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AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX Performance With TRX50 + Quad Channel DDR5
The newly-launched AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series headlined by the 64-core Threadripper 9980X and 32-core Threadripper 9970X offer incredible performance and a wonderful addition to the Zen 5 family for the HEDT space. But there is also the Threadr...
2025-08-14 09:00
Intel's Habana Labs / Gaudi Accelerator Driver Maintainer Is Leaving The Company
One of the latest departures from Intel amid their ongoing restructuring is the official maintainer of the "habanalabs" accelerator Linux kernel driver that provides support for their range of Gaudi AI accelerator products...
2025-08-14 08:20
KDE Gear 25.08 Released With Improvements For Many KDE Apps
KDE Gear 25.08 is out this morning as the newest feature release to this collection of KDE applications...
2025-08-14 06:51
AMDXDNA Improvements & New Rockchip NPU Accelerator Driver For Linux 6.18
Sent out today was the first DRM-Misc-Next pull request to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening around early October. There are a number of smaller DRM graphics driver improvements ready as well as continued work around the...
2025-08-14 06:36
LibreOffice 26.2 To Better Handle Documents With Restricted Embedded Fonts
Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts. This is for dealing with situations where fonts may have restricted licensing rights and where up to now LibreOffice Writer simply h...
2025-08-14 06:22
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Has Been Tackling File-System Issues, Better Wacom Tablet Support
Tbe BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has continued in advancing this open-source platform with more fixes and other enhancements. The project published its July recap to outline the interesting changes made...
2025-08-14 06:13
Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware
A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVID...
2025-08-14 05:58
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, July 2025
This report covers hrev58946 through hrev58986. Applications waddlesplash reworked Terminal to not change its current directory when spawning new Terminals, which was inadvertently causing filesystems to not be able to be unmounted if a Terminal was sp...
2025-08-13 23:00
LVFS Asks Hardware Makers to Fund Future of Linux Firmware Updates
Linux's firmware hub, the LVFS, announces a new funding model with quotas for vendors to firm up its future. Most vendors will see no change. You're reading LVFS Asks Hardware Makers to Fund Future of Linux Firmware Updates, a blog post from OMG! Ubunt...
2025-08-13 20:21
Linux Firmware Service Calls on Hardware Makers to Help Fund It
Linux's firmware hub, the LVFS, announces a new funding model with quotas for vendors to firm up its future. Most vendors will see no change. You're reading Linux Firmware Service Calls on Hardware Makers to Help Fund It, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...
2025-08-13 20:21
Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released with Rust, 64bit support, and more
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! The Hurd, the collection of services that run atop the GNU Mach microkernel, has been in development for a very, very long time. The Hurd is intended to serve as the kernel for ...
2025-08-13 20:20
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Driving towards a double bottom line, through participation and choice
As global political landscapes shift, mission-driven organizations face a critical challenge: creating resilient models that deliver meaningful social impact and financial stability. For over 25 years, Mozilla has worked to strike this balance across d...
2025-08-13 20:04
Linux Foundation Newsletter: August 2025
Welcome to the August  2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter. This month, the Linux Foundation welcomed a groundbreaking project, expanded our India‑based open source footprint, and amplified developer collaboration across continents. Hig...
2025-08-13 17:00
SR-IOV Will Only Be Supported On Intel Arc Pro Graphics Cards
SR-IOV for virtualization with the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver will only be supported on the Arc Pro products and -- unfortunately -- not the consumer Arc B-Series graphics cards...
2025-08-13 16:36
Linux Preps For New "SoC Power Slider" With Upcoming Panther Lake
While it looked like Linux 6.17 was going to be a good baseline for support with upcoming Intel Panther Lake powered laptops given that this next kernel release ships with the Xe3 graphics enabled by default and other bits coming together, it looks lik...
2025-08-13 15:18
Linux Lands Fix For Early 6.17 Regression Causing 37~43% Performance Hit
Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window was an optimization geared for ARM64 that could have a "16x reduction" in the number of calls. Unfortunately that commit ended up causing a rather significant regression for some systems that has now been address...
2025-08-13 14:51
Google Develops KFuzzTest For Fuzzing Internal Linux Kernel Functions
Google engineers today introduced KFuzzTest as a new lightweight framework for in-kernel fuzz targets for internal kernel functions. KFuzzTest aims to make it easier to exercise Linux kernel code paths that are difficult to do from the system call boun...
2025-08-13 13:52
Intel ISPC 1.28 Adds Optimized Support For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs
A new version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler "ISPC" was just published for supporting that C programming language variant optimized for single program. multiple data (SPMD) programming that is optimized for Intel's various hardware offerin...
2025-08-13 13:21
Claude Sonnet 4 upgrade enables full codebase processing in a single request
Anthropic has expanded the capabilities of its Claude Sonnet 4 AI model to handle up to one million tokens of context, five times its previous limit, enabling developers to process entire codebases or large document collections in a single request. Th...
2025-08-13 11:09