Linux NewsKrita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 Released With New Text Engine and Wayland HDR Support
Krita 5.3 delivers a new text engine and updated tools, alongside Krita 6.0, the Qt 6-based release with early Wayland support.
Krita 6.0 Digital Painting App Released with Wayland Color Management Support
Krita 6.0 open-source digital painting app is now available for download with Wayland color management support, Qt 6 port, and more. Here’s what's new!
10 beginner-friendly Linux distros that aren’t Mint (and why you might prefer them)
These beginner-friendly Linux distros offer different looks, features, and workflows.
Pop!_OS 24.04 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Development Benchmarks
While having the new System76 Thelio Mira desktop in the lab, I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks to see how Pop!_OS 24.04 is currently performing relative to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for which it is based as well as looking ahead at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in its current near-final development form is looking on the same hardware.
You've heard wrong: Pop!_OS isn't the best beginner Linux distro
Why convenience features do not always translate to beginner friendliness.
NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build
Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch...
Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes
Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked...
Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support
Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit...
Linux 7.1 To Overcome Reporting Limitation For Multiple Batteries Per HID Device
A limitation affecting various gaming headsets, graphic tablets, wireless earbuds, multi-device receivers and more with Linux has been not being able to report multiple batteries per HID device. After patches were proposed last year for dealing with the increasingly common scenario these days of having multiple batteries per device, the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is set to address this limitation...
OpenBLAS 0.3.32 Brings Improved Detection Of Newer Intel CPUs
OpenBLAS 0.3.32 is now available for this optimized open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library. Notable with the OpenBLAS 0.3.32 release is improving CPU auto-detection for newer Intel processors...
Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172
Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new "RDNA 4m" branding. It's part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new "4m" branding. In follow-up commits they made further ISA changes distinguishing it from existing RDNA 3 GPUs. Now there are two more RDNA 4m targets being added...
NVIDIA Talks Up "Expanding The Open-Source Horizon" Around AI & Kubernetes
KubeCon Europe is running this week in Amsterdam and NVIDIA used the event to talk up their open-source work around AI and newest open-source contributions...
Firefox 149 brings free VPN, tab splits and better Linux integration
The Firefox 149 update is now rolling out to users, adding a new split view feature, a free built-in VPN and a welcome Linux-specific change. Split View in Firefox lets you view two web pages side-by-side inside a single browser window, which is a cleaner approach than how you might have been doing this previously, i.e., snapping two separate browser windows against each other. With Split View (versus the old method) all your tabs stay together, there’s no duplicated window chrome eating up screen space and closing or rearranging the split won’t disturb the rest of your browsing session (no […]
Sold Out ‘All Things AI’ Is Livestreaming So Everybody Who Wanted to Go Can Still Be There
No badge, no problem: from whurley’s keynotes to deep‑dive engineer sessions, much of All Things AI's lineup is streaming live for anyone who wants in. The post Sold Out ‘All Things AI’ Is Livestreaming So Everybody Who Wanted to Go Can Still Be There appeared first on FOSS Force.
LibreOffice is Adding a Donation Banner That Might Annoy Some Users
The feature has already been merged into LibreOffice 26.8's development builds.