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Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver...
In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)...
Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed...
The lightweight distro will ship the XLibre display server in its upcoming Debian and Devuan ISO refreshes, and it says it has no plans to switch to Wayland for the foreseeable future.
The 2026 Open Data Infrastructure Report finds 62% of current users already run OpenSearch for AI workloads.
The OpenShot video editor is now available on the Canonical Snap Store. An official snap package of the Qt-based non-linear editing tool went live today, September 22. Users can install the new snap from App Center (older Deb packages are carried in the Ubuntu archives, so will appear too). OpenShot 4.0’s big release in August added a swathe of improvements, including long-awaited colour grading tools, better multitrack recording and better integration with ComfyUI AI. sudo snap install openshot-qt The sandboxed version of OpenShot isn’t quite “install and go”. It will require users to grant explicit permissions before the app can […]
The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support...
Linux, but without the ultra-granular, chaotic base.
The company’s permanently free security platform for up to 25 machines is now available to organizations running Debian and Ubuntu, as well as AlmaLinux. The post Codenotary Expands Its No-Strings-Attached Linux Security Deal appeared first on FOSS Force.
KDE’s 2026–2028 goals include stronger enterprise support, consolidated documentation, and a unified styling system.
An all-new Ubuntu Wiki has gone live, giving the site its first substantive overhaul since 2010. The new wiki is powered by MediaWiki, and brings a slate of feature that improve both backend and frontend features for users. It’ll be easier for editors to maintain and work with, but also Canonical’s own ISV engineers who need to keep it running. Another reason for a revamp is the Ubuntu as a project has changed since the wiki was setup in 2006. In years past, internal documentation, governance details, schedules and procedures were housed (in some cases co-ordinated thorough) the Ubuntu wiki. Today, […]
A resurfacing firmware lock is catching out new buyers and tinkerers who want to revive dead hardware.
The feature is currently in testing on Android, with iOS support still a bit far away.
VLC 3.0.24 open-source media player is now available for download with an APV decoder, Atrac3/Atrac9 decoding, FFmpeg 8.1 support, support for CEA-708 closed captions in MP4, and more.
Obscura VPN has launched a native Linux app, giving desktop users an easier way to access it (without wrangling Wireguard configuration files). Linux isn’t short of VPN providers, but Obscura, founded by former Bitcoin Core contributor Carl Dong, has a different pitch to most. Rather than your traffic being routed through a single provider, Obscura VPN uses a two-step relay: it acts as the ‘entry node’ (seeing your original IP address) while another VPN provider, Mullvad, acts as the ‘exit node’ (the websites you visit). Obscura’s Linux app also supports the QUIC-based stealth protocol, which disguises your VPN connection as […]
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