Linux NewsAzure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities
Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform...
Arduino’s new Qualcomm-powered AI board ships with Ubuntu
Qualcomm subsidiary Arduino has announced the VENTUNO Q, a new single-board computer that ships with Ubuntu pre-installed. This isn’t a board aimed at casual makers or tech tinkerers bored with their Raspberry Pi, but catering to the demands of AI workloads at the edge: robotics, industrial automation, computer vision. The Ventuno Q is built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-8275 processor with CPU, GPU and NPU, which delivers 40 TOPS of AI compute to run large language models, visual language models and computer vision workloads on-device. It comes with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM – double what you get on the comparable Jetson Orin […]
[$] Disabling Python's lazy imports from the command line
The advent of lazy imports in the Python language is upon us, now that PEP 810 ("Explicit lazy imports") was accepted by the steering council and the feature will appear in the upcoming Python 3.15 release in October. There are a number of good reasons, performance foremost, for wanting to defer spending—perhaps wasting—the time to do an import before a needed symbol is used. However, there are also good reasons not to want that behavior, at least in some cases. The tension between those two positions is what led to an earlier PEP rejection, but it is also playing into a recent discussion of the API used to control lazy imports.
AlmaLinux 9 and 10 Gain Official NVIDIA CUDA Support
NVIDIA now officially supports AlmaLinux for CUDA workloads, with driver and userspace packages available in the distro's repositories.
SUSE may be for sale, again
Reuters is reporting that private-equity firm EQT may be looking to sell SUSE: EQT has hired investment bank Arma Partners to sound out a group of private equity investors for a possible sale of the company, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters. The ​deliberations are at an early stage and there is no certainty that EQT will ​proceed with a transaction, the sources said. SUSE has traded hands a number of times over the years. Most recently it was acquired by EQT in 2018, was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2021, and then taken private again by EQT in August 2023.
Ghostty 1.3 terminal brings big new features
A big update to Ghostty terminal emulator has dropped, delivering a raft of new features like scrollback search, native scrollbars and and process completion notifications. Ghostty 1.3.0 packs in 6 months of development effort: 2,800+ commits from 180 contributors. As well as new features there are hundreds of performance tweaks, bug fixes and platform optimisations for those using it on macOS, Linux and FreeBSD (Ghostty isn’t available on Windows). But it’s features most of you will care about, and this update to the Zig-based open-source terminal sees a couple of long-requested ones arrive. You can now search your terminal scroll […]
Fedora Evaluating New Idea For For Experimental Concepts & Fostering New Innovations
Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta announced a new proposal for "A Technology Innovation Lifecycle Process for Fedora." With the help of Google's Gemini AI, Spaleta laid out a proposal to help Fedora make greater accommodations for experimental concepts and building more interest around innovative ideas without a firm commitment to integrate them into Fedora proper until they can be assured of sustainability...
freedesktop Closes Controversial Age Verification API Proposal
A proposed age verification interface for Linux desktops has been closed in the freedesktop XDG specs, following strong community feedback.
How to rebase to Fedora Silverblue 44 Beta
Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. This article provides the steps to rebase to the newly released Fedora Linux 44 Beta, and how to revert if anything unforeseen […]
New Steam Release Fixes Proton Games Wrongly Flagged as Unplayable
Also includes opt-in frame rate telemetry, hardware-tagged reviews, and several quality-of-life improvements.
Calamares Linux Graphical Installer Now Supports KDE’s Plasma Login Manager
Calamares 3.4.2 open-source universal graphical installer for GNU/Linux distributions is now available for download with support for Plasma Login Manager. Here’s what’s new!
NVIDIA 580.142 Production-Ready Linux Graphics Driver Released with Bug Fixes
NVIDIA 580.142 production-ready graphics driver for Linux is now available for download with various bug fixes to improve stability.
DevOps Tools Introduction #08: Container Infrastructure
While Docker makes it easy to start and manage containers, there must still be a base system hosting the containers. These systems form the infrastructure on which containers run and are covered by objective 702.3 of the DevOps Tools Engineer ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #08: Container Infrastructure appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
DevOps Tools Introduction #08: Container Infrastructure
While Docker makes it easy to start and manage containers, there must still be a base system hosting the containers. These systems form the infrastructure on which containers run and are covered by objective 702.3 of the DevOps Tools Engineer ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #08: Container Infrastructure appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Hyprland 0.54.2 Wayland Compositor Released with Multiple Crash Fixes
Hyprland 0.54.2 introduces crash fixes, layout improvements, and several stability patches backported from the main development branch.