Linux NewsIntel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P, Introduces VM_BIND DECOMPRESS
Sent out this week were more Intel Xe driver feature patches to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window...
Vulkan 1.4.346 Released With Notable VK_KHR_device_address_commands
Vulkan 1.4.346 was published today with one big new extension in tow: VK_KHR_device_address_commands...
FreeRDP 3.24 Released With Security Fixes & Improved X11 Client Support
FreeRDP as this open-source and cross-platform Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation is out with FreeRDP 3.24 to ship new security fixes as well as other improvements...
JSFX on Fedora Linux: an ultra-fast audio prototyping engine
Introduction Writing a real-time audio plugin on Linux often conjures up images of a complex environment: C++, toolchains, CMake, CLAP / VST3 / LV2 SDK, ABI… However, there is a much simpler approach : JSFX This article offers a practical introduction to JSFX and YSFX on Fedora Linux: we’ll write some small examples, add a graphical […]
Calibre 9.5 E-Book Manager Released With Reading Progress Column
Calibre 9.5 introduces a reading progress column, enhancements to the e-book viewer, improved annotation filtering, and various bug fixes.
Linux 7.0 AMDGPU Fixing Idle Power Issue For RDNA4 GPUs After Compute Workloads
A fix is on the way to the Linux 7.0 kernel today for addressing an idle power issue with AMD RDNA4 GPUs reporting high power consumption and full utilization even after being "idle" following compute workloads like Llama.cpp...
Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux
For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space. Released yesterday was the Intel NPU Driver 1.30 milestone for advancing the Intel NPU user-space support on Linux with this open-source support for Core Ultra SoCs...
GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers Using Fastly
GNOME's GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots...
Intel Updates LLM-Scaler-vLLM With Support For More Qwen3/3.5 Models
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that makes it easy to deploy various large language models on modern Arc Graphics hardware is out with a new test release to expand its LLM coverage...
Calibre 9.5 E-Book Manager Introduces a New Tool to Remove Unused Images
Calibre 9.5 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
Customize Fedora Linux Workstation with Extension Manager
What are GNOME Shell extensions? Imagine that Fedora Workstation is your desk, and GNOME Shell extensions are small accessories you add to make it feel more personal. It’s like placing a pencil case on the right side, a lamp that helps you focus, or a small cabinet to keep your things from getting scattered. It’s […]
Google Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux
Google has announced that Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices this year. If you currently run Ubuntu or another Linux distribution on an ARM-based device, like the Raspberry Pi or a Snapdragon X Elite laptop, etc, you’ve had no official Google Chrome build available, only Chromium, the open-source project on which Chrome is based. The lack of an official Google Chrome ARM build for Linux has always been puzzling given that Chromium supports ARM, and lots of Chromebooks are ARM-based. Well, today (12 March, 2026) the search giant announced its proprietary browser is winging its way to Linux […]
Google Chrome on Linux is getting a big upgrade
You're not stuck with Chromium on ARM Linux anymore.
APTUI Introduces a Modern TUI for Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint Packages
APTUI is a new open-source terminal UI that simplifies APT package management for Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint users.
TrueNAS Connect Announced For Offering Enterprise Features Without The Hardware
Last year TrueNAS unified their SCALE and CORE offerings as part of solidifying their enterprise storage efforts around Linux from their prior FreeBSD base. This year the developers at iXsystems have another change in store with announcing TrueNAS Connect as a new bridge for accessing TrueNAS enterprise storage features without having to invest in their hardware...