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EROFS Adding Support For File-Backed Mounts To Benefit Containers & Sandboxes
The EROFS read-only file-system changes have been submitted now for ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. Notable this cycle is EROFS adding support for file-backed mounts...
2024-09-14 06:42
KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3
KDE developers were busy this week in Germany for their annual Akademy developer conference but they still managed to release a Plasma 6.2 Beta as well as some early feature work toward Plasma 6.3...
2024-09-14 06:30
Shotcut 24.09 Video Editor Brings Fixes for Major New Bugs, Improvements
Shotcut 24.09 open-source and cross-platform video editor is now available for download with fixes for major new bugs and improvements. Here's what's changed! The post Shotcut 24.09 Video Editor Brings Fixes for Major New Bugs, Improvements appeared fi...
2024-09-13 22:05
KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators
KDE Frameworks 6.6 software suite is now available with support for de-facto standard, cross-desktop thumbnail generators and other changes. Here's what's new! The post KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators appea...
2024-09-13 21:28
GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform
GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund...
2024-09-13 20:36
Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era
As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the "Family 6" identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecture. Since then Intel has continued releasing new CPUs under "Family 6" with different model IDs...
2024-09-13 16:22
AMD Posts Linux Patches For New Secure AVIC Guest Feature
AMD engineers today posted the first "request for comments" patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors...
2024-09-13 14:46
TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 Linux Laptop Launches with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 Linux-powered laptop is now available with the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics. The post TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 Linux Laptop Launches with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not re...
2024-09-13 14:28
Raspberry Pi Imager Ported to Qt 6, Now Uses AppImages on Linux
You don’t need to own a Raspberry Pi to make use of the Raspberry Pi Imager as this nifty image writer makes flashing ISO, IMG, and similar files to USB drives and SD cards mighty easy. Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9 was released this week and it’...
2024-09-13 13:59
Raspberry Pi Imager Gets Qt 6 Port, Now Offers AppImages on Linux
You don’t need to own a Raspberry Pi to make use of the Raspberry Pi Imager. This nifty image writer makes flashing ISO, IMG, and similar files to USB drives and SD cards mighty easy. A new update, Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9, was released this week ...
2024-09-13 13:59
Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used on Windows as a shader compiler back-end and both for Windows/Linux as part of their OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack can now be compiled for RISC-V 64-bit...
2024-09-13 13:54
Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio
The BeOS-inspired Haiku OS is out today with its fifth beta release as it works toward the long-awaited Haiku R1 stable release...
2024-09-13 13:11
Ubuntu 24.10 Fixes this Pesky File Picker Paper-Cut
Ubuntu 24.10 features a clutch of headline-worth changes, but also plenty of less obvious fixes for “paper cuts” – including a decades-long issue with thumbnails in the GTK file picker. Feeling deja-vu? GNOME 44 (shipped in Ubuntu 23....
2024-09-13 12:47
Ubuntu 24.10 Fixes a Pesky File Picker Paper-Cut
Ubuntu 24.10 features a clutch of headline-worth changes, but also plenty of less obvious fixes for “paper cuts” – including a decades-long issue with thumbnails in the GTK file picker. Feeling deja-vu? GNOME 44 (shipped in Ubuntu 23....
2024-09-13 12:47
GNOME Foundation Accepting Applications For New Executive Director
Following the GNOME Foundation Executive Director leaving after less than one year, the GNOME Foundation has formally begun their search for a new executive director...
2024-09-13 10:00
Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s
While not quite as exciting as the latest ARM64 laptops sporting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 series SoCs, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop using the older Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is now available to boot and install using the generic ARM64 images of the...
2024-09-13 09:15
New Fedora shirts available at HELLOTUX
We’ve upgraded the embroidered Fedora shirt collection with dark blue and white T-shirts and polo shirts. There’s a coupon code below, read onward for more details. Half of the Fedora backpacks were for free After delivering more than 800 embroider...
2024-09-13 08:00
AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling
David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling. The proposed Attack Vector Controls makes ...
2024-09-13 07:16
Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source
Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project rema...
2024-09-13 06:50
LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation
The LoongArch changes for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening. For enhancing KVM virtualization on these Chinese CPUs is enabling Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for accelerating ARM...
2024-09-13 06:39