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Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking

…LVFS/Fwupd driving firmware updating under Linux, AMD developing openSIL and coming back to Coreboot support, and so many other great achievements these days. The open-source driver scene has been fascinating…

Jun 5, 2026

Intel Looking To Move Their Low-Power Mode Daemon Into The Linux Kernel Source Tree

…On newer systems hardware hints guide the decision making while on older ones software calculated system utilization can be used. Depending on the workload LPMD manages active CPUs through cgroups, and if…

May 12, 2026

Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience

…Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal" KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026 KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11…

Jun 8, 2026

RVCC Proposed As An LLVM Incubator For High Performance RISC-V Optimizations

…Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday FreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim…

Mar 30, 2026

OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support

…by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 6 June 2026 at 08:06 AM EDT. Add A Comment OpenCV 5.0 released today as a major update to this widely-used, open…

Jun 6, 2026

SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam

…the Steam controller and no native OS drivers currently for use outside of Steam. As a big win today, the widely-used SDL3 gaming software/hardware abstraction library has added support for…

May 15, 2026

Fedora 44 Released For Living On The Leading-Edge Of Linux Innovations

…to-date software packages. Fedora 44 ships live media improvements, enhanced AArch64 EFI system support for Windows on ARM laptops, the latest GCC 16 compiler, and many other updates like LLVM 22…

Apr 28, 2026

KMSCON Continues Improving For VT Terminal Emulator In User-Space

…Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday FreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim For The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support DXVK-NVAPI…

Apr 22, 2026

7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression

…7-Zip 26.01 downloads and more details on this update via GitHub . OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age…

Apr 28, 2026

FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue