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Vim Merges GTK4 Toolkit Support, Co-Authored-By Claude

20 May 2026

The GTK-based GUI version of the Vim text editor, gVim, now has support in place for the modern GTK4 toolkit as an alternative to its long present GTK2/GTK3 support...

Vim Merges GTK4 Toolkit Support, Co-Authored-By Claude

20 May 2026

Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages

19 May 2026

A year after SUSE decided to remove its Deepin desktop packages over ongoing security concerns, Fedora Linux is now also removing their Deepin packages over similar concerns and lack of activity in

Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages

19 May 2026

AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 Series SKUs From 8 To 84 Cores

19 May 2026

Back in late February AMD announced the EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series to succeed EPYC 8004 Siena. At the time details were light while today AMD published the SKU table and more details on the EPYC 8005

AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 Series SKUs From 8 To 84 Cores

19 May 2026

OpenBSD 7.9 Released With Support For Up To 255 x86_64 CPU Cores, WiFi 6

19 May 2026

Theo de Raadt announced the release today of OpenBSD 7.9 as the latest feature update to this unique BSD platform...

OpenBSD 7.9 Released With Support For Up To 255 x86_64 CPU Cores, WiFi 6

19 May 2026

Mageia 10 RC1 Released With Newer Packages

19 May 2026

Following the ISOs dropping a few days ago, today the Mageia 10 release candidate was officially announced for those fond of this Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to Mageia and Mandrake

Mageia 10 RC1 Released With Newer Packages

19 May 2026

Ubuntu Core 26 Released With Live Kernel Patching, Better OTA Updates

19 May 2026

Following last month's release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 26...

Ubuntu Core 26 Released With Live Kernel Patching, Better OTA Updates

19 May 2026

Linux 7.2 Will Fix The Intel P-State Driver For The New Bartlett Lake CPUs

19 May 2026

The fix is set to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel so the P-core-only Bartlett Lake processors will not report bogus maximum frequency values...

Linux 7.2 Will Fix The Intel P-State Driver For The New Bartlett Lake CPUs

19 May 2026

The Linux Kernel Working On A Rust-Based Untrusted Data API

19 May 2026

One of the newest interfaces being worked on for the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel is an Untrusted Data API for data received into the kernel from user-space...

The Linux Kernel Working On A Rust-Based Untrusted Data API

19 May 2026

OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Destined For Linux 7.2

19 May 2026

The latest Linux gaming handheld driver work by Derek Clark of Valve's Linux efforts is the OneXPlayer Configuration Driver that is now set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle...

OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Destined For Linux 7.2

19 May 2026

More Intel Open-Source Projects Formally Sunset: BigDL Time Series Toolkit & Others

18 May 2026

Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were

More Intel Open-Source Projects Formally Sunset: BigDL Time Series Toolkit & Others

18 May 2026

New Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver Code Now Cites Multiple Crescent Island SKUs

18 May 2026

The latest Intel Xe kernel graphics driver patches for Linux now indicate multiple PCI IDs for the upcoming Crescent Island "CRI" accelerators rather than just a lone model...

New Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver Code Now Cites Multiple Crescent Island SKUs

18 May 2026

Linux 7.2 Expected To Introduce "OPENAT2_REGULAR" To Avoid Tricking Secure Programs

18 May 2026

Among the VFS patches queued into "-next" branches ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window is the code for introducing the new OPENAT2\_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call...

Linux 7.2 Expected To Introduce "OPENAT2_REGULAR" To Avoid Tricking Secure Programs

18 May 2026

Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years

18 May 2026

The Linux 7.1 kernel performance has been looking quite good on the various Intel/AMD systems I have tested over the past three weeks. Linux 7.1 does bring some solid improvements over Linux 7.0

Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years

18 May 2026

Firefox 151 Now Available With Document Picture-in-Picture API

18 May 2026

Firefox 151 release binaries are now available as the latest monthly update to Mozilla's open-source web browser...

Firefox 151 Now Available With Document Picture-in-Picture API

18 May 2026

Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns

18 May 2026

Given all the recent Linux kernel security concerns and new bugs being discovered, the Linux cryptographic subsystem is proactively dropping zero-copy functionality from AF\_ALG due to growing

Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns

18 May 2026

AMD's Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated

18 May 2026

The Lemonade SDK for "refreshingly fast local AI" that is largely developed by AMD engineers as an open-source project continues advancing quite rapidly for serving optimized LLMs on GPUs and NPUs...

AMD's Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated

18 May 2026

gkh_clanker_t1000 & gkh_clanker_2000 Continue Uncovering Linux Kernel Bugs

18 May 2026

As first reported on Phoronix in early April, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has been leveraging new AI fuzzing tools for uncovering Linux kernel bugs. Prominent due to his position

gkh_clanker_t1000 & gkh_clanker_2000 Continue Uncovering Linux Kernel Bugs

18 May 2026

Linux 7.1-rc4 Released With Many Fixes, New Documentation For Security/AI Topics

17 May 2026

It was another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space that has culminated with the release of Linux 7.1-rc4...

Linux 7.1-rc4 Released With Many Fixes, New Documentation For Security/AI Topics

17 May 2026

Ubuntu Concept ISOs Published For CIX P1 AI CPU

17 May 2026

Similar to Canonical engineers having published "Ubuntu Concept" ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops to provide the very latest hardware-specific support that hasn't yet worked its way to

Ubuntu Concept ISOs Published For CIX P1 AI CPU

17 May 2026

Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux

17 May 2026

A new open-source project called low\_latency\_layer is an implicit Vulkan layer that enables AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 to reportedly work in a hardware-agnostic manner so that AMD and Intel

Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux

17 May 2026

Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux

17 May 2026

An open-source developer with the assistance of Claude Code has managed to get the Adobe Lightroom CC software working on Linux under Wine...

Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux

17 May 2026

FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration

17 May 2026

Last year the widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library introduced Apple ProRes video acceleration using shaders with the Vulkan API. Now FFmpeg has taken it a step further and can support

FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration

17 May 2026

Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix

17 May 2026

Ahead of the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro laptops beginning to ship in June, an audio microphone fix was merged this weekend to the mainline Linux kernel for these new Intel Panther Lake powered

Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix

17 May 2026

FluidX3D Lands A Big Speed-Up For This OpenCL CFD Software

17 May 2026

Released this week was FluidX3D 3.7, the latest feature update to this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that is CPU/GPU accelerated by way of OpenCL...

FluidX3D Lands A Big Speed-Up For This OpenCL CFD Software

17 May 2026

FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot

17 May 2026

In working toward the stable FreeBSD 15.1 release in early June, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 is out this weekend as the latest weekly test candidate...

FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot

17 May 2026