100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big systemThe US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these systems, located at Argonne National Laboratory, will together form the DOE's largest AI supercomputing infrastructure.…
Fedora 43 is released today! If you already using Fedora 42, you can safely upgrade your Fedora 42 system to the Fedora 43 version using the DNF system upgrade plugin.
Fedora Linux 43 lands with Wayland-only GNOME, RPM 6.0, Python 3.14, DNF5-powered installer, and an upgraded GNU Toolchain with GCC 15.2 and glibc 2.42.
The root account, or root user, has the highest privilege over the system, having complete control over it.
I’m excited to announce my very first Fedora Linux release as the new Fedora Project Leader. Fedora Linux 43 is here! 43 releases! Wow that’s a lot. I was thinking about proposing special tetracontakaitrigon stickers to celebrate this release, but I’m not sure anyone would notice they weren’t circles. Thank you and congrats to everyone […]
Fedora has released Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition 43 to the public. The Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is well suited for many needs. It combines the reliable and trusted Fedora Linux base with the KDE Plasma Desktop environment. It provides a selection of KDE applications that are simple by default, but powerful when needed. […]
The freshly released Solseek app gives Solus Linux users a fast, fzf-powered TUI for managing eopkg, Flatpak, and Snap.
Today the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is officially shipping as the company's new RDNA4-based offering designed for AI workloads and priced at $1299+ USD. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 offers 32GB of GDDR6 video memory and features 128 AI accelerators and rated for 96 TFLOPs peak half-precision compute, up to 1531 TOPS INT4 sparse, and has a 300 Watt TDP. Here are the initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 under Linux with ROCm 7.0 and testing both in single and dual R9700 graphics card configurations.
Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helpedThe Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security. …
The Ubuntu Unity community flavor of Ubuntu Linux built around the Unity desktop is in a difficult position and at risk for its survival given the lack of developers involved. A call-out has been made in seeking more community developers to contribute to Ubuntu Unity...
Learn how to open and navigate Linux terminals effortlessly, including keyboard shortcuts and bonus tips for efficient command-line usage, in this comprehensive guide.
OpenRazer 3.11 is out as the newest version of these out-of-tree but open-source and community-maintained drivers for Razer devices on Linux. Plus OpenRazer also provides a user-space daemon for controlling Razer RGB lighting and other features. Paired with the likes of the Polychromatic app, OpenRazer makes for a pleasant Razer device experience for gamers and enthusiasts under Linux...
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Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing lineIf you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary assumes you're fine with it.…
A big focus for the FreeBSD 15.0 development was on supporting reproducible builds as has been a growing trend in the open-source ecosystem in recent years. One month out from the official FreeBSD 15.0 release, the FreeBSD project is today celebrating having crossed the milestone of being able to be built reproducibly and as well now building FreeBSD without requiring root privileges...
nEMU 3.4 arrives a year and a half after the previous release, introducing a VM preview feature, new config options, and improved QEMU integration.
Python’s governing body drops a $1.5 M U.S. grant, saying the anti-DEI clause violates its mission and community spirit.
KDE’s Nate Graham explains why KDE Linux bets on immutability for stability and simplicity, moving away from traditional package systems.
Beyond packing many exciting new features and changes, Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version. Assuming the Linux 6.18 LTS designation, this next kernel version will see lots of use in enterprise environments and thus recently carried out some AMD EPYC 9965 2P "Turin" benchmarks between Linux 6.17 stable and the Linux 6.18 development kernel state...
Ubuntu Unity faces manpower shortages as lead dev Rudra has no time to maintain it, sparking a public call for help.