Open Source

Linux 6.17 To Upstream Support For The Decade Old Marvell PXA1908 SoC
Launched back in 2014 was the Marvell PXA1908 SoC intended for 4G LTE smartphones and featured four Arm Cortex-A53 cores. Not too impressive for its time and far less so today. Though after a decade of not seeing mainline Linux kernel support and some ...
2025-07-17 06:13
Linux 6.17 To Fix AMDGPU Hibernation So It Doesn't Take ~50 Minutes On Large GPU Servers
While late in the Linux 6.16 cycle and hitting the cut-off for when the period to queue new DRM driver feature material for Linux 6.17 ends, an additional drm-misc-next pull request was sent out today with some last minute kernel graphics driver change...
2025-07-17 05:56
.NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution
A newly arrived sixth preview of Microsoft’s planned .NET 10 application development platform touts improved JIT code generation for struct arguments, one-shot tool execution, and other enhancements in the .NET libraries, runtime, and SDK, as well ...
2025-07-17 01:15
Wireshark 4.4.8 Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer Updates Protocol Support
Wireshark 4.4.8 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available to download with various bug fixes and updated protocols. Here's what's changed! The post Wireshark 4.4.8 Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer Updates Protocol Support appeared fi...
2025-07-16 23:44
GStreamer 1.26.4 Adds TAI Timestamp Muxing Support to mp4mux, Other Changes
GStreamer 1.26.4 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed! The post GStreamer 1.26.4 Adds TAI Timestamp Muxing Support to mp4mux, Other Changes appeared first on ...
2025-07-16 23:15
Rescuezilla 2.6.1 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Adds Ubuntu 25.04 Support
Rescuezilla 2.6.1 distribution is now available for download with a new build based on Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” and other changes. Here’s what’s new! The post Rescuezilla 2.6.1 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Adds Ubuntu 25.04 Support ...
2025-07-16 22:45
New RISC-V SBC Supports Ubuntu 24.04, Won’t Run Future Releases
ESWIN EBC77 RISC-V SBC launches with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS support but RVA20 profile means it won't run Ubuntu 25.10 or later. Specs, price, and availability. You're reading New RISC-V SBC Supports Ubuntu 24.04, Won’t Run Future Releases, a blog post from...
2025-07-16 22:05
Qdrant Cloud adds service for generating text and image embeddings
Qdrant has launched Qdrant Cloud Inference, a managed service that allows developers to generate, store, and index text and image embeddings in the Qdrant Cloud. The service, which uses integrated models within a managed vector search engine, is desig...
2025-07-16 21:31
Ubuntu 25.10 Fixes Something You Didn’t Know Needed Fixing
Another bug to file under 'once you see it, you can't unseen it' has been fixed in Ubuntu, this one concerning the curved corners on the desktop dock. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Fixes Something You Didn’t Know Needed Fixing, a blog post from OMG! Ub...
2025-07-16 19:50
Ubuntu 25.10 Fixes the Dock’s Inconsistent Radii
Name: Ubuntu Dock radii. Age: Brand new. Appearance: Ever-so-slightly rounder. What’s the bug? When the Ubuntu Dock is in dock mode (not full width) the corner radii doesn’t match the radii used elsewhere, while padding around Yaru icons (and the...
2025-07-16 19:50
Perforce unveils agentic AI test tool for web and mobile apps
Seeking to ease web and mobile app testing by leveraging AI, Perforce Software has unveiled Perfecto AI, an agentic AI testing tool that removes the need for test scripts, frameworks, or maintenance and streamlines testing workflows, according to the ...
2025-07-16 19:21
Linux Foundation Newsletter: July 2025
Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter. This month, our global community of developers, maintainers, and members came together in Denver for Open Source Summit North America. Thank you to our attendees for a vibrant week o...
2025-07-16 16:30
Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default
In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter's series...
2025-07-16 15:44
AWS looks to cut storage costs for LLM embeddings with Amazon S3 Vectors
AWS is previewing a specialized storage offering, Amazon S3 Vectors, that it claims can cut the cost of uploading, storing, and querying vectors by up to 90% compared to using a vector database, a move likely to be of interest to those running generat...
2025-07-16 14:46
8-Way Linux OS Comparison On The Framework 12: Squeezing More Performance Out Of Raptor Lake
Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for tha...
2025-07-16 12:20
Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations
Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August...
2025-07-16 11:13
12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced
Similar to the 3D class header files previously open-sourced by NVIDIA for prior generation GPUs, yesterday NVIDIA carried out a similar open-source move to publish all the 3D class header files for their newest Blackwell graphics processors...
2025-07-16 10:49
More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver
It's a very busy week for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers leading up to the Mesa 25.2 code branching. On top of RADV ray-tracing improvements, Vulkan 1.2 conformance for Kepler GPUs, Xe3 Panther Lake graphics enabled by default, and many othe...
2025-07-16 10:10
4 tips for getting started with free-threaded Python
Until recently, Python threads ran without true parallelism, as threads yielded to each other for CPU-bound operations. The introduction of free-threaded or ‘no-GIL’ builds in Python 3.13 was one of the biggest architectural changes to the CPython...
2025-07-16 09:00