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Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 23:48
The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...

Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 21:49
For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version...

Open-Source & Rust-Written Burn MATMUL Kernels Can Compete With NVIDIA's CUDA/cuBLAS

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 18:40
The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performance. Plus Burn isn't limited to just NVIDIA GPUs but can work on most hardware/drivers, including a Vulkan back-end...

Wayland Color Management For HDR Under Review For Chrome/Chromium

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 18:21
The latest software with pending Wayland color management support for enabling HDR display support is the open-source Google Chromium code for the Chrome web browser...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 17:57
KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows...

Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware

Phoronix - Sat, 07/19/2025 - 12:00
While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository. These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being briefly pedaled through AUR...

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