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Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 22:20
Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices...
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IBM and Red Hat Launch $5B Open Source Security Project

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 22:20
IBM and Red Hat announce Project Lightwell, a $5 billion effort to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted engineering.
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California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 22:20
While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...
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Sway 1.12 Wayland Compositor Released with HDR10 Support via Vulkan Renderer

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 10:34
Sway 1.12 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source i3-compatible Wayland compositor for Linux-based operating systems that introduces several new features and improvements.
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Ubuntu Gets Workshop for Reproducible Development Environment

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 10:34
Canonical’s Workshop lets developers define Ubuntu dev environments in YAML and reproduce them across machines with a single command.
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Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 10:34
The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining.
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Latest Steam Client Update Improves Steam Controller Support on Linux

Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
Valve released today a new stable Steam Client update that introduces more improvements for the new Steam Controller, especially for Linux users, as well as various other improvements and the usual bug fixes.
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Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series

Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...
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Krita 6.0.2 Released as Qt 6 Build, 5.3.2 Remains Production Choice

Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
Krita 6.0.2 digital painting app arrives with Qt 6 changes, while Krita 5.3.2 remains the recommended build for production work.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel

Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel...
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The Quiet Clause That May Save Linux From Age-Verification Laws

Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
As Colorado and California move age verification to the OS layer, exemptions for open source determine whether Linux desktops stay free of mandatory age-gating.
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NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++

Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware...
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LibreOffice Outlines New Web and Mobile Strategy

Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
The Document Foundation details its plan for LibreOffice on the web and mobile, with WebAssembly, mobile GUI work, and collaboration tests.
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Linux Driver To Expose Voltage Inputs For Raspberry Pi SBCs

Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
The Raspberry Pi hardware monitoring driver "RASPBERRYPI-HWMON" is being extended to allow exposing voltage measurements on these ARM single board computers...
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PeerTube 8.2 Video Platform Adds Channel Ownership Transfers

Wed, 05/27/2026 - 22:20
PeerTube 8.2 introduces channel ownership transfers, live stream catch-up support, Studio editing improvements, and admin updates.
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AlmaLinux Doubles Down With Two Releases on One Day

Wed, 05/27/2026 - 22:20
AlmaLinux rolls out 9.8 and 10.2 side by side, pairing new compiler and language stacks with security fixes and an ALESCo?approved kernel backport that arrives ahead of the RHEL upstream.
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ReactOS Now Running On ARM64 In Experimental Form

Wed, 05/27/2026 - 22:20
ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project working to implement binary compatibility for computer programs and drivers for Microsoft Windows now has experimental support for running on 64-bit ARM...
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Mozilla Firefox 151.0.2 Is Out Now to Improve Split View, Disk Caching, and More

Wed, 05/27/2026 - 22:20
Mozilla released Firefox 151.0.2 today as the second minor maintenance update to the latest Firefox 151 web browser to address various bugs and improve some of the browser’s features for a better experience.
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AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience

Wed, 05/27/2026 - 22:20
The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2...
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COSMIC Desktop 1.0.14 Adds External Monitor Brightness Control

Wed, 05/27/2026 - 22:20
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.14 brings DDC/CI brightness support, text previews in COSMIC Files, VPN fixes, and better X11 game handling.
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