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digiKam 9.0 Leading Open-Source Digital Photo Manager Software Released

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 19:05
The KDE/Qt-aligned digiKam software for managing RAW digital photos is out today with the big digiKam 9.0 release...

Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 18:58
Merged back in 2018 for Linux 5.0 was support for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2. Merged this week for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel is fixing battery reporting for those using the Magic Trackpad 2 under Linux...

Linux 7.0 Adds A New Minor Performance Optimization Shown With AMD Zen 2 CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 09:23
The Linux event poll "epoll" code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when I/O is possible has a new optimization merged today for Linux 7.0...

Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 01:46
Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project...

AMD GAIA 0.16 Introduces C++17 Agent Framework For Building AI PC Agents In Pure C++

Phoronix - Sat, 03/07/2026 - 23:07
AMD's GAIA open-source framework for building AI agents that run locally on Ryzen AI hardware via the Radeon iGPUs and/or NPUs is up to version 0.16. With this new GAIA release is support for developing AI agents purely in C++ with no longer needing to depend upon Python...

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