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Tomeu Vizoso as the open-source developer behind the "Rocket" driver for reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU support, Teflon as a Mesa framework for TensorFlow Lite and NPU uses, and various Etnaviv driver work, has announced his newest creation: Thames...
If you run Ubuntu 26.04 development builds as your daily driver and have noticed a glut of updates in recent days, don’t get excited: there aren’t reams of new features heading your way – at least, not ones you can see. Ubuntu engineers recently began a “mass rebuild of all source packages”, re-compiling them from scratch to ensure that they have the right tooling and hardware compatibility features enabled. This wholesale task ensures that the majority of apps, libraries and tools spanning the entire resolute archive are using the distro’s preferred baselines where applicable – yup, even those dusty libraries […]
Considering the vast configuration options it offers, you can guess why so many Linux users prefer Dash to Dock over others.
The open-source ZLUDA project for bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware that can run unmodified is out with a new progress report. ZLUDA had a productive fourth quarter with now enjoying better Microsoft Windows support, full support for running Llama.cpp atop ZLUDA, AMD ROCm 7 support, and other enhancements...
Unraid’s 2026 plans include booting without USB flash drives, expanded storage arrays, and a modernized web interface.
Building off today's release of Wine 11.0 for enabling countless Windows applications and games to run well under Linux and being the basis of Valve's Proton for Steam Play, Hangover 11.0 is now available. Hangover is the open-source project that pairs Wine with either the FEX-Emu or Box64 emulators for enabling x86 32-bit and 64-bit Windows games/apps to run on native ARM64 Linux systems...
Mozilla Thunderbird 147 open-source email client is now available for download with new options, improvements, and bug fixes. Here's what's new!
Mozilla Thunderbird 147 open-source email client is out with a new full folder path option, improved localization, performance fixes, and more.
Quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms attempt to prioritize some processes (or network traffic, disk I/O, etc.) over others in order to meet a system's performance goals. This is a difficult topic to handle in the world of Linux, where workloads, hardware, and user expectations vary wildly. Qais Yousef spoke at the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference, alongside his collaborators John Stultz, Steven Rostedt, and Vincent Guittot, about their plans for introducing a high-level QoS API for Linux in a way that leaves end users in control of its configuration. The talk focused specifically on a QoS mechanism for the scheduler, to prioritize access to CPU resources differently for different kinds of process. (slides; video)
The Wine 11.0 stable release delivers full WoW64 support, kernel-level NTSync synchronization, and major improvements across graphics and gaming.
According to our writer, three small, easy-to-miss plugins were all it took for Joplin to live up to its Evernote-killer reputation. The post Three Small Plugins That Make Joplin Click appeared first on FOSS Force.
According to our writer, three small, easy-to-miss plugins were all it took for Joplin to live up to its Evernote-killer reputation. The post Three Small Plugins That Make Joplin Click appeared first on FOSS Force.
Both Gnome and Firefox have proposed getting rid of a long-time favorite Linux feature.
It's getting easier to run your favorite Windows app without being on Windows.
I wonder if Extension Manager could make it into Fedora one day.
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