NVIDIA Preparing For Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support With Open-Source Nova Driver
NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the open-source and upstream Nova driver for the Linux kernel. This modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA driver is still taking shape as an alternative to NVIDIA’s official downstream open-source driver and the aging and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver. Out on the horizon for Nova is Hopper and Blackwell GPU support… ⌘ Read more
next-20251106: linux-next
Version:next-20251106 (linux-next)Released:2025-11-06 ⌘ Read more
FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64
FEX 2511 is out today for this open-source emulator akin to Apple’s Rosetta that allows running x86/x86+64 applications on ARM64. But in the case of FEX, for ARM64 Linux devices and akin to other open-source projects like Box64… ⌘ Read more
More Intel Crescent Island Enablement Prepped For Linux 6.19
Following Intel’s disclosure less than one month ago of Crescent Island as a upcoming Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM focused on enterprise-level AI inferencing, Intel’s open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have been quick to begin plumbing the Xe kernel graphics driver for this next-generation graphics card… ⌘ Read more
bluetui and restterm: two beautiful TUI applications
There’s something incredibly enticing and retrofuturistic about a well-designed TUI, or text-based user interface. There’s an endless list number of these, but two crossed my path these past few days, and I found them particularly appealing. First, we’ve got bluetui, an application for managing Bluetooth connections on Linux systems with bluez installed. The second is resterm. Resterm is a terminal-first client for working with … ⌘ Read more
Akamai Builds Cloud Native Resilience: Cloud Credits to Power CNCF Projects
Akamai, a CNCF Gold member since 2023 and a committed supporter of open source infrastructure, is generously donating $1,000,000 in annual cloud credits. The donation will support both the Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation…. ⌘ Read more
Linux Patches Updated For Snapdragon X Elite Powered TUXEDO Elite 14 Gen1 Laptop
In mid-2024, Bavarian PC vendor TUXEDO Computers began teasing a Snapdragon X Elite powered Linux laptop with hopes of having it available by Christmas 2024. As we approach Christmas 2025, there still are no immediate signs of this new ARM-based TUXEDO laptop soon shipping but there are signs of life still with new Linux kernel patches posted for enabling this Snapdragon X Elite laptop… ⌘ Read more
Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features
Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for firmware updating systems and peripherals under Linux… ⌘ Read more
Linux 6.19 To Support Additional Arm Mali & Vivante Graphics Hardware
Sent out today to DRM-Next was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next patches for enhancing the various smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers within the kernel. Included with this week’s update is supporting some additional Mali and Vivante hardware as well as continuing to enhance the in-kernel accelerator “accel” drivers… ⌘ Read more
next-20251105: linux-next
Version:next-20251105 (linux-next)Released:2025-11-05 ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net Nothing, yet. It was sent in written form. There’s probably little point in fighting this, they have made up their minds already (and AI is being rolled up en masse in other departments), but on the other hand, there are – truthfully – very few areas where AI could actually be useful to me.
There are going to be many discussions about this …
This is completely against the “spirit” of this company, btw. We used to say: “It’s the goal that matters. Use whatever tools you think are appropriate.” That’s why I’m allowed to use Linux on my laptop. Maybe they will back down eventually when they realize that trying to push this on people is pointless. Maybe not.
Linux 6.19 Will Finally Support Intel’s Adaptive Sharpness Filter “CASF” With Lunar Lake
Going all the way back to early 2024, Intel Linux engineers have been working on supporting an Adaptive Sharpening Filter new to Lunar Lake. While Lunar Lake later launched in September 2024, the Linux patches for this feature remained under review and discussion. Besides the Intel driver implementation itself for Lunar Lake and newer, it also ushers in a new DRM sharpness property to help standardize such functionality … ⌘ Read more
next-20251104: linux-next
Version:next-20251104 (linux-next)Released:2025-11-04 ⌘ Read more
next-20251103: linux-next
Version:next-20251103 (linux-next)Released:2025-11-03 ⌘ Read more
6.18-rc4: mainline
Version:6.18-rc4 (mainline)Released:2025-11-02Source:linux-6.18-rc4.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
Article URL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792503
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V7 pwd, converted to modern POSIX systems
This is a conversion of the original V7 pwd program for use on POSIX systems (tested primarily on Linux). This is mostly of historical interest — modern systems have a library routine or system call for getting the current directory, and don’t need this. I’ve attempted to make the minimum set of logic/functionality changes needed to make the program work, preserving the core of the original logic. I’ve made slightly more aesthetic changes, to make r … ⌘ Read more
6.12.57: longterm
Version:6.12.57 (longterm)Released:2025-11-02Source:linux-6.12.57.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.12.57.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.57 ⌘ Read more
6.6.116: longterm
Version:6.6.116 (longterm)Released:2025-11-02Source:linux-6.6.116.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.6.116.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.116 ⌘ Read more
SUSE Bets The Farm on AI-Powered Linux Administration
SUSE, in a race with Red Hat to add Al features nobody wants, has added “Al-powered administration” to Linux servers. ⌘ Read more
next-20251031: linux-next
Version:next-20251031 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-31 ⌘ Read more
next-20251030: linux-next
Version:next-20251030 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-30 ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Uh, that actually looks not that terrible. Somehow, I remember Swing GUIs being way uglier.
