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2025-02-14 06:30
Vulkan 1.4.308 Brings NVIDIA's Provisional Present Metering Extension
Vulkan 1.4.308 was quietly released last week and besides a few fixes what makes it interesting is the provisional VK_NV_present_metering extension...
2025-02-14 06:14
Valkey 8.1-rc1 Delivers Fresh Performance Improvements
Valkey as the open-source in-memory store forked from Redis is preparing for its next feature release...
2025-02-14 06:05
TrueNAS 25.04 "Fangtooth" Beta Unifies Linux SCALE & FreeBSD CORE Efforts
TrueNAS 25.04 beta was released on Thursday as another step toward unifying the TrueNAS CORE OS derived from FreeBSD and the Linux-based TrueNAS SCALE...
2025-02-14 00:00
Ubuntu’s Icon Theme Fixing Its Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’
Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t say I had either! But it turns out some of the icons are indeed oversized. The Yaru icon theme in Ubuntu uses 4 di...
2025-02-13 23:51
Ubuntu is Fixing a Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’ in its Icon Theme
Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t say I had either! But it turns out some of the icons are indeed oversized. The Yaru icon theme in Ubuntu uses 4 di...
2025-02-13 23:51
Ubuntu to Fix a Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’ in its Icon Theme
Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t say I had either! But it turns out some of the icons are indeed oversized. The Yaru icon theme in Ubuntu uses 4 di...
2025-02-13 23:51
OBS Studio Raises Issues With Fedora's Flatpak Package
The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed...
2025-02-13 20:39
Zed Editor Introduces Open-Source "Zeta" Edit Prediction Model
The Zed code editor for macOS and Linux systems has proven to be quite popular for this Rust-based editor started by the creators of the Atom editor. Their latest feature being introduced is Zeta as an open-source edit prediction model to further enhan...
2025-02-13 15:58
Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format With Future Updates Optional
The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its ...
2025-02-13 14:18
Hector Martin Resigns From The Asahi Linux Project
Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to re...
2025-02-13 10:56
Linux 6.14-rc3 To Fix Platform Profile Support For Newer AMD-Powered ThinkPads
Submitted today via the x86 platform driver updates ahead of Linux 6.14-rc3 on Sunday are some Lenovo ThinkPad patches that may interest some users...
2025-02-13 10:41
DebConf25 Logo Contest Results
Last November, the DebConf25 Team asked the community to help design the logo for the 25th Debian Developers' Conference and the results are in! The logo contest received 23 submissions and we thank all the 295 people who took the time to participate i...
2025-02-13 10:00
Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations
For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12...
2025-02-13 09:51
How can you personalize your Ubuntu Pro subscription?
Ubuntu Pro is Canonical’s subscription for open source software security, support and compliance. Users of Ubuntu Pro benefit from Expanded Security Maintenance, which extends patching from the standard 5 years to 10 years, for both the Main and Univ...
2025-02-13 09:17
Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged
As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!..
2025-02-13 08:25
Tumbleweed Plans to Adopt SELinux as Default
Tumbleweed is planning to adopt SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations in the nearterm. The transition was announced on the mailing list in July and marks a significant development for the rolling release. A new announ...
2025-02-13 07:00
Tumbleweed Adopts SELinux as Default
Tumbleweed has adopted SELinux as the default Linux Security Module (LSM) for new installations after a recent snapshot. The transition was announced on the mailing list in July and marks a significant development for the rolling release. A new announc...
2025-02-13 07:00
Device Trees For Apple T2 SoCs Slated For Upstreaming In Linux 6.15
While there has been the recent drama over upstream maintainership over Apple Silicon / Asahi Linux code, Sven Peter is continuing to move things forward for the upstream kernel and this week sent out a set of Apple SoC DeviceTree updates intended for ...
2025-02-13 06:58
NVIDIA Wiring Up Autonomous Performance Level Selection To Linux CPPC CPUFreq Driver
Similar to the Autonomous Performance Level Selection and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) support already found within the Intel P-State and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers for their modern processors, NVIDIA engineers are working on simi...
2025-02-13 06:40