Linux NewsKDE Linux Adds Automatic Btrfs Snapshots, Reaches 85% of Beta Goal
KDE Linux made major progress in August with automatic Btrfs snapshots, Dolphin file rollback, security improvements, and several important fixes.
systemd 262-rc1 Released With Live Update Orchestrator Integration & More
Debuting today is systemd 262-rc1 as the first test release of this next major update to this Linux init system and service manager...
Linux Changes For CPPC On Zen 6 Clients - Hard-Coded Default Puts Low-Power Core At 0.47x
Following yesterday's Linux kernel patches for tuning ACPI EPP for Ryzen Zen 6 client processors, another patch series made it out on the mailing list with adjustments for ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) with upcoming Zen 6 client processors...
Intel Graphics Driver Introducing Cold Reset Recovery For Linux 7.4, Panther Lake IBC v3
While the Linux 7.3 merge window just wrapped up this weekend, on Monday Intel already sent out their first feature pull request of new Xe kernel graphics driver material that is destined for Linux 7.4...
The Linux Kernel AI Flood, Linux 7.2 Release & Other August Highlights
It was a very busy month of August with the Linux kernel developers continue to be flooded with AI/LLM-generated patches and bug reports. Plus there was the general resolution on AI usage within the Debian project and other open-source projects now evolving in the AI era. With the Linux 7.2 stable release and Linux 7.3 merge window, the past month was all the more eventful...
EDAC Changes Merged For Linux 7.3 After Being Forgotten About During The Merge Window
While the Linux 7.3 merge window officially closed on Sunday with the Linux 7.3-rc1 release, the Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem changes were mistakenly forgotten about during the two week window. The pull request ended up being sent out on Monday evening and the late feature changes were already merged to Git...
Firefox 155 brings AI-powered Smart Window to more countries
Firefox 155 is out, the first to arrive as part of the browser’s new twice-monthly release schedule. This update brings Firefox’s AI-powered Smart Window browsing mode to users in the USA, Canada and France. It’s still opt-in (for now), and is powered by your choice of AI model from Alibaba, OpenAI and Google. Mozilla’s also added changes to entice you to chat more (“personalised resume conversation starters”), made the assistant faster at responding with Exa web search citations and made the Smart Window Organise Tabs better at grouping related tabs. If none of that floats your boat, you can remove […]
Firefox 156 Enters Beta Testing with Improved Memory and CPU Usage
Firefox 156 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with improved memory and CPU usage when displaying large JPEG images scaled down to fit a page.
Ubuntu’s IRC support channels to be ‘sunset’, some aren’t happy
Getting is planning to ‘sunset’ IRC as an official support method, and some long-time users aren’t happy. The recently Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS release announcement didn’t include a link to the Ubuntu Support IRC channel under its “if you have a question” section – though, from looking, the last announcement to list IRC was the one for Ubuntu 24.10). Even so: it led some to ask what the status of the #ubuntu-support channel on IRC Aaron Rainbolt, an Ubuntu Community Council member, said the omission was likely “accidental” in a reply posted to a followup discussion on Ubuntu’s Discourse, titled “Keep […]
Rust-Based uutils Coreutils 0.11 Brings Faster Performance, Better Error Messages
The latest uutils Coreutils release speeds up cp and join, introduces modern diagnostics, and pushes GNU compatibility past 95%.
KDE Linux Now Providing Automatic Btrfs Snapshots For All User Files
With the end of the month comes a new monthly status report from the KDE Linux project as their in-house distribution project...
NVIDIA Posts Linux Scheduler Patches To Further Boost SMT Performance On NVIDIA Vera
Hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today is a new kernel scheduler patch series to enable preferred SMT siblings for NVIDIA Vera with its Olympus cores...
Mozilla Firefox 155 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 15 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for Happy Eyeballs v3 for faster page loading and many other changes.
Kdenlive 26.08 Video Editor Adds Track Reordering, Better Timeline Editing
Kdenlive 26.08 is out with long-awaited track reordering, multi-clip speed controls, automatic audio track creation, and 11 crash fixes.
Firefox 155 Brings Faster Page Loading, Tracker Counts
Mozilla Firefox 155 adds faster connections, visible tracker-blocking counts, reorderable containers, and several important Linux fixes.