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Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
Thanks to Collabora's work on Zink and NVK… and indirectly to GPU-maker's FOSS release, too. Not one but two new drivers for some Nvidia GPUs is a promising, if indirect, offshoot of the GPU maker's open-saucy moves.…
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GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday[he]#039[/he]s Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today[he]#039[/he]s article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25.04 Linux gaming performance for both the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktops that default to the Wayland-based session by default while also trying out the X11 session for both of these desktops.
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Nolen Royalty, known as eieio, keeps the internet fun with experimental multiplayer games

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In […]
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CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
That stands for I Probably Overestimated? CoreWeave has pared back the scope of its initial public offering amid growing investor uncertainty in an overheating AI marketplace and risks posed by the GPU cloud specialist's exposure to a small number of customers.…
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KaOS 2025.03 Linux Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.3 and Linux Kernel 6.13

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
KaOS Linux 2025.03 has been released today as the latest ISO snapshot for this independent Linux distribution built on top of the latest KDE software and featuring Arch Linux’s pacman package manager.
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Linux 6.15 Graphics Drivers: NOVA Core, Apple Touch Bar, Lots For AMD + Intel GPUs

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
The big pull request was sent out today of the numerous Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. There are new drivers, a lot as usual for the AMD Radeon and Intel kernel graphics drivers, and a lot of other changes throughout for advancing these open-source kernel graphics/display drivers...
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KaOS 2025.03 Launches with Plasma 6.3 and Full Qt6 Integration

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
KaOS 2025.03 is out with Linux kernel 6.13, Plasma 6.3.3, KDE Gear 24.12.3, and major scaling, graphics, and system info updates.
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Ubuntu Provides More Insight Into Their Decision Not To "-O3" Optimize All Packages

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
Since last year Canonical had been investigating using -O3 compiler optimizations for their Ubuntu package builds in the name of delivering better performance for Ubuntu Linux. A few weeks back though they decided they would not use -O3 optimizations for all packages. They have now provided more engineering insight into their reasoning and the results of their investigation into -O3 compiler optimizations for more packages...
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Enhancing Privacy on Linux: Mounting Logs and Temporary Directories in RAM

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
To enhance user privacy and reduce the risk of activity tracking on Linux systems, you can mount temporary directories such as /tmp, /var/tmp, and /var/log in RAM using tmpfs. This ensures these directories are cleared at every reboot, leaving no logs or temp files behind. The tmpfs filesystem is a RAM-based filesystem that stores all data in volatile memory rather than on a persistent storage device, making it ideal for privacy-focused configurations.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Messages

Linux News - Sat, 03/29/2025 - 22:20
Google Messages is a text messaging software application developed for its Android and Wear OS mobile operating systems. We recommend the best FOSS alternatives for Linux.
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Contribute to Fedora 42 KDE, Virtualization, and Upgrade Test Days

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. There are three test periods […]
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Linux Flips Around Its Behavior For Spectre-BHB Handling On ARM64

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
All of the ARM64 changes were merged this week to the Linux 6.15 kernel for enhancing the 64-bit ARM processor support...
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Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux 6.14, GNOME 48

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
Canonical released today the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) release for public beta testing, so it’s time to take a look at what to expect from the final release.
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The April 2025 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the April 2025 issue.
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AerynOS 2025.03 Alpha Released with GNOME 48, Mesa 25, and Linux Kernel 6.13.8

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
AerynOS 2025.03 has officially been released, introducing a variety of exciting features for Linux users. The release includes the highly anticipated GNOME 48 desktop environment, which comes with significant improvements like HDR support, dynamic triple buffering, and a Wayland color management protocol. Other updates include a battery charge limiting feature and a Wellbeing option aimed at improving user experience.
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Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector Leverages Power-Over-Ethernet for Remote Deployments

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
This month, Raspberry Pi launched a device capable of powering its single-board computers over Power-over-Ethernet. The Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector enables both power and data to be transmitted through a single Ethernet cable, simplifying network infrastructure for projects deployed in remote or difficult-to-access locations. Compatible with devices conforming to IEEE 802.3af and 802.3at standards, including […]
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PostgreSQL Database Lands Initial Support For IO_uring: "Can Be Considerably Faster"

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
As a very exciting improvement for the open-source PostgreSQL database server, it has merged initial support for making use of IO_uring on Linux servers for asynchronous I/O and can provide for some nice performance improvements...
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openSUSE’s Zypper Package Manager Gets an Exciting New Feature

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
openSUSE's Zypper package manager introduces optional parallel downloads and backend enhancements with up to 50% time savings in benchmarked scenarios.
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Linux 6.15 SoC/DT Additions: Arm Morello, Versal NET, Apple T2, MNT Reform 2 & More

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
The many SoC and DeviceTree updates have now been merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. There's a lot on the ARM hardware side plus some additions for RISC-V and various interesting new device/board additions...
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Ubuntu 25.04 Beta Delivering Some Nice Performance Improvements Over Ubuntu 24.10

Linux News - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 22:20
Ubuntu 25.04 beta is set to be released today and thus this week I[he]#039[/he]ve begun testing out the latest Ubuntu 25.04 builds on different systems for seeing how this six-month Ubuntu Linux update is looking compared to the prior Ubuntu 24.10 release. In this first Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarking article is a look at the performance using an AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop and Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics.
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