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GNOME 49 Merges Late Mutter Change To Help Cursor Responsiveness With VRR
Merged today to Mutter ahead of next month's GNOME 49 release is an important improvement for those making use of Variable Rate Refresh (VRR)...
2025-08-18 09:12
How does the metrics layer enhance the power of advanced analytics?
Amid all the buzz around advanced AI-powered data analytics, one crucial component often goes unnoticed: the metrics layer. This is where metrics creation takes place, the process that defines and manages the metrics that turn data signals into action...
2025-08-18 09:00
Why software developers burn out, and how to fix it
Software development is a demanding field where changes happen rapidly. Developers are pushed to constantly learn and innovate while simultaneously producing a high volume of code. It’s no surprise that software engineers and other development profe...
2025-08-18 09:00
Why AI fails at business context, and what to do about it
Here’s the awkward truth about today’s “smart” AI: It’s great at syntax, mediocre at semantics, and really bad at business context. That last bit matters because most enterprise value hides in the seams—how your organization defines active...
2025-08-18 09:00
Illumos Cafe Hopes To Reinvigorate Interest In Illumos/OpenSolaris Derived Platforms
It's been 15 years already since the Illumos project was formed as based on the OpenSolaris codebase after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and closing down OpenSolaris. Illumos Cafe is a new effort akin to BSD Cafe aiming to be a resource and ...
2025-08-18 08:17
SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU
The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems...
2025-08-18 06:22
Intel Graphics Compiler 2.16 Fixes PyTorch For Battlemage GPUs, Adds BMG-G31 + WCL
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime oneAPI/OpenCL release, a new version of the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" has been released for Windows and Linux...
2025-08-18 06:14
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 5-Inch Released For $40
The newest hardware offering announced by Raspberry Pi today is a 5-inch variant of the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2...
2025-08-18 05:52
Ubuntu devs plan “dangerous” daily builds – but what are they?
Name: Ubuntu Dangerous (subject to change). Age: Yet to be born. Appearance: A normal Ubuntu development build, but with hidden potential for total chaos. What’s this about? Ubuntu devs feel regular unstable daily builds are not risky enough, so they...
2025-08-18 00:13
Ubuntu’s New “Dangerous” Daily Builds – What Are They?
Ubuntu devs are creating new "dangerous" daily builds with edge channel snaps pre-installed, designed to help with testing spikes at Canonical. You're reading Ubuntu’s New “Dangerous” Daily Builds – What Are They?, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu....
2025-08-18 00:13
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 17th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 17th, 2025, brings news about NVIDIA 580, VirtualBox 7.2, KDE Gear 25.08, GNOME 49 beta, SparkyLinux 8.0, Grml 2025.08, GNOME 48.4, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, Debian and GNOME's birthdays, and more. The post 9to5Linu...
2025-08-17 23:53
Linux 6.17-rc2 Released With Performance Fixes & More
Linux 6.17-rc2 is now available to facilitate the latest weekly testing of the Linux 6.17 kernel...
2025-08-17 18:59
Ubuntu 25.10 Reveals New Wallpaper, Mascot Artwork
Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" default wallpaper features a line-art quokka motif, purple gradient, and a cute nod to the 'questing' part of the codename. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Reveals New Wallpaper, Mascot Artwork, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...
2025-08-17 14:37
Linux 6.17 Performance Looking Even Better After Early Fallout Addressed
Last week I ran some early Linux 6.17 benchmarks showing some improvements and regressions when testing with AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo". Since then there have been some performance regression fixes along with addressing other early fallout from this...
2025-08-17 12:30
Linux 6.17-rc2 To Better Tune Attack Vector Controls For SRSO Mitigation
One of the new exciting security features with Linux 6.17 is Attack Vector Controls as a means of easier managing CPU security mitigations depending upon the system/server use-case. It drastically simplifies CPU security mitigation management for only ...
2025-08-17 09:23
Linux Merges Headset Detection Workaround For Framework 13 Ryzen AI 300 Series
Merged this week as part of the sound fixes for the Linux 6.17 cycle and now to be back-ported to the stable kernel versions is a headset detection fix/workaround for the Framework 13 Laptop powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series...
2025-08-17 08:29
Shotcut 25.08 Brings More Bug Fixes To This Open-Source Video Editor
Released last month was Shotcut 25.07 with many improvements to this popular open-source and cross platform video editor. Released today was Shotcut 25.08 to provide more fixes atop that latest video editor release...
2025-08-17 05:24
Microsoft Store application updates can no longer be disabled
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! One of the most hated “features” of Windows is its update system – it’s slow, error-prone, and most annoyingly of all, tends to interrupt users at the worst possible...
2025-08-16 23:24
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Microsoft Word for the PowerPC version of Windows NT uncovered and archived
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! We all know the earlier versions of Windows NT were available not only for x86, but also for MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC (and there were unreleased ports to SPARC and Clipper)....
2025-08-16 22:50
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Guide: FreeBSD, KDE Plasma, and Wayland
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! But what if your friends and relatives are more interested in FreeBSD than Linux? Well, here we have a detailed guide to setting up a FreeBSD desktop using KDE Plasma and Wa...
2025-08-16 21:14
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