Linux NewsCalibre 9.9 E-Book Manager Improves EPUB Page Counting
Calibre 9.9 adds accurate page counts for fixed-layout EPUBs, keeps searches across Virtual libraries, and fixes SSL loading on Fedora 44.
KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics
KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design...
O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements
It's been nearly five years already since the start of O3DE as the Open 3D Engine that began as Amazon's Lumberyard project spun into an open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Out this week is O3DE 26.05 for shipping the latest improvements to this cross platform game engine...
GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience
The upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today's high resolution displays...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Dirk and Linus talk; BPF and GCC; private memory modes; BPF page-cache policies; major page faults; LLM kernel review; tiered-memory support; transparent huge pages; page mappings; Model Openness Tool. Briefs: Stenberg security stress; GTK PDF problems; Morton 2004 keynote; OpenBSD 7.9; Bambu's AGPLv3 violations; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Latest Steam Client Update Improves Steam Controller Support on Linux
A new stable Steam Client update is now available with better support for Valve's new Steam Controller on Linux, as well as improvements to in-game overlay, Steam Input, and Remote Play.
Don't Expect a Raspberry Pi 6 Until At Least 2028
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton confirmed that in a Reddit AMA recently.
I Tried Firefox Smart Window, and It Won Me Over a Little
Mozilla's new AI browsing mode is in limited beta, and it's more capable than I expected.
Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series
Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...
Ubuntu Gets Workshop for Reproducible Development Environment
Canonical’s Workshop lets developers define Ubuntu dev environments in YAML and reproduce them across machines with a single command.
Interview session with Jonathan Corbet
The Linux Foundation will be hosting a live interview with LWN co-founder Jonathan Corbet. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 2 at 8:00AM Pacific daylight time (UTC-7). Registration is open for those who would like to attend.
Canonical Launches Ubuntu Workshop for Sandboxed Development Environments
Ubuntu maker Canonical launched today a new tool for developers called Workshop, which lets you launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command.
Zen Browser 1.20 Adds Boosts for Per-Site Web Customization
Zen Browser 1.20 introduces Boosts, letting users customize website colors, fonts, styles, page elements, and dark mode.
How Kubernetes Came to Dominate Large-Scale Computing, Part 1
Dozens of vendors are wooing organizations of all sizes to adopt cloud services. But the hot item that all the experts are recommending to developers and system administrators is Kubernetes. Master Kubernetes, and you can run programs on any cloud ... Read more The post How Kubernetes Came to Dominate Large-Scale Computing, Part 1 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++
NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware...