Linux NewsSystem76 Launches New COSMIC-Powered Thelio Mira High-Performance Linux PC
System76 launches the next-generation Thelio Mira Linux desktop computer with Pop!_OS Linux 24.04 LTS and the COSMIC desktop environment.
OpenJDK 26 Released With The Java Applet API Finally Removed
OpenJDK 26 is out today as the newest GA reference version for the Java SE platform. With Java 26, it's finally time to say a goodbye to the Java Applet API...
FSFE reports trouble with payment provider
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is reporting that payment provider Nexi has terminated its contract without prior notice, which means that a number of FSFE supporters' recurring payments have been halted: Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. ("Nexi") requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters. We have refused this request. All our attempts to clarify Nexi's request, or to understand how their need for such information was necessary and legal, were met with what we consider to be vague and unsatisfactory explanations relating to a general need for risk analysis. [...] The decisions that Nexi has made are incomprehensible to us. Over the last months, as part of a security audit that Nexi claimed to be conducting, we have provided them with large amounts of the FSFE's financial documentation, which even included private information of our executive staff. We have answered al
Blender 5.1 Launches With Big Speed Improvements Across Animation, Rendering, and UI
Blender 5.1 is out now with faster action and shapekey evaluation, better GPU rendering, new compositor and geometry nodes, and Linux-specific updates.
UN Creates Open Source Portal
In a quest to strengthen open source collaboration, the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology has created a new portal.
AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs
AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features...
DevOps Tools Introduction #09: Machine Deployment
In previous discussions about DevOps tools, we explored container virtualization and how containers transformed the way applications are packaged and deployed. One of the major advantages of containers is their extremely fast startup time combined with minimal resource overhead compared ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #09: Machine Deployment appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
TUXEDO Gemini 17 AMD Linux Laptop Debuts with Ryzen 9
TUXEDO unveils the Gemini 17 AMD laptop with a Ryzen 9 9955HX CPU, RTX 5060 graphics, and full Linux support, with TUXEDO OS or Ubuntu preinstalled.
AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Begins Supporting RISC-V
The community-focused, RHEL/CentOS-derived AlmaLinux distribution announced its support today for the RISC-V CPU ISA with AlmaLinux Kitten 10 builds being made available...
TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux Laptop Now Available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux laptop is now available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, up to 128 GB RAM, and up to 16TB storage.
[$] Fedora ponders a "sandbox" technology lifecycle
Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Jef Spaleta has issued a "modest proposal" for a technology-innovation-lifecycle process that would provide more formal structure for adopting technologies in Fedora. The idea is to spur innovation in the project without having an adverse impact on stability or the release process. Spaleta's proposal is somewhat light on details, particularly as far as specific examples of which projects would benefit; however, the reception so far is mostly positive and some think that it could make Fedora more "competitive" by being the place where open-source projects come to grow.
Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws
And thankfully, it's more than just a Linux distro without age verification.
KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Released With Dozens of Bug Fixes Across Desktop and KWin
KDE Plasma 6.6.3 introduces a wide range of bug fixes that enhance stability in KWin, Discover, and the overall desktop environment.
KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Makes KWin’s Screencasting Feature More Robust for PipeWire 1.6
KDE Plasma 6.6.3 is now available as the third maintenance update in the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.
4 Linux init systems that almost replaced systemd (and why they failed)
The other ways Linux handled startup before everything converged.