After being in development for nearly one year , Zstd 1.5.4 has been released with many 'significant performance improvements across multiple scenarios' for this increasingly-used data compression algorithm.

NetworkManager 1.42 network management tool for GNU/Linux distributions is now available for download with new features and improvements.

This week Intel released Embree 4.0 as the newest version of their open-source, high performance ray-tracing library.

An Intel engineer has implemented compute-based transcoding support to the DXT5 texture format as part of S3TC texture compression

Systemd 253 is gearing up for release while out today is the third and possibly final release candidate.

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Longtime Linux users likely have fond memories of the XMMS audio player from two decades ago

Valve released a new Steam Client stable update to further improve the new Big Picture Mode, as well as to address various bugs and issues.

There is already some AVX-512 optimizations for software contained within the FFmpeg multimedia library, but there is room for greater AVX-512 usage especially now with AMD supporting this Advanced Vector Extensions expansion and the latest Intel Xeon CPUs…

EndeavourOS Cassini Neo distribution is now available for download with the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel, an improved installer, and many bug fixes.

The H.266 / Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was finalized back in 2020 and while the hardware acceleration is currently limited to a few SoCs with video decode, in the years ahead there will likely be plenty of content encoded in H.266/VVC

Several years ago the open-source 'Hangover' project started as allowing Windows x86_64 and x86 programs to run on 64-bit ARM Linux by leveraging the upstream Wine software as well as QEMU

Lutris 0.5.13 Beta is out this weekend as the newest test release for this open-source game manager that makes it easier to install and play video games from multiple game stores, emulators, and integration with other services.

KDE Frameworks 5.103 open-source software suite is out now with improvements and bug fixes for various KDE apps, Plasma Wayland, and more.

A ten month old merge request to GNOME's Mutter for adding implicit grabbing to the Clutter code was finally merged last week.

Back in 2018 the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) was hosted in A Coruña, Spain by Igalia developers and for XDC2023 it's again returning.

Article describes and explains how to use checkpointing in Podman to save the state of a running container for later use.

Follow this blueprint for planning, hosting, and managing a successful hackathon.

Code a "guess the number" game in Expect. Then, learn the real power of Expect with a separate script to automate playing the game.

Learn how Red Hat IT designed its strategy to migrate from Ansible Tower to Ansible Automation Platform 2.