As for Visual Basic, I only had to use VBA once in my life. That was in the beginning of my career when I inherited a project from a leaving coworker. Fuck me, was that awful. Just alone the damn compiler error dialog box popping up in my face all the time while editing and the compiler already trying to parse the unfinished and hence of course uncompilable code. Boy, that left a lasting impression on me. I ported everything to Java very quickly. Luckily, the code base wasn’t all that large at that point in time. I had to add a bunch of new features after that, so I was very glad that I convinced my workmate/project manager to do that first. We didn’t even need a GUI, the button in Excel was transformed to a command line program that just generated the large file.
But I cannot comment on the VB GUI designer, I never used that. Your screenshot looks very similar to the Delphi one, though. Only towards the end of my Delphi days I found out about the possibility to make the widgets snap to window edges and corners (I don’t remember how that was called), so that resizing the windows was actually possible without messing up their entire contents.
Switching to Linux, Delphi wasn’t an option anymore. For some reason I couldn’t use Kylix. Maybe it was already dead by the time I changed OSes. Or I couldn’t get it to run. I just don’t remember. I just recall that the unavailability of Delphi was the reason it took me a while to actually settle on Linux. I then fully switched to Java. The GridBagLayout was my absolutely favorite Swing layout manager. I reckon I used it 98% of the time, because it was so powerful and made the windows resize properly, just as I had learned to do in Delphi shortly before.
Up until discovering Swing, I used Java’s AWT for a short amount of time. That was very limited I think and I hit the limits fairly quickly. Later at uni, we had one project making use of SWT. Didn’t convince me either. I could be wrong, but I think there was also a SWT GUI designer plugin for Eclipse. If there really was, that one wasn’t in the same street as Delphi’s (there must be a reason I forgot about it ;-)).
And maybe I should go back to using GUI designers. Haven’t used those since the Visual Basic days. 🤔 It wasn’t pretty, but you got results very quickly and efficiently.
(When I switched to Linux, I quickly got stuck with GTK and that only had Glade, which wasn’t super great at the time, so I didn’t start using it … and then I never questioned that decision …)
5.4.301: longterm
Version:5.4.301 (longterm)Released:2025-10-29Source:linux-5.4.301.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.4.301.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.4.301 ⌘ Read more
next-20251029: linux-next
Version:next-20251029 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-29 ⌘ Read more
There are no really good GUI toolkits for Linux, are there?
They’re either slow (like GTK4, Qt6), don’t support Wayland (like Tk), and/or unmaintained (like GTK2 and many others).
next-20251028: linux-next
Version:next-20251028 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-28 ⌘ Read more
The Linux boot process: from power button to kernel
You press the power button. A second later a wall of text scrolls by, or a logo fades in, and eventually Linux appears. What happens in between is not magic. It is a careful handshake between tiny programs and a very literal CPU. This part follows that handshake until the very first line of C code inside the Linux kernel runs. ↫ 0xkato’s blog Exactly what it says on the tin. ⌘ Read more
next-20251027: linux-next
Version:next-20251027 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-27 ⌘ Read more
6.18-rc3: mainline
Version:6.18-rc3 (mainline)Released:2025-10-26Source:linux-6.18-rc3.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
KDE Linux deep dive: package management is amazing, which is why we don’t include it
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Tag proposal: conflicts
Given that we’ve recently been flooded with posts about conflicts in relation to Ruby Central, DHH, Omarchy, Rust in Linux, and now Freedesktop, can we have a tag for this kind of thing? I accept that it’s important and on topic but I’d like to be able to take a break. ⌘ Read more
Fedora: The First Vibe Coded Linux Distro
What does an Al developed Linux Distribution look like? ⌘ Read more
next-20251024: linux-next
Version:next-20251024 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-24 ⌘ Read more