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NVIDIA drops 580.65 beta driver for Linux with Vulkan crash fixes, improved Wayland support, and new latency-reducing options for VR and gaming.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.…

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.…

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 […]

Immich 1.137 lands with breaking changes, major bug fixes, new beta timeline improvements, and custom shared link support.

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...

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.

The GNOME 49 Mutter beta release is now available for testing ahead of the stable release of GNOME 49 coming up In September...

IceWM 3.8.2 window manager for X Window System adds a new “switchmenu” icesh action, improves window switching, and brings various bug fixes.

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...

Fastfetch 2.49 improves GPU and ARM SoC detection and starts phasing out legacy config flags ahead of major changes in v2.50.

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.

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 […]

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...

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...

Learn how to set your own custom OS icons for VirtualBox guests to make your virtual machines more visually organized and easier to identify.