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In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency...
Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...
We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware...
OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption all via this single open-source utility...
PhotoSuite is a free, open-source image editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS, offering a Photoshop-like workflow and native PSD/PSB support.
Kagi has announced it is ending development of its Orion web browser for Linux to focus on the macOS and iOS versions. A native GTK Linux port of Orion was announced in 2025 and a public beta launched earlier this year. The goal had been to offer feature parity with the macOS version. While recent updates have edged closer, it seems that’s where it’ll remain – for now. Kagi will make Orion for Linux – and the WIP Orion for Windows port – open-source so that the wider FOSS community to step up to “carry them forward”. “Orion is built […]
Arm sent out an initial set of patches this week working on support in the Linux kernel for TLBI Domains. This "TLBID" feature is an upcoming Arm architecture capability designed to increase performance on high core count systems...
The list of inspirations for both Windows and Linux is rather long and it goes as far back as the 1960s.
Parrot OS 7.4 rolls out with Linux kernel 7.1, AnonSurf 6.0, refreshed security tools, updated Raspberry Pi images, and package improvements.
Parrot OS 7.4 security-oriented distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, updated tools, optimized builds, updated Raspberry Pi and ARM images, and other changes.
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Microsoft is giving Rust first-class internal support alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript, with production-ready tooling and integration.
Over the past year Timur KristĂłf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, KristĂłf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in user-space focused on the Mesa 3D driver code...
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Linaro engineer Vincent Guittot sent out a set of patches on Friday working on scheduling latency improvements, especially when multiple short slice tasks are running concurrently on the same system...
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