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Linux 6.17 Features: Great Intel Graphics Improvements, AMD HFI, Attack Vector Controls + Lenovo Gaming Drivers
With the Linux 6.17-rc1 release this past Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is over. Here is a look back at the most exciting changes that made it for Linux 6.17.
2025-08-15 16:15
Wine 10.13 Released With One Month Worth Of Improvements
One month has passed since the Wine 10.12 release. While typically new Wine development releases are on a bi-weekly release cycle, summer holidays typically interfere for one release per year with the Wine project. Thankfully Wine 10.13 is out today to...
2025-08-15 15:04
“AI” is the endgame for totalitarians
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behavior has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a child in conversa...
2025-08-15 15:02
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Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead – you just don’t know it yet
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! Hi, FAB 2025 is still happening in Prague and it has been a wonderful event. It’s been great to meet so many people from our community at home, in Czechia! But during my c...
2025-08-15 13:46
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Patches Posted For Raspberry Pi 5 Ethernet With The Upstream Linux Kernel
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is a great and popular Arm single board computer, some elements of getting the hardware support upstream have lagged behind just as was also the case with prior generations of the Raspberry Pi SBC. One of the enablement bits no...
2025-08-15 12:52
Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept
The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called "Dangerous" Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu daily development images...
2025-08-15 12:13
The truth about Python’s AI-powered popularity surge
Python’s popularity is surging thanks to AI, but also its power and ease of use. Editable installs for Python packages and the newly refined type hinting in Python 3.14 are just two examples, and the brand new, in-beta installation manager also help...
2025-08-15 09:00
Can your cloud provider really scale?
On July 29, 2025, enterprises relying on Microsoft Azure’s East US region experienced an unexpected disruption that reverberated across numerous organizations. Attempted allocations for virtual machines failed. The root cause wasn’t a network brea...
2025-08-15 09:00
Intel FRED Suffers A Late "Incompatible Change" To The Architecture
Intel FRED has been seeing Linux software enablement going on for the past three years. FRED is the Flexible Return Event Delivery that overhauls CPU transitions between privilege levels with a goal of lower ring transition latency and more robust soft...
2025-08-15 08:24
DM-PCACHE Poised For Linux 6.18 As High Throughput, Low Latency DAX Cache
Barring any issues from coming up in the near future, it looks like DM-PCACHE will be submitted for the Linux 6.18 cycle later in the year as a high throughput, low latency cache for DAX-capable persistent memory devices...
2025-08-15 08:01
Generic VFIO Platform Driver To Be Marked As Deprecated For Removal
Some old and unmaintained drivers for Linux's Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) support are being marked as deprecated for eventual removal, including the generic VFIO platform driver...
2025-08-15 06:34
AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux
One of the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) patch series that has long been in the works is on a standardized Color Pipeline API. This is for improving advanced color management handling on Linux and aligns with what Valve and Igalia engineers have...
2025-08-15 06:21
Ubuntu 25.10 Enters Its Feature Freeze Period
As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October...
2025-08-15 06:06
Ghostty Terminal Rewrites its GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues
Ghostty terminal has undergone a GTK rewrite, embracing the GObject type system. The result: new features, better memory management, and improved stability. You're reading Ghostty Terminal Rewrites its GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues, a blog post from OM...
2025-08-15 02:09
Ghostty Terminal Rewrites GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues
Ghostty terminal has undergone a GTK rewrite, embracing the GObject type system. The result: new features, better memory management, and improved stability. You're reading Ghostty Terminal Rewrites GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues, a blog post from OMG! U...
2025-08-15 02:09
Haiku’s July was short, but still brought tons of changes
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! We all managed to survive another month, so here we are, with another monthly update from Haiku, covering the month of July. It’s been a rather short month, it being the middl...
2025-08-14 22:52
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AROS gets new partitioning tool, SDL2 port, and more
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! We’re not done with the AROS news quite yet, as Andrzej Subocz published another update with the latest news from the AROS community. Some of it we already covered, but a lot ...
2025-08-14 22:38
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VirtualBox 7.2 Release Brings Big UI Change, Better ARM Support
VirtualBox 7.2.0 brings hardware-accelerated video decoding for Linux hosts, a rejigged interface, and support for running Windows on ARM. You're reading VirtualBox 7.2 Release Brings Big UI Change, Better ARM Support, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do ...
2025-08-14 21:02
AmiBrowser: the Chromium engine running on a Linux host talking to a 68K Amiga application running inside a 68K emulator
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! Covering the Amiga world is always a bit of a crapshoot, since for what is surely an incredibly small segment of the computing world, it happens to be incredibly complex, with m...
2025-08-14 20:45
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