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Canonical Decides To Double Down On Their Investment In Java For Ubuntu

Phoronix - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 20:52
Ubuntu maker Canonical has decided to "double down" their investment in OpenJDK Java for Ubuntu Linux...

Gentoo Releases Updated Install Media Based On KDE Plasma 6.3 + Linux 6.12 LTS

Phoronix - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 20:00
The Gentoo Linux project ended the month of June by releasing new install media...

Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell

Phoronix - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 18:44
The Mesa 25.2 release that will likely be out as stable in August should have nice initial support for the newest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, namely used by the GeForce RTX 50 series, with the NVK open-source driver for Vulkan usage...

NVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta

Phoronix - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 18:32
NVIDIA previously warned CUDA users that CUDA 12.x is the last for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs. NVIDIA overnight now officially confirmed that the Maxwell / Pascal / Volta GPU support is going to end in their Linux driver with the upcoming NVIDIA R580 Linux driver series...

Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June

Phoronix - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 18:17
Over the course of last month on Phoronix were 240 original news articles written by your's truly as well as another 24 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. On top of that last month also marked the 21st birthday of Phoronix.com...

digiKam 8.7 Released With AI Auto-Rotation Tool, OpenCV OpenCL + CUDA Support

Phoronix - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 18:06
The digiKam 8.7 professional photo management software has been released for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source solution for digital photography...

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