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GNU/Linux Leftovers
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Graphics Stack
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Linux Magazine ☛ AMD Initiates Graphics Driver Updates for Linux Kernel 6.18
This new AMD update focuses on power management, display handling, and hardware support for Radeon GPUs.
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Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)
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Linuxiac ☛ Budgie 10.9.3 Released with GNOME 49 Alignment
In preparation for version 10.10 and over a year after the 10.9.2 release, the Budgie team has rolled out version 10.9.3, a minor maintenance update that focuses on aligning the desktop with the recent changes introduced in the upcoming GNOME 49.
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GNOME Desktop/GTK
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Georges Basile Stavracas Neto ☛ Georges Basile Stavracas Neto: Marks and counters in Sysprof
Last year the Webkit project started to integrate its tracing routines with Sysprof. Since then, the feedback I’ve received about it is that it was a pretty big improvement in the development of the engine! Yay.
People started using Sysprof to have insights about the internal states of Webkit, gather data on how long different operations took, and more. Eventually we started hitting some limitations in Sysprof, mostly in the UI itself, such as lack of correlational and visualization features.
Earlier this year a rather interesting enhancement in Sysprof was added: it is now possible to filter the callgraph based on marks. What it means in practice is, it’s now possible to get statistically relevant data about what’s being executed during specific operations of the app.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Ruben Schade ☛ #SciArtSeptember: Permutation
It’s the next instalment of #SciArtSeptember, the series of art prompts posted by Kristin that I’m shamelessly using to write blog posts. Today’s word is permutation.
This one I’m going to pull back to what I’ve been doing for work. We host virtual machine templates for a range of different OSs, and their… permutations! Each backdoored Windows Server version does something different, though thinking about that OS gives me a sufficient headache that I’d rather not discuss.
Linux in particular has always been interesting for their wildly different architecture and approaches. I’ve had two clients independently joke that it took them less effort to move from Debian to FreeBSD than it did going from RHEL to Debian, despite the former two being GNU/Linux distributions. Hint hint, you should try FreeBSD :).
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenVINO™ 2025.3.0 now natively available on openSUSE!
We’re excited to announce the new OpenVINO 2025.3.0 release, now available for installation directly from the official openSUSE repository. It expands native support for running generative Hey Hi (AI) and LLM models with acceleration on Intel® CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs!
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Debian Family
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Thorsten Alteholz ☛ Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in August 2025
Debian LTS
This was my hundred-thirty-fourth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.
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