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The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II is a recently-launched wireless gaming controller for both PC and Xbox gaming. This is a premium controller priced at $160 USD and has been receiving positive reviews under Windows while now it will soon be seeing mainline Linux support...
If youâre having trouble accessing the Ubuntu website, the Snap store or Launchpad then youâre not alone: Canonicalâs websites are currently facing a âsustained, cross-borderâ DDoS attack. The company says it is âworking to addressâ the attack and will provide more details shortly. Some websites and services have been affected for as long as 14 hours (at the time of writing). The Ubuntu APT repos are not offline, as theyâre mirrored across multiple locations, countries and servers, although the main archive.ubuntu.com is offline (at the time of writing). Itâs still possible to download OS ISO images too, due to distributed [âŚ]
Intel's upcoming Crescent Island product as a reminder is a new inference-optimized Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM and targeting enterprise AI workloads. Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be very busy enabling the driver support for Crescent Island as well as making broader Xe3P improvements...
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted are the ATI/AMD R300 and R600 drivers and many smaller drivers...
A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G31", and much more software and hardware content that made the month interesting. Last month on Phoronix were 303 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles...
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April 2026 has been and gone, but not before delivering an array of Linux software updates, including new versions of popular FOSS video editor Kdenlive and Oracleâs virtualisation offering VirtualBox. We also got Firefox 150 with GTK emoji picker support and split tab improvements, and a modest bug fix update to the GIMP image editor, albeit resolving an annoying on-canvas text tool quirk. Below, I list other notable Linux app releases to arrive in April. While these didnât merit a dedicated article (hey, it was a busy month with the release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS), they still brought nifty new [âŚ]
Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts are now transcribed, compilable, and MIT-licensed.
In this lowâpressure Monday meetup, Otto Kekäläinen helps aspiring Debian devs untangle packaging puzzles, absorb the culture, and turn curiosity into accepted contributions. The post âMentoring Mondaysâ Is Otto Kekäläinenâs Way to Support New Debian Devs appeared first on FOSS Force.
Shotcut 26.4 adds Vulkan GPU support for Speech to Text, timeline improvements, export metadata, 10-bit VP9 presets, and many fixes.
Even while the Linux 7.1 merge window was still ongoing this month, the initial "drm-misc-next" pull request to DRM-Next was sent out for beginning to queue new feature material toward the Linux 7.2 kernel coming this summer...
Shotcut 26.4 open-source video editor is now available for download with Vulkan GPU support for Speech to Text on Linux, 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets, and more.
Grml 2026.04 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 6.19. Hereâs whatâs new!
Linux Mintâs switch to a longer development cycle â its next major release is arriving at Christmas â has a knock on effect for people trying to install it on newer hardware that requires a newer kernel. So a solution has been announced. A set of updated ISO images, dubbed HWE (Hardware Enablement), have been published to âaddress compatibility issues with brand new hardwareâ, according to project lead Clement Lefebvre. The new Linux 22.3 image contains Linux 6.17 kernel and the team will, from this point on, publish new HWE ISOs each time the a new kernel arrives in the [âŚ]
Fedora 44 is here and so is a new standard directory under Home.
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