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Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it's been... extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD's own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support. But finally today there is a significant shift with the Ryzen AI NPUs becoming useful on Linux and able to handle LLMs...

PeerTube 8.1 enhances podcast playback, updates image management, and introduces domain-restricted embedding.

With GNOME 50 that is being used by default with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, you may be curious about the out-of-the-box performance especially compared to prior Ubuntu Linux releases -- especially with Mutter 50 having some NVIDIA optimizations. In today's article is a first look at how the NVIDIA Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu 26.04 is looking compared to the current Ubuntu 25.10 release.

Gateworks has introduced the GW16168, an M.2 AI acceleration card designed to add dedicated neural network processing to embedded and industrial systems. The module integrates NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit (DNPU) and is designed, tested, and assembled in the United States for industrial edge AI deployments. The GW16168 uses NXP’s Ara240 DNPU to deliver […]

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. This article provides the steps to rebase to the newly released Fedora Linux 44 Beta, and how to revert if anything unforeseen […]

Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers. One piece of the support puzzle still coming together though that will be especially important for Xeon Diamond Rapids is the KVM virtualization support. New patches there were posted this week...

KeePassXC 2.7.12 open-source password manager adds nested folder support for Bitwarden imports, a TIMEOTP Auto-Type placeholder, and more.

Adriaan de Groot released Calamares 3.4.2 today as a new maintenance update in the latest Calamares 3.4 series of this popular graphical installer for Linux distros with various improvements like support for Plasma Login Manager.

NVIDIA released today the production-ready NVIDIA 580.142 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems to address various bugs and regressions for improved stability and reliability.

The Free Software Foundation is hiring a new engineering and certification manager for leading the Respect Your Freedom "RYF" hardware certification program. The FSF RYF program is about certifying hardware that respects the user's freedom and privacy for control over the device, such as no proprietary firmware blobs needed to be loaded at run-time, no digital rights management / digital restrictions, and complies with their other free software ideals...

The Fedora Project released today the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 44 for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

The MSI PRO B850-P WIFI motherboard is a unique AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard for Linux/open-source enthusiasts that is competitively priced at just $179 USD. It's interesting not because of the doings of MSI but rather 3mdeb with this being the desktop motherboard they are working on porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to for allowing an open-source firmware stack.

A proposed age verification interface for Linux desktops has been closed in the freedesktop XDG specs, following strong community feedback.

In this article, you'll learn how to install .NET 8.0 SDK on Ubuntu 26.04, 25.04, and other versions to build and run your first .NET application.

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it's running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features...

Kdenlive 25.12.3 arrives with workflow improvements, better shortcut handling, UI refinements, and multiple stability fixes for the open source video editor.

With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories...

The latest PhotoPrism update introduces enhanced Ollama configuration options, improved security, and multiple bug fixes related to indexing, folders, and metadata.

FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that debuted as stable last year...

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today, which brings a few interesting new features related to their hardware surveys and Steam user reviews, as well as improvements for Proton games on Linux, and other changes.