New story! F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 11:23 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates...

New story! Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 9:52 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.…

New story! Git 2.51-rc0 Makes More Preparations For Git 3.0 Where It Will Use SHA-256 By Default

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 8:20 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system...

New story! Big Changes Ahead for MX Linux 25

MX Linux 25 will offer Wayland by default on KDE, separate init system ISOs, Secure Boot support, and discontinue 32-bit ISO images.

New story! NVIDIA Releases Linux Display Driver v580 Beta

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 4, 2025 5:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
NVIDIA drops 580.65 beta driver for Linux with Vulkan crash fixes, improved Wayland support, and new latency-reducing options for VR and gaming.

New story! NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 Available With Unified Arm Platform Support

Along with today's NVIDIA R580 Linux driver beta, the CUDA 13.0 toolkit is now available to download and depends upon the new R580 Linux driver series...

New story! Understanding Userspace Reboot (Soft Reboot) Operation In Linux

  • ostechnix.com; By Senthil Kumar (Posted by ostechnix on Aug 4, 2025 2:14 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
One of the most interesting and useful features in modern Linux distributions is the userspace reboot or soft reboot operation. Learn what userspace reboot is, its benefits, how it works, how to perform a userspace reboot in Linux.

New story! Customizing KDE Plasma 6 | Beautiful Sweet Violet Theme

In this video, I'm trying to customize the KDE Plasma theme, using KDE Plasma 6 on Endeavor OS. To make it easier for you to follow each step, you can see the Time Stamps I created below.

New story! NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better RISC-V Support

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 11:11 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
NetBSD 11.0 release preparations have begun. The NetBSD developers are hoping to officially release NetBSD 11.0 in October and for that to happen the release candidate would be out in September and daily beta builds can already be tested...

New story! Project Banana ripens into a pre-alpha for KDE Linux, and you can test it

Desktop project's in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for.…

New story! Legendary OpenPrinting architect looking for new role

Canonical lays off one of its old hands – a longstanding FOSS developer – after nearly two decades Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years.…

New story! Fedora for Architects: Open Source Tools for Architectural Design

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 6:37 AM CST)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
Why Fedora for Architects Architects depend on digital tools for every stage of design, from sketching to modelling and documentation. But many popular tools are expensive, closed-source, or limited to specific platforms. Fedora offers a fast, stable, and open environment for professional design work. With a growing ecosystem of free and open source software, architects […]

New story! Immich 1.137 Photo and Video Backup Arrives with Breaking Changes

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 3, 2025 10:23 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Immich 1.137 lands with breaking changes, major bug fixes, new beta timeline improvements, and custom shared link support.

New story! Intel QuickAssist Hit By Second Demotion In Linux 6.17 Due To Lack Of Kernel Benefit

A few days ago the Intel QuickAssist "QAT" accelerators were demoted by FSCRYPT in the Linux 6.17 development code due to being slow and bug prone with AVX-512 showing to be much faster than leveraging the QAT accelerators in this file encryption framework. With the Linux 6.17 crypto subsystem is a second separate demotion to Intel's QAT support for kernel use...

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 31 (Jul 28 – Aug 3, 2025)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 3, 2025 7:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kernel 6.16, HeliumOS 10, NetworkManager 1.54, GNU Binutils 2.45, Arch AUR under fire, Plasma 6.5 automatic light/dark theme, and more.

New story! GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 3, 2025 5:29 PM CST)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
The GNOME 49 Mutter beta release is now available for testing ahead of the stable release of GNOME 49 coming up In September...

New story! IceWM 3.8.2 Window Manager Brings New Icesh Actions

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 3, 2025 3:57 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
IceWM 3.8.2 window manager for X Window System adds a new “switchmenu” icesh action, improves window switching, and brings various bug fixes.

New story! Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See Many Fixes In Linux 6.17

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 3, 2025 2:26 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Earlier this year there was talk of Linux potentially dropping its Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers as they had been orphaned for a decade and proving to be a maintenance burden. Following that some developers stepped up to better maintain the code for HFS and HFS+ file-system support. In Linux 6.17 we are seeing some of the fruits of that work...

New story! Fastfetch 2.49 System Information Tool Brings Enhanced GPU Detection

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 3, 2025 10:26 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Fastfetch 2.49 improves GPU and ARM SoC detection and starts phasing out legacy config flags ahead of major changes in v2.50.

New story! Intel Layoffs Impact Linux Kernel Driver Development: What You Need to Know

  • linuxconfig.org; By Lucas Rees (Posted by linuxer on Aug 3, 2025 7:22 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Intel’s recent workforce reductions have sent ripples through the Linux kernel development community, potentially affecting the maintenance of critical hardware drivers and raising questions about long-term compatibility support. As one of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel, Intel’s organizational changes could impact how quickly new hardware receives upstream support and how existing drivers are maintained across multiple kernel versions.

New story! Modos Paper Monitor Brings High-Speed E-Paper to Developers

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Aug 3, 2025 4:56 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Modos Tech has announced the Modos Paper Monitor, a 13.3 inch open hardware e-ink display designed for real-time use. Unlike traditional e-paper, it supports refresh rates of 60 to 75 Hz with sub 100 ms latency, enabling smooth interaction and multiple image modes. The Modos Paper Monitor is powered by the Caster e-paper controller, which is built on a Xilinx […]

New story! FEX 2508 Delivers Major Speedups For x86_64 Binaries On ARM: 39% Faster Cyberpunk 2077

FEX 2508 as the open-source emulator that allows running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play, is boasting some "big juicy" optimizations with its new release. Many games are now significantly faster atop FEX...

New story! Linux 6.17 Getting More Rusty With Many Rust Language Additions

As has been the trend with recent Linux kernel releases, a lot of Rust programming language abstractions and other additions are coming for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...

New story! How to Change OS Icons for VirtualBox Guests

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 2, 2025 6:45 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Learn how to set your own custom OS icons for VirtualBox guests to make your virtual machines more visually organized and easier to identify.

New story! Linux 6.17 Memory Management Optimizations, DAMON_STAT & Other Improvements

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 2, 2025 5:14 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
All of the memory management "MM" changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window...

New story! KubeSphere Drops Open for Fauxpen — Blames It On AI or Something…

KubeSphere evidently failed to realize going in that open source means open, and is changing to a new proprietary license with “open source” in the name.

New story! LXD 6.5 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

LXD 6.5 is out now, bringing PCI hotplug, OIDC secret support, QEMU 9.1 compatibility, dark mode UI, and better VM directory disk hotplugging.

New story! GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 2, 2025 12:39 PM CST)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more. Newell v1.0 was released this week for advancing this GNOME AI virtual assistant...

New story! The Bots Never Sleep: In The Weekends, Slopfarms Dominate Google News, Majority of Entries in Google Are Fake Articles About 'Linux'

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Aug 2, 2025 11:08 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
Google is fast becoming an ocean of plagiarism; the same goes for Google News, which was supposed to have extra quality control

New story! KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged...

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