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Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default...

This New Kit Turns a Raspberry Pi Into a High-End Linux Handheld  Hackster.io

Juno Tab 4 LTE Brings Intel N300 Power to a Rare Linux Tablet  Linuxiac

With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.

Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages  Phoronix

Audacity 3.7.8 Audio Editor Improves Linux HiDPI UI  Linuxiac

Audacity 3.7.8 Audio Editor Improves Support for HiDPI Displays on Linux  9to5Linux

FOSS Weekly #26.24: Dank Linux Review, BitWarden Alternative, Mint Tips (And an Important Message)  It's FOSS

It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification...

Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER...

Linux developers are using GitHub Copilot and AI vibe coding to keep 20-year-old AMD Radeon HD 2000 to 6000 GPUs alive  Notebookcheck

Linux Foundation to standardize AI data and asset sharing with OpenSharing project  SDxCentral

PoC Exploit Released for Guest-to-Host Escape Linux Kernel Vulnerability  CyberSecurityNews

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS gets improved Linux support  GamingOnLinux

OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors...

Framework's 13 Pro has been delayed by a month, but you can still pick up the Mainboard next month  PC Gamer

Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs...

Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced...

Linux Lite 8.0 Released With Ubuntu 26.04 Base, GTK4 Helper Apps, and Firefox Replacing Chrome  gHacks

One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY...