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Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages
Firefox Add-Ons are a crucial element of this open source browser, and finding good ones that work well, important. A design change aims to help. You're reading Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
2025-07-29 02:25
GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers
GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 kernel is now available for download. This release is based on Linux kernel 6.16 and it’s targeted at those who seek 100% freedom for their personal computers. The post GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 Kernel Is Now Available for Software F...
2025-07-28 22:50
Contribute to the Anaconda Installer DNF 5 Test Days, July 28 – August 1
The Anaconda team have done some great changes over the last few Fedora Linux releasese. For Fedora Linux 43, they would like your help testing their latest changes – switching Anaconda installer to DNF5 and removing DNF modularity support from Anaco...
2025-07-28 22:20
Audacious 4.5 Open-Source Audio Player Adds Playback History Plugin, Winamp 2.9 Skin
Audacious 4.5 open-source media player arrives with a new Playback History plugin, Winamp 2.9 skin, improved PipeWire output plugin, and more. Here's what's new! The post Audacious 4.5 Open-Source Audio Player Adds Playback History Plugin, Winamp 2.9 ...
2025-07-28 21:48
GitHub previews natural language app builder for AI-powered apps
GitHub Spark, an AI-powered tool for building full-stack intelligent apps, with front-end, back-end, and AI features included, using only natural language, has moved to a public preview stage. The public preview, currently open only to Copilot Pro+ us...
2025-07-28 21:15
Linux Kernel 6.16 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Linux kernel 6.16 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more. Here’s what’s new! The post Linux Kernel 6.16 Officially Relea...
2025-07-28 20:26
Linux 6.17 Will Let Multi-Device Filesystems Better Cope With Losing A Disk
The VFS changes were merged a short time ago to the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. Among the notable changes there is a patch that will allow file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs to better handle losing a disk in their built-in RAID/multi-device cap...
2025-07-28 20:20
Linux 6.16 released
This release includes some Ext4 performance improvements; XFS support for large atomic writes; support for USB audio offload; support for zero-copy send TCP payloads from DMABUF memory; various futex improvements; initial support for Intel Trusted Doma...
2025-07-28 19:32
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Testing New Linux Kernels on Ubuntu is About to Get Easier
Canonical announces a new strategy for Ubuntu development releases, now offering upstream Linux kernels for earlier testing and (hopefully) better stability. You're reading Testing New Linux Kernels on Ubuntu is About to Get Easier, a blog post from OM...
2025-07-28 18:38
The EU’s age-verification application requires a Google or Apple account and Google-approved Android device or iPhone
The European Union is in the process of testing an age-verification application, which people can use to verify their age in a privacy-preserving manner (in theory, of course). There’s countless important discussions to be had about whether or not ag...
2025-07-28 18:12
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GNU C Library 2.42 Released With SFrame Support, Newer Intel CPU Detection
Following yesterday's release of GNU Binutils 2.45, the GNU C Library 2.42 released today...
2025-07-28 17:00
Chrome is helping you shop smarter and safer with store reviews.
We’re introducing store reviews to Google Chrome in the U.S. to make your online shopping experience safer and more efficient. This feature uses data from Google Shoppin…
2025-07-28 17:00
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Launches Subscription Service For "Premium Desktop Experience"
The Hyprland Wayland compositor that is popular with some Linux enthusiasts today formally announced Hyprperks, its new paid subscription service offering a "premium desktop experience" and other benefits...
2025-07-28 16:01
Linux 6.17 Preps Many Networking Changes From Broadcom 800G To More WiFi 7
Jakub Kicinski on Sunday sent out the big set of networking subsystem updates heading into the Linux 6.17 kernel. From high-end enterprise and data center hardware down to consumer Ethernet and WiFi devices, the Linux networking space continues to be a...
2025-07-28 14:41
Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel
With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version. But we await to see how Linus Torvalds will respond...
2025-07-28 13:10
Lightning performance, protecting PII: Taimi’s privacy-first TikTok campaign
For marketers, understanding how a campaign performed shouldn’t come at the cost of ceding proprietary data, or time-consuming integration acrobatics, with the platforms they run on. But that’s often the tradeoff they encounter, particularly when i...
2025-07-28 13:00
Samsung removes bootloader unlocking with One UI 8
Have a Samsung phone (outside of the United States), and want to unlock the bootloader? Well, soon you won’t be able to do so anymore, as Samsung seems to be removing this option from their phones – including already sold models being upgraded to O...
2025-07-28 12:01
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Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads
With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the "-march=native" compiler optimizations for the kern...
2025-07-28 11:46
Ubuntu To Keep Up-To-Date With Linux Kernel Versions During Development
Last year Canonical established a policy to always ship the latest Linux kernel version at Ubuntu release time which for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 will mean shipping with Linux v6.17. But during the Ubuntu development cycles they typically don't aggres...
2025-07-28 10:10
Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle
While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power management. The lack of runtime PM has meant the GPU clock remains at full-s...
2025-07-28 09:02