Debian's APT 3.1 Released With Why/Why-Not Commands, New Solver Default On Ubuntu Following the release earlier this year of the big APT 3.0 package manager tool release, APT 3.1 was tagged today as another step forward to this key tool on Debian-based Linux distributions...
Microsoft Makes "Edit" Command Line Editor Open-Source, WSL Going Open-Source Too Microsoft kicked off its Build 2025 developer conference today with some open-source announcements... image
Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16 Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. So barring any surprises, this next version of the Linux kernel will feature preliminary open-source mainline kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs... image
FUSE To Enjoy A Performance Improvement With Linux 6.16 Queued up via the FUSE "for-next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is a change to increase the read directory buffer size to in turn enhance the performance... image
Linux 6.16 To Support The Realtek RTL8127A 10GbE Ethernet Controller On the networking front with the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is supporting the new Realtek RTL8127A 10GbE Ethernet Controller... image
ByoWave Proteus Controller Support Coming To Linux The ByoWave Proteus Controller Kit is a modular gaming controller that allows snapping together different combinations of input toggles and to reposition the triggers and buttons depending upon your preferences. Support for the ByoWave Proteus Controllers is already supported by Valve's SteamOS while now the controllers will soon be supported by the mainline Linux kernel... image
Niri 25.05 Brings New Features To This Innovative Wayland Compositor Niri 25.05 is out today as the newest major step forward for this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a devoted following... image
NVIDIA Upstreams Newer GSP Firmware For Open-Source Nouveau Driver NVIDIA has supplied updated GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware derived from their R570 driver series to the upstream linux-firmware.git repository... image
Rust Language Celebrates Ten Years By Releasing Rust 1.87 Rust 1.87 is now available as the newest version of this popular programming language. With the Rust 1.87 release it also marks ten years already of this system programming language focused on memory safety and modern features... image
Arch Linux Installer Adds Labwc & Niri Wayland Compositor Options Archinstall 3.0.5 is now available as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer... image