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The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design...
As Bambu Lab tightens its grip on its ecosystem, tools like Bambuddy are giving owners back control of hardware they paid for.
digiKam 9.1 open-source professional photo manager is now available for download with support for Pixel motion photos, timezone support with registered item time-stamps, and more. Here’s what’s new!
With Euro-Office due on Tuesday, and LibreOffice Online back in development, Collabora has plenty on the line with this new release. The post Collabora CODE 26.04: AI, Better Collab, in a Bid to Stay Ahead appeared first on FOSS Force.
The Document Foundation disputes Euro-Office’s “first European open-source office suite” claim and criticizes its OOXML default.
Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some concerns among users, but the plan is still for Ubuntu MATE to continue moving forward...
Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware...
Rspamd 4.1 lands with redesigned MX checks, load-aware upstreams, dynamic composites, stronger diagnostics, and broad security hardening.
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Can an unused machine really work as a lightweight Linux desktop?
Linux's ufshcd-pci as the Universal Flash Storage host controller PCI driver has supported a variety of Intel devices to this point while for Linux 7.2 the first AMD device is set to be added...
Proton confirms it is actively building a native Drive client for Linux, using its new SDK to bring encrypted file sync closer to desktop users.
In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein updated attendees on the fanotify filesystem-event monitoring subsystem. He wanted to describe changes that had come in the last year or so, as well as upcoming features and some remaining challenges in his efforts to use fanotify for hierarchical storage management (HSM). Fanotify is the user-space API for monitoring files, directories, and filesystems for events of various sorts (e.g. opening or deleting a file).
An open letter from the Document Foundation argues that Euro-Office isn’t what it claims—and may reinforce Microsoft’s ecosystem instead. The post LibreOffice Weighs In on Euro-Office and EU Digital Sovereignty appeared first on FOSS Force.
OpenCV 5.0 debuts a new DNN engine, broader ONNX support, VLM inference, C++17 requirements, and legacy API cleanup.
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