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Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Zstd Initrd, Updated Compiler Toolchains & More
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...
2025-07-22 08:47
AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs
A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...
2025-07-22 06:52
Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver
Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs o...
2025-07-22 06:33
Fwupd 2.0.13 Released With New Hardware Support, Numerous Fixes
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems...
2025-07-22 06:12
Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting
A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release. This merge transitions the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) from using the DRM "legacy" kernel mode-setting APIs over to the modern atomic mode-setti...
2025-07-22 00:00
Argon ONE Up is a 14-inch Raspberry Pi Laptop Shell
Last year I reviewed the CrowView Note, a portable monitor with battery, keyboard and trackpad that makes it devilishly easy to use a Raspberry Pi as a laptop — albeit a laptop with a single-board computer sticking out the side! As much as I love (an...
2025-07-21 23:14
Argon ONE Up Laptop Runs on a Raspberry Pi CM5
Argon ONE UP is a 14-inch laptop powered by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. It boasts ports, expansion ports, and 40 pin GPIO add-on. Details inside. You're reading Argon ONE Up Laptop Runs on a Raspberry Pi CM5, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
2025-07-21 23:14
Nuxt 4.0 improves project organization, data fetching, TypeScript support
Nuxt 4.0, the latest version of an open source web development framework for writing Vue components, has arrived, centered on improvements in project organization, data fetching, and TypeScript support. The whole intent of Nuxt 4.0 is about making the...
2025-07-21 23:00
KDE Plasma Adds Rounded Bottom Window Corners to Apps
KDE Plasma 6.5 will automatically round the bottom corners of Breeze-decorated windows, adding a feature that's been asked for by KDE fans for years. You're reading KDE Plasma Adds Rounded Bottom Window Corners to Apps, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do...
2025-07-21 21:35
Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa
Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...
2025-07-21 18:05
Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Groups, Reduces Memory Use on Linux
Firefox 141 is out, featuring AI-powered tab groups, lower memory usage on Linux, a new unit converter, and expanded PiP support. See what's new. You're reading Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Groups, Reduces Memory Use on Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...
2025-07-21 17:53
Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Grouping, Reduces Memory Use on Linux
Firefox 141 is out, featuring AI-powered tab groups, lower memory usage on Linux, a new unit converter, and expanded PiP support. See what's new. You're reading Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Grouping, Reduces Memory Use on Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu...
2025-07-21 17:53
AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT
While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as...
2025-07-21 16:50
NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helpin...
2025-07-21 11:54
Microsoft wants to find out why Windows 11 is so slow
Microsoft wants to know why, exactly, Windows 11 is slow, so it’s adding a feature in the latest Insider Preview to collect data when a Windows 11 machine is experiencing slowness or sluggishness. As part of our commitment to improving Windows perfor...
2025-07-21 11:14
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Google launches TPU monitoring library to boost AI infrastructure efficiency
Google has introduced a new monitoring library to enhance Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) resource efficiency as enterprises scale AI workloads to meet growing internal and customer demand while managing costs.The TPU Monitoring Library is integrated wit...
2025-07-21 11:05
Mwm: an X11 window manager in 20 lines of code
Is KDE too much for you? GNOME tries to do too much? Xfce still a bit too fancy? Do you need something smaller? Even more minimalist? What about a mere 20 lines of code which provide the absolute barest possible minimum of window management functionali...
2025-07-21 11:04
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AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2
With the Mesa 25.2 open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics driver code having been branched last week ahead of its stable release in August, I carried out some fresh benchmarks on AMD's exciting Strix Halo platform using the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with R...
2025-07-21 10:30
Firefox 141 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post Firefox 141 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not...
2025-07-21 10:03
An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
The Document Foundation, which developers LibreOffice, is mad at Microsoft for the levels of complexity in the Microsoft 365 document format. They claim Microsoft intentionally makes this format’s XML schema as complex and obtuse as possible to lock ...
2025-07-21 09:27
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