NVIDIA To Make $5B Investment Into Intel - x86 RTX SoCs & More To Come NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs... image
Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7... image
Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being "orphaned" in the Linux kernel, there is another open-source project that has ended at Intel with the developers departing the company. Though at least this project has found a new open-source home under the NumPy umbrel… image
OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM... image
GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10... image
Mesa's Zink Driver Achieves Hits Major Milestone For Workstation Graphics Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team is the one who has been driving the development forward on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver. While traditionally focused on getting OpenGL games running over Zink, recently he has taken to optimizing Zink for workstation graphics... image
AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as a very significant step forward for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for better competing against NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem... image
AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025... image
AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux... image
Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4 Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit... image