Linux NewsMold 2.42 Delivering Greater Performance For This High Speed Linker
It's been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it's now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high speed linker...
Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements...
LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor
LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today's LACT 0.10 release, there are yet more features in tow...
QEMU 11.1 Released with Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Emulation Support
QEMU 11.1 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with Universal Flash Storage (UFS) emulation support, ARM and RISC-V improvements, and more.
GNOME Devs Share GNOME Shell Design Ideas for Future GNOME Releases
The GNOME design team talks about new search overlay, editable Quick Settings, transparent panel, Mosaic tiling, revamped window switching, login grid, dynamic batter icon, and more.
GNOME 51 could bring a floating search overlay to the Shell
The next version of GNOME Shell, out in September, is likely to include a redesigned search experience. In current versions of the desktop, when you start a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces the one you’re looking at, i.e., the workspace row and dash (aka dock) are obscured. GNOME’s design team has long wanted to adopt a ‘semantic’ layout, whereby search results appear in an overlay that ‘spawns out of the search entry’ box and sits over the screen that triggered it. This concept has been explored and detailed in various mockups over the […]
These Open Source Devs Are Reverse-Engineering Xbox Game Pass for Linux
They have already cracked Xbox game downloads, and macOS support is also being worked on.
QEMU 11.1 Released With Numerous Improvements
For those using QEMU as part of the open-source virtualization stack, QEMU 11.1 is now available with a number of new feature enhancements and fixes...
OpenAI Launches Official ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux in Preview
OpenAI has released its official ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, bringing ChatGPT, Work, and Codex together in one native experience.
Redox OS Enjoys installer Improvements, Performance Enhancements
A new blog post out today from the Redox OS crew highlights all of the interesting improvements made to this Rust-based, open-source operating system over the course of July...
Local AI Weekly #1: It's Happening
The local AI scene is more fragmented than the Linux distro landscape.
ChatGPT desktop app is now available for Linux (in preview)
OpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can run Codex in your local repos, hook into your other apps (via extensions) for ChatGPT Work related tasks and probe your local files without you having to upload anything elsewhere first. ChatGPT desktop for Linux joins Anthropic’s Claude desktop app for Linux, which entered beta last month. This announcement is about an official version of its full-fat desktop GUI app. You’ve no doubt seen plenty of unofficial wrappers around ChatGPT before now, and command-line […]
I ditched Unraid's app templates for Ubuntu, and my homelab finally took off
Unraid’s templates were approachable, but eventually became a limitation.
6 BSDs worth trying instead of Linux
There's more to open-source OSes than Linux distros.
Run Hermes on Raspberry Pi, Control It from Your Laptop
The idea is to use Raspberry Pi as an always-on Hermes backend while using it from the computer(s).