-06 05:34
Audacity 3.7.5 Fixes More Bugs, Windows on ARM Builds
A new version of Audacity, the popular open-source audio editor, is available for download. Audacity 3.7.5 is the latest in the 3.7.x series of maintenance releases launched last year. Major new features are not the focus, only (still welcome) fixes an...
2025-08-05 22:59
systemd 258-rc2 Released In Preparing For H2'2025 Linux Distributions
Released two weeks ago was systemd 258-rc1 with many changes throughout its massive codebase. Out today is a second release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 258...
2025-08-05 21:00
Rust Making Progress On Its 2025 Project Goals
The Rust project put out a status update concerning its 2025 project goals to summarize what has been accomplished during the first half of the year...
2025-08-05 20:35
Toot, Toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Huge Update
Tuba 0.10 features a redesigned post composer, YouTube playback, timeline tweaks and more, making this open-source Linux Mastodon client even better. You're reading Toot, Toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Huge Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. D...
2025-08-05 18:04
Toot, toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Major Update
Tuba 0.10 features a redesigned post composer, YouTube playback, timeline tweaks and more, making this open-source Linux Mastodon client even better. You're reading Toot, toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Major Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...
2025-08-05 18:04
PCI Express 8.0 Aims For 256 GT/s In 2028
The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...
2025-08-05 17:01