Open Source

Btrfs Preps Experimental Large Data Folios For Better Performance
It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system...
2025-06-30 06:23
Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages
A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...
2025-06-30 06:12
Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 Launches For $4
The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2...
2025-06-30 06:02
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 29th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 29th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 140 ESR, KDE Plasma 6.4.1, Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15, GIMP 3.2, PipeWire 1.4.6, GStreamer 1.26.3, qBittorrent 5.1.1, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195, and more. The post 9to5Linux ...
2025-06-30 00:38
Rename Audio Devices on Ubuntu with this ‘Simple’ App
If you regularly switch between different sound sources on Ubuntu—which you can do from the Quick Settings menu—you’re probably used to seeing a list of audio devices with generic names that skew more technical than intelligible. E.g., Intel HDA ...
2025-06-29 22:40
Wayback: experimental layer to run X desktop environments on Wayland
With X.org being in maintenance mode, with the process of replacing it with Wayland accelerating pretty quickly now, a lot of projects using X.org are looking for ways to prepare for the future. Alpine Linux, a distribution focused on musl, BusyBox, an...
2025-06-29 20:43
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Microsoft to remove all but the latest versions of drivers from Windows Update
This blog post is intended to notify all Windows Hardware program partners that Microsoft has taken a strategic initiative to clean up legacy drivers published on Windows Update to reduce security and compatibility risks. The rationale behind this init...
2025-06-29 20:15
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“I want a good parallel computer”
The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those workloads on a CPU is not viable. Why aren’t we e...
2025-06-29 19:42
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Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release...
2025-06-29 17:07
Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation
Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...
2025-06-29 10:33
AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics
It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...
2025-06-29 08:50
Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland
Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...
2025-06-29 07:07
GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes
Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...
2025-06-29 06:57
AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter
With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...
2025-06-29 06:29
Floating Mini Panel GNOME Extension
GNOME Shell extensions make it easy to reshape the standard desktop layout in novel new ways, with add-ons like Dash to Panel, OpenBar, and Task Up provide options to combine, configure and customise the top panel. Now, another choice has drifted on to...
2025-06-28 14:23
Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell Extension
GNOME Shell extensions make it easy to reshape the standard desktop layout in novel new ways, with add-ons like Dash to Panel, OpenBar, and Task Up provide options to combine, configure and customise the top panel. Now, another choice has drifted on to...
2025-06-28 14:23
A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Provides One
A new GNOME Shell extension that turns the top bar into a compact, movable widget, so you can customise your Ubuntu desktop minimalism in mind. You're reading A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Provides One, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
2025-06-28 14:23
A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Gives You One
A new GNOME Shell extension that turns the top bar into a compact, movable widget, so you can customise your Ubuntu desktop minimalism in mind. You're reading A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Gives You One, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not ...
2025-06-28 14:23