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Intel's Linux NPU User-Space Driver Adds Panther Lake Support
Since late 2024 Intel has been working on 5th Gen NPU support for their Linux IVPU driver. That 5th Gen NPU support for Intel Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs was upstreamed back in Linux 6.13. Now today the Intel Linux NPU user-space driver has seen its official support added for Panther Lake...
2025 Brought "Transformative Changes" For FreeBSD On Laptops
As we have been covering over the past year, major investments have been made to better the outlook for running FreeBSD on laptop hardware. From WiFi driver improvements to enhancing suspend/resume, power management, graphics drivers, and other features, it's been a big undertaking to make FreeBSD work better on laptops. The FreeBSD Foundation calls 2025 as having brought "transformative changes" for the FreeBSD laptop experience...
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Plans Confirmed For Linux 6.20 / Linux 7.0
Canonical confirmed their Linux kernel plans today for the Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release due out in April...
Cloud Hypervisor 50 Released With QCOW2 Compression, Performance Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor 50.0 is out today for this cloud-minded, security-focused and Rust-based hypervisor. Cloud Hypervsior began as an open-source Intel project while in more recent times has shifted to being largely maintained by Microsoft, Crusoe, Cyberus Tech, Rivos, and others...
Mageia 10 Planning For April Release While Still Maintaining 32-bit Support
The Mageia development team recently met to solidify their plans for releasing Mageia 10 as the next major release of this LInux distribution with its roots that trace back to the days of Mandrake Linux...
Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it's a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions...
Cryptsetup 2.8.2 Released With BitLocker Clear Key Support
Cryptsetup 2.8.2 released on Thursday for this open-source utility used for setting up disk encryption with dm-crypt on Linux systems, including for LUKS volumes, TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and other formats...
Kdenlive 25.12 Brings New Layouts, Better Vertical Video Editing + More
Kdenlive has issued an end-of-year update, and it brings configurable layouts and a smarter way to handle vertical video projects. Kdenlive 25.12.0 introduces a new docking system, which the editor’s developers describe as ‘more flexible’. You can group widgets you want together and quickly show or hide them. Layout can be saved as a file (making them shareable) as well as part of the project file itself. The latter change could prove incredibly handy for those working on different kinds of edits, as it means any customised/re-arrange layout is restored whenever the project is reopened. “The downside”, Kdenlive devs note, […]
The First Rust CVE in Linux Kernel Only Makes Your System Crash
Greg Kroah-Hartman announced this alongside 150+ C code vulnerabilities that were addressed.
Arch Linux Makes Its WSL Image Fully Reproducible Across Builds
Arch Linux has made its official WSL image fully reproducible, ensuring bit-for-bit identical builds using archived repositories and normalized timestamps.
Armbian Team Launches New Official Imager for Flashing Armbian OS
The Armbian team has launched a new official imager that simplifies flashing Armbian OS on single-board computers across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Firefox Will Ship with an “AI Kill Switch” to Completely Disable all AI Features
Mozilla is working on an AI kill switch for the Firefox open-source web browser to let users completely disable all AI features.
OpenZFS 2.4 Released With Faster Encryption Performance, Many Other Improvements
OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support...
Kdenlive 25.12 Released With Interface and Workflow Improvements
Kdenlive 25.12 open-source video editor introduces a new docking system, redesigned menus, improved markers, audio monitor updates, and more.