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The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on Linux systems...
Erik Faye-Lund who has contributed to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack working on areas like Zink and most notably the PanVK Vulkan and Panfrost Gallium3D drivers forr Arm Mali hardware is now working directly for Arm...
The Linux Mint project today published their August 2026 development report, including some new applications added to their XApp collection...
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely speculated to be with Valve's involvement -- that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle, the bulk of that work will now be in place and enabled by default...
While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the "main" branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming around the end of 2026), Git 2.56-rc0 is now available for testing...
Intel's Thermald released on Thursday as the newest update to this daemon for thermal monitoring on Intel hardware that was also recently extended for beginning to support Qualcomm/ARM hardware too. The main change with Thermald 2.5.13 is adding back Intel Wildcat Lake platform support after it was accidentally removed in the prior release...
For those continuing to rely on the GCC 13 compiler in production that debuted more than three years ago, GCC 13.5 released today with more than 265 bug fixes. GCC 13.5 also caps off the GCC 13 series as the last planned point release...
GIMP 3.2.6 has arrived, a new maintenance update in the 3.2.x series that made a splash earlier this year. You won’t find any major new features, but plenty of improvements – not least in font handling. GIMP say font loading is faster, with start-up times, Text tool typing and closing large font lists all nippier when lots of fonts are installed. The team note “some lag remains”, and solving that would require a GTK4 port – for which some initial prep has begun. On the editing side, Cut now works on layer groups; Color Picker can picks up filters applied […]
Ubuntu 26.10 is getting a newer kernel than planned: Canonical has switched its target from Linux 7.2 to Linux 7.3.
These thirteen patches would delete the deprecated platform code, and the driver cleanup will follow later.
The fifth (and final planned) point release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available to download. Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS brings refreshed installation media (ISOs) that includes of the software updates, bug fixes and security patches released since the last ISO was produced. This cuts down on the number of updates that need to downloaded post-install. More important than that, this release runs on a new hardware enablement (HWE) stack, back-ported from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The 24.04.5 LTS HWE stack brings the Linux 7.0 kernel and Mesa 26.0 GPU drivers (plus some other key hardware-related packages) to those who need to […]
GIMP 3.2.6 open-source image editor is now available for download with new rotation stylus dynamics input, UX improvements, OS and platform specific improvements, and security updates.
In addition to August bringing the long-awaited Haiku R1 Beta 6 release, there was also a lot of development progress on this BeOS-inspired operating system too during the course of the past month...
GIMP 3.2.6 improves text and font performance, adds layer-group cutting, expands stylus dynamics, and delivers several workflow refinements.
A heritage of dumb terminals and 1980s workstations still leaves Linux rooted in text tools and unconventional window behaviors.
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