GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is releasing as soon as later this week if all goes well. Among the many improvements in this year's open-source compiler update are continued enhancements to the error messages as well as having an experimental HTML output option for messages.

Continuing on the theme of recent GCC releases in enhancing error messages when compiling C/C++ code, GCC 16 brings more error improvements focused on the C++ support. GCC 1

Fedora 44 is officially released for providing the very latest Linux innovations with GNOME 50 being the default desktop of Fedora Workstation 44, an improved KDE experience with Plasma 6.6 complete with the Plasma Log-in Manager, and other up-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. Fedora 44 also has Budgie 10

Following the release of Proton 11.0 Beta 1 from two weeks ago that updated against Wine 11.0, this heart to Valve's Steam Play is now out with a second beta release.

Proton 11.0 Beta 1 enabled many more Windows games to now run gracefully under Linux. Plus it addressed a variety of different game problems, updated numerous components that Proton / Steam Play depend on, and much more. Proton 11.0 Beta 2 out today is on the lighter side.

Following yesterday's polarizing news of Canonical to begin shipping AI features in Ubuntu Linux over the course of the next year, Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical has now provided some clarifications around their AI plans.

A short time ago Seager posted an update to his Ubuntu Discourse announcement around rolling out of AI features in Ubuntu over the next year, beginning with Ubuntu 26.10. He still has yet to elaborate on possible AI-driven features for Ubuntu Linux but at least clarified that it will

The AMDXDNA accelerator driver for Ryzen AI NPUs is preparing a new feature called hardware scheduler time quantum for ensuring fairness between multiple users/contexts wanting to leverage this neural processing unit for AI workloads.

The Intel IVPU accelerator driver for Core Ultra NPUs recently enacted a change to prevent single programs from exhausting all NPU resources . That change was picked up for Linux 7.1 and prevents a single non-root user/program from occupying all contexts and doorbells of the Intel NPU. AMD is also working on preventing single programs from

7-Zip 26.01 was released on Monday and making this release significant are huge pages support on Linux and some users may be interested in the new options around the path generation mode for the output directory when extracting archives.

First and foremost, 7-Zip on Linux now supports making use of 2MB huge pages. In leveraging huge pages, 7-Zip can increase the compression speed by around 10% for 7z / XZ / LZMA / LZMA2 formats. A very nice performance win

WayVNC 0.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this VNC server that works with Wayland compositors leveraging the wlroots library.

With WayVNC 0.10, multiple outputs can now be captured via the program's "--desktop" flag and those multiple display outputs then merged into one large frame-buffer based upon the compositor's layout.

WayVNC also now has support for listening on multiple endpoints, support for setting a custom desktop name that is then displayed on the title bar of the

It's crazy to realize it has been ten years already since Red Hat abandoned their Btrfs plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and dropped it, which was a technology preview feature since RHEL6. In its place Red Hat engineers began developing Stratis for next-gen Linux storage with ZFS/Btrfs-like features but instead building atop XFS, LUKS, Device Mapper, and Clevis. After a while since the last major release, Stratis Storage 3.9 released today.

Stratis 3.8 debuted in March 20

The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) support on newer GPUs.

Vulkan memory allocations support the notion of protected memory and unprotected memory. The protected memory use-case for graphics is most commonly associated with Digital Rights Management (DRM) content or securely dealing with other encrypted content. Vulkan protected memory has been around since Vulkan 1.1 while now RADV is enabling support for the "protectedMemory" option.

This protected memory support