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Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine
In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API...
2025-03-04 06:32
RADV Driver Adds CI Coverage For Aging Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs
While AMD hasn't released an updated Windows driver for the Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs since 2022 for Windows 10, over in the Linux/open-source space the driver support continues. It will hopefully continue reliably too now that the Mesa RADV continuo...
2025-03-04 06:30
Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities
Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That's culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this ...
2025-03-04 06:18
Firefox 136 Released with Vertical Tabs, New Sidebar + More
The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release delivers a number of notable new features—features Mozilla may be hoping help it re-earn some goodwill from users following last week’s privacy palaver. Last month’s Firefox 135 release rolled out a refreshed ...
2025-03-04 03:18
KeePassXC 2.7.10 Open-Source Password Manager Brings Proton Pass Support
KeePassXC 2.7.10 open-source password manager is now available for download with Proton Pass support, Passkey support for Bitwarden imports, and more. Here's what's new! The post KeePassXC 2.7.10 Open-Source Password Manager Brings Proton Pass Support ...
2025-03-04 02:18
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for February. Ftpmaster team is seeking for new team members In December, Scott Kitterman announced his retirement from the project. I personally regret this, as I vividly remember his invaluable support dur...
2025-03-04 00:00
Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking
The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements...
2025-03-03 20:17
Mozilla Firefox 136 Is Out with Vertical Tabs and Official ARM64 Linux Binaries
Mozilla Firefox 136 open-source web browser is now available for download with vertical tabs layout, Linux binaries for AArch64 systems, and much more. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 136 Is Out with Vertical Tabs and Official ARM64 Linux B...
2025-03-03 16:16
Experiment Tracking with MLFlow in Canonical’s Data Science Stack
Welcome back, data scientists! In my previous post, we explored how easy it is to set up a machine learning environment with Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) and run your first model using Hugging Face’s Smol Course. Today, let’s take it a st...
2025-03-03 13:21
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users
Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 is now rolling out to all supported devices with various improvements and fixes. Here’s what’s new! The post Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this...
2025-03-03 12:32
Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements
Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...
2025-03-03 12:18
GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering
Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into ...
2025-03-03 12:07
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 2nd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 2nd, 2025, brings news about NVIDIA 570, NetworkManager 1.52, Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12, Armbian 25.2, KDE Plasma 6.3.2, LibreOffice 25.2.1, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. T...
2025-03-03 11:55
Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries
Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...
2025-03-03 11:46
How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years
SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carrie...
2025-03-03 11:12
AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel
Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcas...
2025-03-03 10:00
Raspberry Pi CM4 Now Available With "Extended Temperature" Variants
Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in ...
2025-03-03 08:45
Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support
Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support...
2025-03-03 08:32
Intel Preps Linux For eUSB2V2 To Enhance USB 2.0 For Higher Resolution Laptop Webcams
Last September the USB Implementers Forum quietly published an update to the USB 2.0 specification... The Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" supplement to provide for better performance with significantly higher data rates to USB 2.0 while maintaining...
2025-03-03 06:47
Linux Gaining SMP Support For The OpenPOWER Microwatt
Open-sourced back in 2019 was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an open-source, soft processor core of Power ISA 3.0 and intended for use on FPGA boards and then there was seemingly short-lived work to fabricate a Microwatt chip and Microwatt also found its w...
2025-03-03 06:23