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Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 2 Released As Latest Monthly ISOs

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 22:28
It was just at the end of month that Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 1 ISOs were published for the first "Resolute Raccoon" milestone. Out already is now Snapshot 2 with Canonical releasing these images ahead of their engineers having time off for end-of-year holidays...

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 Now Available For This Free Software Office Suite

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 21:18
LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office suite solution...

KDE Gear 25.12 Released For Shipping The Latest KDE Applications

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 19:41
KDE Gear 25.12 is out today as the collection of the latest KDE desktop/mobile applications for running nicely on the Plasma 6 desktop...

Microsoft Is Back To Working On "Hornet" Security For eBPF Programs On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 19:21
Earlier in the year Microsoft proposed the "Hornet" Linux security module to provide signature verification capabilities for eBPF programs to provide for better system security. It's been months since hearing anything more about it and not being merged, but yesterday they "reintroduced" it to the Linux kernel community...

Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 19:00
Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development. VK_EXT_present_timing ended up debuting at the end of November within the Vulkan 1.4.335 spec update to much excitement for providing functionality to obtain information on the presentation engine's display for accurate timing information and to assist in scheduling a present to happen no earlier than a desired time. This is a big win for helping avoid game stuttering and more while now the Mesa support for it is nearly complete and could be merged soon...

DM Changes Merged For Linux 6.19 - Much Better Performance For "Verity" Integrity

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 18:47
Linus Torvalds merged the Device Mapper "DM" changes overnight that include one stand-out change for Linux 6.19...

Intel llm-scaler-vllm Beta 1.2 Brings Support For New AI Models On Arc Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 18:29
Following yesterday's release of a new llm-scaler-omni beta there is now a new beta feature release of llm-scaler-vllm that provides the Intel-optimized version of vLLM within a Docker container that is set and ready to go for AI on modern Arc Graphics hardware. With today's llm-scaler-vllm 1.2 beta release there is support for a variety of additional large language models (LLMs) and other improvements...

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