Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called "Dangerous" Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu daily development images...

Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept - Phoronix

The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called 'Dangerous' Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the...

Ubuntu 25.10 Enters Its Feature Freeze Period As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October...

Ubuntu 25.10 Enters Its Feature Freeze Period - Phoronix

As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October.

LibreOffice 26.2 To Better Handle Documents With Restricted Embedded Fonts Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts. This is for dealing with situations where fonts may have restricted licensing rights and where up to now LibreOffice Writer simply hasn't dealt with them correctly...

LibreOffice 26.2 To Better Handle Documents With Restricted Embedded Fonts - Phoronix

Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts

Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVIDIA GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware with Turing and Ampere GPUs should provide a better experience than the older firmware alte…

Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware - Phoronix

A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source ...

FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic speech recognition / transcription capabilities...

FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition - Phoronix

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day

Go 1.25 Released With Experimental GC Yielding 10~40% Overhead Reduction Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language. What I find most exciting with Go 1.25 is the new experimental garbage collector yielding 10~40% reduction in overhead...

Go 1.25 Released With Experimental GC Yielding 10~40% Overhead Reduction - Phoronix

Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language

Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux...

Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported - Phoronix

Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 'Trixie', Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while runnin...

NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux Driver Updates EGL Bits, Adds New MetaMode Attribute Following the NVIDIA 580 Linux beta driver from just one week ago, today NVIDIA issued a new R580 series Linux driver build...

NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux Driver Updates EGL Bits, Adds New MetaMode Attribute - Phoronix

Following the NVIDIA 580 Linux beta driver from just one week ago, today NVIDIA issued a new R580 series Linux driver build.

Intel Adds Another Battlemage BMG-G21 PCI ID To Their Linux Driver Intel has introduced another new PCI device ID to their open-source Linux graphics driver stack for signifying another likely product on the way based on the Battlemage BMG-G21 GPU...

Intel Adds Another Battlemage BMG-G21 PCI ID To Their Linux Driver - Phoronix

Intel has introduced another new PCI device ID to their open-source Linux graphics driver stack for signifying another likely product on the way ba...

Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Increases Wayland Compatibility, UI Enhancements The beta release of Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is now available for testing of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...

Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Increases Wayland Compatibility, UI Enhancements - Phoronix