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KDE Gear 24.08.1 is now available as the first point release to the latest KDE Gear 24.08 software suite with more bug fixes and improvements. The post KDE Gear 24.08.1 Brings More Improvements to Your Favorite KDE Apps appeared first on 9to5Linux - do...

A new Steam Client update is now available for download to improve support for more Linux desktops and the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers. The post New Steam Client Update Improves Compatibility with More Linux Desktops appeared first on 9to5Linux - do...

AMD engineers continue work toward upstreaming their XDNA kernel driver for Linux in enabling the Ryzen AI NPU on open-source. The "v3" patches were posted on Wednesday but given the timing it looks like it will be missing out still on merging for the ...

Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Server upgrades The repository servers were upgraded. They’re now able to serve packages at 10gbps, which is 10 times faster than before. We no longer observe bottlenecks during large updates w...

Report by Omdia and Canonical finds network cloudification a key priority, shows CSPs embracing open source technologies London, UK. 12 September 2024. Today, Omdia and Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, released a new research report which indicates ...

Ojaswin Mujoo with IBM has posted an initial set of "request for comments" patches implementing extsize hints for EXT4, similar to the hints being worked on for the XFS file-system. This is important work in ultimately striving toward handling non-torn...

With the upcoming PostgreSQL 17 database server release there is some initial AVX-512 optimizations that are looking quite nice according to Intel's findings...

The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-le...

Last month Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund announced they would be opening a fellowship program for open-source maintainers. The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has been providing great investments into open-source projects while this fellowship is around inve...

For those continuing to make use of the open-source Redis in-memory, key-value database rather than some of the new open-source forks such as Valkey, the first milestone release of Redis 8.0 Community Edition is now available for testing...

Merged yesterday into the code for Mesa 24.3 is initial support within the PanVK Vulkan driver for Arm Mali v10 graphics hardware. The v10 architecture is for second-gen Valhall GPUs and goes along with the ongoing Linux kernel driver work for the Pant...

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has recently been devoting some time to enhancing their GitLab deployment with new features and also in welcoming the Mono project to their GitLab instance. In case you missed it, Microsoft recently shifted stewar...

While Gentoo Linux recently ended their support for Itanium (IA-64) hardware, this popular source-based Linux distribution continues to support other aging platforms... Today they sent out an announcement highlighting their improved support for MIPS an...

Parallels Desktop 20 has been released for macOS. The virtualisation software introduces a number of buffs for Linux VMs running on macOS. The headline change in Parallels Desktop 20 is support for macOS Sequoia, both as host OS and as a guest — impo...

VirtualBox 7.1 is now available to download for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Those upgrading from VirtualBox 7.0 or earlier will find a sizeable set of changes on offer, among them what Oracle describe as a “modernized look and feel”. Set you...

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9 is now available for download with Qt 6 interface, AppImage bundles, vendored dependencies, and platform crypto. Here's what's new! The post Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9 Released with Qt 6 Port, AppImage Support, and More appeared fi...

Kali Linux 2024.3 ethical hacking distro is now available for download with support for Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module Wi-Fi, new tools, and Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 SoC support. The post Kali Linux 2024.3 Adds 11 New Hacking Tools, Improves Raspberry...

Prompting Client is the latest security effort for snap software, and acts as a companion to the new desktop Security Center app. As you may have read in my article last week, Prompting Client is a security buffer — think doorman — that guards your...

Ubuntu 24.10 will ship with a new security feature called permissions prompting to put users in full control of their Ubuntu machines. The post Ubuntu 24.10 to Introduce User-Controlled Permissions Prompts appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce...

Oracle today released version 7.1 of their VirtualBox virtualization software with an improved GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing support, OCI integration improvements, and other enhancements...