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Valentin Rothberg’s journey into container-native Linux didn’t start with a grand plan – it started with the work. After over 8 years at Red Hat contributing to projects like Podman and bootable containers, Fedora felt like the natural home for his next chapter. In Summer 2025 he began working on Project Hummingbird, which builds directly […]
As noted back in April, with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it's now possible to simply "apt install rocm" on Ubuntu Linux for installing AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. But as prominently noted there, what's shipped right now in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is already months out of date compared to upstream ROCm. Fortunately, Canonical shared today that moving forward they plan to ship newer ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs)...
Transmission 4.1.2 arrives as a bugfix release with download, tracker, TCP connection, Web UI, GTK, Qt, and macOS fixes.
While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova driver remains ongoing. Out this week is the 12th iteration of the Hopper and Blackwell enablement for this future open-source NVIDIA Linux driver...
Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software...
As another interesting takeaway from this week's Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux...
As a follow-up to the article last week about KRAID as a new compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics, that initial code has now been merged to Mesa 26.2 for benefiting the Panfrost and PanVK open-source drivers...
The heart of a Proxmox Server is setting up Virtual Machines (VM) and Linux Containers (LXC). In this article, we will look at setting up a virtual machine running Linux. It really doesn't matter which Linux distro, since they basically all install similarly. So, we will install Linux Mint 22.2 XFCE as a virtual machine. Installation Media The first thing to do is download the ISO file needed for the installation of Linux Mint. I downloaded version 22.2 XFCE from... https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-04-linux-virtual-machine.61667/
Transmission 4.1.2 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements for the Qt client, GTK client, Web client, and macOS client.
Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the “CommitHistory” campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this June. This […]
At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable...
Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others...
Gaming on Ubuntu on modern ARM-based devices just got a boost, as Canonical has announced that its Steam Snap for Arm64 devices is now ‘stable’. The effort has been in beta since it was announced in January. Since then, Canonical says it has “received great feedback” from users kicking the tyres on those early builds, across a varied range of Arm64 platforms and devices. Issues raised in the testing phase have been ironed out, with Ubuntu’s maker touting “solid performance across many popular games” on devices like the NVIDIA DGX Spark and Radxa Orion O6, as well as Snapdragon laptops […]
Vim Classic 8.3 arrives as a long-term support fork of Vim, based on Vim 8.2 and maintained without generative AI tools.
Extended attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to inodes—files, directories, and the like—in a filesystem. As with many Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesystem supports xattrs. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, FUSE maintainer Miklos Szeredi led a discussion about caching xattrs in kernel memory; he would like to create some common infrastructure that could be used by FUSE and shared with other filesystems.
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