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Discord Screen Share Audio Now Works on Linux
If you’re an avid user of the Discord Linux app and been annoyed that screen share audio doesn’t work, there’s good news: it now does! The latest version of Discord for Linux at long last includes the option to ‘share system audio’ when setti...
2024-11-30 19:08
Armbian 24.11 Released with Support for OrangePi 5 Max and Radxa ROCK 5B+
Armbian 24.11 distribution for ARM devices is now available for download with support for new devices, as well as various improvements. Here's what's new! The post Armbian 24.11 Released with Support for OrangePi 5 Max and Radxa ROCK 5B+ appeared first...
2024-11-30 16:34
Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging
In what could be a wonderful holiday for the Linux desktop, it looks like the Wayland color management protocol might finally be close to merging after four years in discussion...
2024-11-30 10:10
Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage
As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1....
2024-11-30 07:00
Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected Soon
In addition to the USB updates and big staging flush merged yesterday for the Linux 6.13 kernel merge window, the "char/misc" pull was also honored for that catch-all of various kernel changes. With the char/misc pull there are some notable additions f...
2024-11-30 06:00
Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support
The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hyperviso...
2024-11-30 05:40
KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3
KDE developers have wrapped up a busy November with many fixes and other refinements landing this last week of the month...
2024-11-30 05:22
Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance
Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window... And it includes Clang Auto Feedback Directed Optimization (AutoFDO) support for kernel builds as well as Clang's Prope...
2024-11-29 21:09
Calibre 7.22: Better eReader Support, New Restart Option
Calibre 7.22 is out — and yes, I’m making extra special effort to not mangle the version number this release as I always seem to insert an extra period in the string whenever I cover the the app! Unwieldy looking though it can seem, the open-source...
2024-11-29 16:12
LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released
For those with some extra time over the US holiday weekend, LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha 1 has been published as the newest feature version of this open-source, cross-platform office suite that is a great alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office...
2024-11-29 12:33
AMD BIOS Tuning Guide Impact For Boosting AI/ML Performance On EPYC 9005 Series
Following the release last month of the EPYC 9005 series processors, AMD published a BIOS and Workload Tuning Guide of straight-forward settings recommendations for those running new EPYC Turin servers to optimize the performance of different workloads...
2024-11-29 10:36
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by ...
2024-11-29 10:00
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by ...
2024-11-29 10:00
Upgrading to Leap Micro 6.1 Beta with opensuse-migration-tool
Leap Micro 6.1 Beta was released last Wednesday. Images can be found at get.opensuse.org As this is mostly a rebrand of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1, unless some serious issues are found, users can expect a quick transition to RC and GA next week. W...
2024-11-29 10:00
Improved USB4 Debugging Support With Linux 6.13
Along with the staging changes, Greg Kroah-Hartman this morning also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt changes for the nearly-over Linux 6.13 merge window...
2024-11-29 09:36
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - November 2024
This month, the rolling-release continues to shine as a well-oiled machine. November brings key updates for Mesa, gtk4, php8, postgresql17 and more. Alongside these key updates, important security fixes arrived for mozjs128, postgresql, Firefox, and Op...
2024-11-29 09:00
Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Released for Linux Phones with PulseAudio Security Fixes
Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 is now available to fix two important security issues in the PulseAudio audio server that could affect user's privacy. The post Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Released for Linux Phones with PulseAudio Security Fixes appeared first on 9to5Linux -...
2024-11-29 08:38
Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.12
The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.12. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday, December 01,...
2024-11-29 08:00
Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers
Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees. Most notable with the updates on the staging side are clearing out several drivers seeing no real code activity and no apparent users o...
2024-11-29 06:43
FFmpeg Git Continues Landing A Number Of Vulkan Video Enhancements
A number of Vulkan Video enhancements landed this week in FFmpeg Git thanks to open-source developer Lynne that has been advancing the Vulkan Video encode/decode capabilities in this widely-used multimedia library...
2024-11-29 06:34