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The post Top 5 Diagram Tools for Linux Users in 2025 (Free & Open-Source) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Since diagrams such as networks, organizational structures, system architectures, workflows, etc., have become an indispensable part of both technical and

The post Top 5 Diagram Tools for Linux Users in 2025 (Free & Open-Source) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run AI large language models (LLMs) across different operating systems, hardware, and models is about to enjoy a nice speed boost...

Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system?  TechRadar

It looks like the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library widely used by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions isn't done enhancing its support for running on the X.Org/X11 Server. Similarly, Valve is still committing resources to enhancing the support...

SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit  Phoronix

KDE's window manager learned from Microsoft... before Windows did  xda-developers.com

Due to a "significant portion" of Red Hat's internal QA team responsible for Fedora QA leaving the company or switching to other teams at Red Hat, there are some Fedora ARM release changes coming to deal with the reduced abilities of their quality assurance team...

The Linux Foundation in the Age of AI  The New Stack

AMD "sbtsi_temp" Driver Being Updated For Linux 6.18 To Handle Freezing CPU Temperatures  Phoronix

Two years ago the AMD Linux CPU temperature driver was updated to handle negative temperature reporting. That's for some users with exotic cooling systems and then also use within some industrial applications where the systems may be subject to sub-zero temperatures. The AMD sbtsi_temp driver is also now being similarly updated for handling freezing CPU temperatures...

Linux Foundation Brings Solo.io’s Gateway Into The Agentic AI Fold  The Next Platform

Linux Foundation Brings Solo.io’s Gateway Into The Agentic AI Fold  The Next Platform

NVIDIA just released the 580.82.07 stable Linux driver as their newest R580 driver series update...

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40  Phoronix

AMD Advances Open-Source Graphics with Linux 6.18 AMDGPU Updates  WebProNews

NVIDIA 580.82.07 driver released for Linux, the new Recommended Driver  GamingOnLinux

Arch Linux Archinstall 3.0.10: LVM Support Reaches Full Maturity  WebProNews

SentinelOne Uncovers Mystrodx: Chinese Backdoor Malware Targets Windows, Linux  WebProNews

Kazeta: New Linux OS Transforms PCs into Retro Game Consoles  TechPowerUp

With LLVM 21.1 having been released last week as the newest half-year feature update to this open-source compiler stack, I have begun benchmarking Clang 21 on a variety of systems for getting a feel for the performance over Clang 20. Eventually it will be extended as well to looking at the Clang 21 performance against GCC and vendor compilers. For some initial Clang 21 benchmarking, here is a look at how the Clang 21 C/C++ compiler is performing on 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Zen 5 processors compared to the prior release.