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With Podman 6 bringing big under‑the‑hood networking and modernization changes, Fedora is calling on experienced users to put the daemonless container engine through its paces. The post Fedora Announces Podman 6.0 Test Days – May 11-15, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!..
FreeRDP 3.26 is now available as a maintenance release with three high-ranking CVE fixes, macOS H.264 VideoToolbox support, and Android client improvements.
Yesterday was the OpenCL 3.1 release and today is another exciting development for The Khronos Group standards: the debut of the Vulkan SC SDK for safety-critical applications...
Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client...
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API...
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12 brings fixes across the compositor, Files, Settings, Store, Terminal, and Edit apps.
Back in March AMD announced the open-source ROCDXG library for improved ROCm support on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The ROCDXG-based solution provides better ROCm compatibility within these Linux confines atop Windows 11 compared to their prior, now-legacy-based WSL support. A new ROCDXG release now available further expands the ROCm WSL2 support to more Ryzen hardware...
For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs...
Now that the Linux v7.1 merge window is well past, Intel kernel graphics driver engineers are busy prepping new feature code for introduction for targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...
Last week marked the release of GCC 16.1 as the first GCC 16 stable release. While that release introduces initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" support well in advance of those next-generation AMD processors debuting, it's not yet in perfect shape with just today two missing optimizations around AVX-512 having been merged...
COSMIC 1.0.12 desktop environment is now available with improvements to COSMIC Term, COSMIC Files, COSMIC Edit, Notification Applet, COSMIC Store, and COSMIC Settings.
Last month a Fedora Linux change proposal was shared proposing that Fedora 45 be built with x86_64-v3 packages to complement the generic x86_64 (v1) packages currently being compiled. This has the possibility of providing greater performance out of packaged Fedora software but comes with the cost of greater burdens on web mirrors, QA / testing, and related infrastructure impact. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" decided today to wait on coming to a decision over this Fedora 45 change proposal...
The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment will finally introduce KDE's new CSS-based style engine called Union as a technical preview.
Steam’s May client update adds controller connection popups, battery notification controls, Big Picture fixes, and a SteamVR reconnect fix.
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