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Linux kernel 6.14 introduces NT sync primitives for faster gaming, improved Btrfs RAID1 read balancing, GPU memory control, and more.

Less than a week after IBM announced that it was donating three open source AI tools to the Linux Foundation, FOSS Force learns that Kubernetes-focused Mirantis is is the process of donating a couple of project to CNCF.

Among the earliest of pull requests this week ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window expected to begin tomorrow were the media subsystem updates. In addition to continuing to improve the common "uvcvideo" web camera driver and other routine refinements, there is also some new media hardware support slated to be included as part of the Linux 6.15 kernel...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: EndeavourOS Mercury Neo, Elementary OS 8.0.1, Kali 2025.1a, GNOME 48, GIMP 3, Hyprland 0.48, Wine 10.4, Git 2.49, EU OS on the horizon, and more.

Last weekend FreeDesktop.org began transitioning to their new server/cloud infrastructure after recently finding out their sponsored Equinix Metal services were shutting down. Following the complex migration process this past week, FreeDesktop.org GitLab is up and running on the Hetzner server infrastructure in Germany...

The release of Fedora 42 is only a month or so away, so the folks who engineer the project are calling for the user community to help, in a Test Week that starts on Monday.

KDE developers continue pushing ahead with new feature development on the Plasma 6.4 desktop to further refine Plasma 6...

Rescuezilla 2.6 open-source disk imaging app adds support for new hardware, updates UEFI Secure Boot shim, and temporarily removes Firefox in the Oracular release variant.

The Endeavour OS enthusiast Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux is out with its March 2025 ISO refresh under the codename "Mercury Neo" for this spin featuring the latest software packages...

EndeavourOS Mercury Neo is out now, featuring updated core packages, bug fixes, and improvements for both online and offline installation options.

Coming out this week was an updated AVX10 whitepaper from Intel with the surprising decision that 512-bit floating point and integer support is no longer considered optional for AVX10.2. AVX10.2 now mandates 128 / 256 / 512-bit support and in turn also dropped the 256-bit embedded rounding support with the focus on 512-bit. The LLVM/Clang compiler had seen its AVX10 support designed around Intel's original AVX10 design assumptions and thus now is being modified to address these changes...

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Hyprland 0.48 tiling Wayland compositor is out with major improvements including ANR dialogs, full color management, sync fixes, and more.

Rescuezilla 2.6 was released today as the latest stable version of this Ubuntu-based “Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery” distribution that leverages the popular Clonezilla open-source disk imaging/cloning software.

This past week a lot of new code for the Rust "gccrs" front-end began being merged for the upcoming GCC 15.1 stable release... The Polonius borrow checker landed along with other big improvements to the Rust code ahead of this annual GNU Compiler Collection release. A third round was merged on Friday adding yet more gccrs features...

Google engineers propose LUO, a state-machine-driven system to manage live Linux kernel updates with minimal disruption.

The EndeavourOS team announced today the release and general availability of EndeavourOS Mercury Neo as a maintenance update to the EndeavourOS Mercury release addressing various issues and updating core components.

PhotoPrism's latest release adds PDF support, improved UI, and new translations and sets the stage for upcoming batch editing and multi-user features.

Today, Ryan Finnie announced the release and general availability of Finnix 250 (codename Eau Claire) as the latest stable version for this Debian-based live Linux distro targeting casual system administrators.

EU OS is a new—still in the idea stage—Fedora-based Linux project designed to provide the EU public sector with secure, sovereign, and eco-friendly computing.