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With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.
It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification...
Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER...
UEFI Secure Boot keys, used to sign the first stage boot loader, are expiring in June 2026 (this month!) But that only means that Microsoft can no longer sign with them. Machines, both bare metal and virtual, will continue to boot long after June is over as long as the current public keys are not […]
OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors...
Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs...
Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced...
One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY...
With Collabora, Euro‑Office, and EU‑ready AI, Hub 26 Spring doubles down on documents, control, and sovereignty. The post Nextcloud Marks 10 Years With Hub 26 Spring, Euro‑Office, and Expanded AI appeared first on FOSS Force.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing. Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi and macOS 27 beta; Buildroot 2026.05; Ubuntu MATE; rsync 3.4.4; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
TrueNAS is now OpenShift certified, bringing enterprise Kubernetes storage support through its new official CSI driver.
ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform...
The distro ditches systemd as the init system while keeping some key components around.
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.16 adds Bluetooth keyboard passkey dialogs and improves the Open With dialog in COSMIC Files.
COSMIC 1.0.16 desktop environment is now available with improvements across COSMIC Files, COSMIC Panel, COSMIC Settings, COSMIC Player, COSMIC Greeter, and COSMIC Launcher.
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