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As part of my various year-end comparison benchmarking, I recently ran some tests looking at how the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA 4 performance has evolved since its debut near the beginning of the year. The Vulkan ray-tracing performance in particular was standing out this year as having evolved quite nicely while for conventional OpenGL and Vulkan performance the performance has been largely stable this year with its great at-launch support.

OpenShot 3.4 video editor delivers a 32% performance boost, new video effects, faster exports, and an experimental timeline aimed at smoother, more reliable editing.

The ZLUDA open-source project that has been through several incarnations but ultimately about getting CUDA software up and running on non-NVIDIA GPUs now supports the AMD ROCm 7 series...

Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 25.12 introduces panel and menu improvements, a revamped update notifier, and completes the transition away from the aging GTK2 toolkit.

While FreeBSD 15 stable was officially released earlier this month, MidnightBSD continues plotting its own course atop its FreeBSD 13 base. Out today is MidnightBSD 4.0 as the latest iteration of this desktop-minded BSD operating system...

Patrick d’Emmabuntüs from the Emmabuntüs Collective informed 9to5Linux.com today about the release and general availability of Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.00 as the latest stable version of this GNU/Linux distribution for refurbishing old computers.

Rhino Linux 2025.4 introduces new Lomiri packages, improved PINE64 support, and multiple kernel updates across supported devices.

Last year Red Hat acquired Neural Magic as part of their AI acquisitions and to bolster the open-source AI ecosystem. Today they announced another AI acquisition...

As Europe flirts with “reliable proprietary technologies” and India rolls out open source healthcare AI, Amanda Brock is drawing a sharp line between genuine openness, marketing spin, and outright control.

In this article, you will learn how to use the time command to determine the execution time of a command or shell script taken by your system or server in Linux.

A KDE developer introduces KDE Ni! OS, a light-hearted but practical experiment that brings immutable Linux concepts to KDE using NixOS.

Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainline kernel, he raised issue over the lack of review/action to Linus Torvalds and the mailing lists. In particular, seeking more guidance for how new LSMs should be introduced and raised the possibility of taking the issue to the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB)...

DietPi 9.20 is out with RustDesk Server support, USB improvements for Orange Pi boards, kernel updates, and multiple stability and bug fixes.

Emmabuntüs DE 6 launches with a Debian 13.2 base with accessibility improvements, new speech tools, and enhanced support for visually impaired users.

Longtime Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede who worked on many Intel/AMD laptop enhancements over the years left Red Hat and ended up joining Qualcomm. Now it turns out one of his projects at Qualcomm is enhancing the Fedora Linux support for running nicely out-of-the-box on Snapdragon-powered Windows on ARM laptops...

The development team behind Scribus, an open-source and cross-platform desktop publishing app, released version 1.6.5 today as yet another minor update to the Scribus 1.6 stable series.

In this article, you will learn everything about the type command, including its different options (with practical examples).

Toradex has announced the Luna SL1680, a SBC that introduces the company’s new “Pro Consumer” product tier. Positioned between consumer development boards and fully industrial hardware, the platform targets applications such as smart kiosks, light industrial systems, and advanced maker projects. The Luna SL1680 is built around the Synaptics SL1680 system-on-chip, which integrates a quad-core […]

One of the lesser known Fedora spins under the "Fedora Labs" initiative is the Fedora Games Lab that showcases some open-source games and can serve as an easy demonstrator for Linux gaming. Looking forward to 2026 with Fedora 44, there is a proposal to revitalize Fedora Games Lab to become a better showcase for the modern potential of Linux gaming...

This data project details the shift to an In-Situ ELT workflow showcases a hybrid RStudio/Python environment essential for transforming today’s analysts into "Data Ops."