Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...

Miracle-WM 0.9 brings WebAssembly plugins, a new Rust API, cursor theme support, and faster performance for this Mir-based Wayland compositor.

PipeWire 1.6.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update in the latest PipeWire 1.6 series of this open-source software for handling audio and video streams under Linux-based operating systems.

Solus Linux says it has no plans to implement age verification and will keep monitoring the growing patchwork of related laws.

TrueNAS 26 Beta released today as the initial test release for this next version of this Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) devices and more...

RealSense has introduced the RealSense ID Pro F500, a facial authentication module designed for access control, kiosks, and identity verification systems. The solution combines depth sensing, vision processing, and local computation to support secure biometric authentication without relying on cloud-based processing. The module integrates an active stereo depth system with a neural network pipeline for […]

GNU nano 9.0 (codename Le bonheur est dans le pré) command-line text editor for Unix-like operating systems is now available for download as a major update introducing new features and various improvements.

Discover a step-by-step guide to installing and configuring Spicetify with Spotify on Debian and Ubuntu with practical examples.

Last month Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB of GDDR6 video memory for this long-awaited Battlemage G31 graphics card. This new top-end Battlemage graphics card with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory offers a lot of potential for LLM/AI and other use cases, especially when running multiple Arc Pro B70s. Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. In this article are some initial Arc Pro B70 single card benchmarks on Linux compared to other Intel Arc Graphics hardware across AI / LLM with OpenVINO and Llama.cpp, OpenCL compute benchmarks, and also some OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks. More benchmarks and the competitive compares will come as that fresh testing wraps up, but so far the Arc Pro B70 is working out rather well atop the fully open-source Linux graphics driver stack.

Prefer to drive Linux from the home row? Rofi and wofi turn a simple key combo into a fast app launcher and window switcher on both X11 and Wayland.

PeaZip 11.0 has been released today as the latest version and a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform archive manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

In this article, you will learn four ways to find all logged-in users on the remote machine or server, including the past one (with practical examples).

The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system provided a status update on all of their interesting development activities during the month of March. In addition to a lot of code improvements, Redox OS also enhanced its documentation as well as added an AI policy to reject any contributions relying on large language models...

GNU Nano 9.0 command-line text editor delivers smoother side scrolling, rebindable Meta arrow keys, improved macro handling, and more.

APT 3.2 expands package history management by introducing undo, redo, and rollback commands to Debian’s package manager.

Sony Electronics has announced availability of the AS-DT1 LiDAR depth sensor, unveiled last year. It is described as one of the smallest LiDAR sensors in its class and is designed for integration into size- and weight-constrained systems such as mobile robots, drones, and inspection platforms. The AS-DT1 measures 29 × 29 × 31 mm and […]

OpenShot 3.5.1 has been released today as the first update in the OpenShot 3.5 series of this powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software that brings new features and improvements.

Anthropic just dropped $1.5 million on the Apache Software Foundation. Is it paying back the open source world — or buying goodwill?

For conversion three different plotting scripts building each one it's own surface into a multi-threaded (multi-process) version, we separate the code logic for each surface into a separate task. This allows CPU to calculate simultaneously the paraboloid, sine wave, and Möbius strip.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.8 has been released today as a new maintenance update to the major Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 series of this cross-platform utility for installing Raspberry Pi OS and other operating systems to a microSD card.