Open Source

Building a simple router with OpenBSD
I’m hardly a “networking” or system admin expert. Even still, I’ve always been interested in the concept of building out my own home router with OpenBSD. It seemed so “hacky” and cool! The problem is that most of the tutorials I stumble acr...
2025-07-14 08:58
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RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioni...
2025-07-14 07:07
Intel Mesa Drivers Add Option To Disable Xe3's Variable Register Thread "VRT" Feature
One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread "VRT" feature. Making use of Variable Register Thread can reduce register splitting, reduce bandwidth consumption, and imp...
2025-07-14 06:42
LMDE 7 Will Follow Linux Mint 22.2
The Linux Mint developers have put out their monthly status update to outline their work in recent weeks. Over the course of June, Linux Mint developers were primarily focused on Linux Mint 22.2 with the beta release expected soon...
2025-07-14 06:30
Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available
Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...
2025-07-14 06:17
Canonical at RISC-V Summit China 2025
The RISC-V Summit China is an annual event that brings together the global RISC-V community – including technical, industry, domain, and ecosystem groups who define the architecture’s specifications. All the experts will meet in Shanghai, China, to...
2025-07-14 04:00
DebConf25 starts today in Brest on Monday, July 14, 2025
DebConf25, the 25th annual Debian Developer Conference, is taking place in Brest, France from 14 to 19 July 2025. Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at the Campus of IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, Brest, to partic...
2025-07-14 00:50
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 13th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 13th, 2025, brings news about GNOME 49 Alpha, Amarok 3.3, Calibre 8.6, Ubuntu 24.10 EOL, CachyOS's July 2025 release, Parrot OS 6.4, OBS Studio 31.1, GParted Live 1.7.0-8, KDE Frameworks 6.16, Wayland 1.24, and mo...
2025-07-14 00:05
Rio is a Fast, WebGPU-Powered Terminal for Ubuntu
Seeking a fast, modern terminal for Ubuntu? Rio is a cross-platform, hardware-accelerated terminal emulator built in Rust with novel features. You're reading Rio is a Fast, WebGPU-Powered Terminal for Ubuntu, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprod...
2025-07-13 22:39
Linux 6.16-rc6 Released With Transient Scheduler Attacks Mitigations, AMD Zen 2 Fixes
As we approach the stable Linux 6.16 kernel release later this month, Linux 6.16-rc6 is out today as the newest weekly test candidate...
2025-07-13 17:37
CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation
The CachyOS ISO snapshot for July 2025 is now available for download with a long-awaited requested feature and other improvements.. Here’s what’s new! The post CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation appear...
2025-07-13 15:33
GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices
GParted Live 1.7.0-8 open-source partition editor is now available for download with a mechanism to reduce the random order of block devices. The post GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices appeared first on 9to5Li...
2025-07-13 12:47
CachyOS July 2025 Ships With Mesa Patched For Anti-Lag, Plasma Defaulting To Wayland
The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system is out with its "July 2025" update for providing the latest innovations for this performance-optimized, feature-rich Linux distribution...
2025-07-13 12:33
Linux 6.16 Ready With Fixes For Old AMD Hardware "Which Wasn't Even Supposed To Run Linux"
Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware...
2025-07-13 09:52
AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching
Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux. Some of that code hadn't been merged as of writing but fortunately this week the remainder of the NGG...
2025-07-13 07:19
Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone
Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the se...
2025-07-13 07:00
Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company
Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company...
2025-07-13 06:52
Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OS. Haiku just published their convenient monthly recap that highlights all of the interesting changes made the past mon...
2025-07-13 06:35
GStreamer 1.27.1 Release Brings AMD HIP Plugin & Better Vulkan Video
GStreamer 1.27.1 released this week as the first development version toward the GStreamer 1.28 release coming later in the year. GStreamer 1.27/1.28 is bringing a lot of modern feature enhancements for this widely-used multimedia library...
2025-07-13 06:28
Debconf25 welcomes its sponsors
DebConf25, the 26th edition of the Debian conference is taking place in Brest Campus of IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, France. We appreciate the organizers for their hard work, and hope this event will be highly beneficial for those who att...
2025-07-12 23:45