If you’re looking for a no-fuss way to monitor real-time power consumption on your Ubuntu laptop, a new GNOME Shell extension makes it deliciously easy. “Why would I want to see energy usage?” – anyone asking that question probably doesn’t. This is more for the curious folk, those interested to see the relative power demands of software being run, the tasks performance, hardware settings, devices connected, and so on – think educational rather than essential. Of course, anyone can monitor power consumption on Linux without an extension. Command line tools like upower can do it, as can some system monitors, […]

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Following the AMD ROCm 6.2 release from early August, ROCm 6.2.1 was released on Friday evening as the first point release to that series for this AMD GPU compute stack for Linux systems...

Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) is now available for public beta testing with Linux kernel 6.11, GNOME 4.7, and many other enhancements. Here's what to expect from the final release!

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Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

Edubuntu is a partner project of Ubuntu, a distribution suitable for classroom use. The aim is that an educator with limited technical knowledge and skill will be able to set up a computer lab, or establish an on-line learning environment, in an hour or less, and then administer that environment without having to become a fully-fledged Linux geek.

The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" was released in time for some weekend testing...

A beta of Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ is now available to download – a day later than planned! Developers and non-developers alike can download the beta to try the new features in Ubuntu 24.10, check compatibility, and flag any issue for fixing before the stable release takes flight next month. “The Beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper image build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 24.10 that should be representative [the final release]”, says Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta. This is the only beta release planned, though a release candidate will follow in few […]

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For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications. It's pretty much a given that the Compute Module 5 will come, it's just a matter of when. With recent activity by Canonical engineers working on Ubuntu Linux, it's looking like the CM5 could be here soon...

When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux. But what about in the AArch64 world? When having the AmpereOne server in the lab curiosity got the best of me and I ran benchmarks across seven different Linux distributions on this Supermicro ARM server for seeing what platform had the fastest out-of-the-box Linux performance. The Linux distributions tested on this AmpereOne A192-32X server included Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10 daily, Fedora Server 40, AlmaLinux 9.4, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian Testing, and CentOS Stream 10.

The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable this time around are some new feature additions for the popular Wacom drawing tablet support...

GNOME 46.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements. Here's what's changed since GNOME 46.4.

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Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to change that for Ubuntu 25.04 in the new year...

After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution...

The OpenZFS project has merged DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the ZFS file-system to bypass the ARC for reads and writes...

The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report...

Following the other recent work around Linux enablement for Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, yesterday patches were posted for getting the X1 Elite powered Dell XPS 9345 working with Linux but not all functionality is currently working...

After many years in the making, it finally was merged overnight... The real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support was merged a few hours ago into Linux Git for this year's Linux 6.12 kernel!..

Vivaldi web browser has arrived on the Canonical Snap Store – officially. This closed-source, Chromium-based web browser has been available on Linux since its debut in 2015, providing an official DEB package for Ubuntu users (which adds an APT repo for ongoing updates). And last year it became possible to get Vivaldi on Flathub – though that Flatpak build is only semi-official: maintained and packaged by a Vivaldi engineer, but not a recommended or supported package by Vivaldi itself – not yet, anyway! So to hear Vivaldi is embracing the Snap format is an interesting, albeit not surprising, move. It’s […]

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Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux. It has a Windows-like graphical user interface and many programs similar to those found in Windows. Zorin OS also comes with an application that lets users run many Windows programs. The distribution's ultimate goal is to provide a Linux alternative to Windows and let Windows users enjoy all the features of Linux without complications.

Proton 9.0-3 is now available with support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer, Farlight 84, Flatout 3, KinitoPET, and other Windows games.

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Well this is a hell of a surprise... Microsoft announced today that DirectX will be adopting SPIR-V as the interchange format of the future. Microsoft's DirectX 12 will accept shaders compiled to SPIR-V, the intermediate representation defined by The Khronos Group and commonly associated with Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers...

After several weeks of testing Valve has released Proton 9.0-3 as the newest version of this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for being able to enjoy Windows games on Linux...