Linux NewsSound Open Firmware 2.15 Released With AMD ACP 7.x Support, Intel UAOL
Sound Open Firmware as the open-source, vendor-independent audio DSP firmware stack and driver framework is out today with a new feature update...
Firefox 157 Beta Released With Latest Enhancements
The Firefox release train keeps on rolling. With Firefox 156 released, Firefox 157 is now in beta ahead of the planned release coming up at the end of September...
New Linux Patches Improving Hibernation Speed In 2026
A new patch series being worked on is enhancing the Linux kernel's hibernation allocator to allow for faster performance when hibernating the system...
Raspberry Pi Desktop Overhauled On Raspberry Pi OS, Adds Icon Dock
The Raspberry Pi Desktop on Raspberry Pi OS has seen a major overhaul to better modernize the desktop computing experience on the ARM64 single board computers...
Linux Patch Coming To Fix Under-Reported AMD Zen 5 TLB Sizes
A minor reporting issue on Linux that has gone unaddressed until now is for properly conveying the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) sizes on AMD Zen 5 processors...
OpenAPV Sees Big Update For Advancing The Advanced Professional Video Codec
OpenAPV as the open-source reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec today saw its v1.1.1 release, succeeding v0.3.0 as the prior release...
GNU Coreutils 9.12 Gives Linux’s Everyday Commands Some New Tricks
The latest GNU coreutils release adds safer environment handling, new uname output, and behavior changes to some of Linux’s most familiar terminal commands. The post GNU Coreutils 9.12 Gives Linux’s Everyday Commands Some New Tricks appeared first on FOSS Force.
Firefox 156 reduces CPU usage when viewing JPGs
Firefox 156 is out with faster start-up times for its built-in PDF viewer and lower CPU usage when viewing large JPEG images. This is the second release since Mozilla moved to a twice-monthly release schedule. As you browse the web you (pretty much always) see images smaller than their native resolution. To wit, if I embed a 4K JPEG in this post, for example, you don’t see it at full size: it’s downscaled to fit on the page. Same amount of pixel data, but squeezed by CSS. In Firefox 156, the browser now uses libjpeg-turbo’s IDCT scaling to reduce images […]
GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released with Faster sort, cut, and uniq Commands
GNU Coreutils 9.12 is out with performance improvements for several widely used commands, a new env option, safer terminal output, and many bug fixes.
Mozilla Firefox 156 Released with Up to 45% Faster PDF Viewer
Mozilla releases Firefox 156 with a faster built-in PDF viewer, lower resource usage for large JPEGs, Android improvements, and multiple fixes.
Linux works better on gaming handhelds than laptops—and that’s embarrassing
Focused collaboration between chipset vendors and distro teams yields polished power and performance on handhelds.
GNU Core Utilities 9.12 released
Pádraig Brady has announced GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) version 9.12. "There have been 288 commits by 16 people in the 21 weeks since 9.11". New features include an -A option for uname which labels all output, as well as adding awareness of the failfs and nullfs file types to stat and tail. There are many in this release as well, including a fix for a bug "present in 'the beginning'" that caused some utilities to fail when traversing hierarchies if files are being removed in parallel.
openEuler and the Race to Build Asia's AI Infrastructure
openEuler is an open-source project incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation. The community is expanding international collaboration through local user groups, industry partnerships, and participation in global open-source events.
[$] Lessons learned as the Debian Project Leader
What is it like to be a Debian Project Leader (DPL), or a former one? According to Andreas Tille, who stepped down this year after two consecutive terms as DPL, you'd have to be one to know. At the recent MiniDebConf in Winterthur, Switzerland, Tille spoke about what he learned while serving as DPL, some of the initiatives he led, mistakes that he made, and his thoughts on the general resolution (GR) on large language model (LLM) usage in Debian.
Conflux icon set gives a modern look to Linux desktops
Conflux is a new Linux icon set that aims to be both beautiful but neutral – I think it succeeds at both. The author of Conflux said they struggled to find a “modern-looking” icon pack for their desktop, deigning many as overly stylistic, outdated or, in some cases, poorly designed. Another impetus to solve was the way un-themed icons look. “Conflux should blend seamlessly into your system”, reads the Github page, “so that you don’t even notice you’re using an icon theme.” Few of us use the same set of apps, and few icons sets cover every thing (not least […]