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Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT
Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation...
2024-10-07 13:57
Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews
Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system...
2024-10-07 12:45
Development start of Leap 16.0
Hello everyone! I’d like to announce the start of development and the public availability of what we currently refer to as Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Since this is a pre-Alpha version, significant changes may occur, and the final product may look very diff...
2024-10-07 12:00
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released, This is What’s New
A new major update to the KDE Plasma desktop has been released, and it’s jam-packed with new features, enhancements, and performance-focused improvements. Serving as the third release in the new 6.x series, KDE Plasma 6.2 builds on the foundations in...
2024-10-07 11:20
Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server
Gentoo Linux will be working on better support for ARM64/AArch64 and 32-bit ARM now that they have received an Ampere Altra Max server to help expedite their ARM build times for binary packages and installation stage builds...
2024-10-07 10:47
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 6th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 6th, 2024, brings news about Firefox 131, Linux Mint 22.1 release date, FFmpeg 7.1, fwupd 2.0, Audacious 4.4.1, qBittorrent 5.0, Ardour 8.8, NetworkManager 1.50, Firefox 132 beta, as well as all the latest distr...
2024-10-07 10:37
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October
While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution...
2024-10-07 08:56
RPM 4.20 Released With Declarative Build System Support, Public Plugin API
RPM 4.20 is out today as the newest feature release to this package manager system that's been in development the past year and featuring a variety of improvements for the likes of RHEL and Fedora based distributions...
2024-10-07 08:47
The Speedy Ptyxis Terminal Emulator Available On Ubuntu 24.10
For those on Debian experimental or planning on upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10 that is releasing this week, the Ptyxis terminal emulator is now available in the package archive if wanting to try out this speedy terminal option...
2024-10-07 06:54
Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages
Yesterday when announcing the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel, Linus Torvalds asked that the kernel maintainers do a better job moving forward with their commit messages...
2024-10-07 06:45
NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now ...
2024-10-07 06:39
Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems
Following work last month for extending the Dell WMI sysman Linux driver to handle Alienware systems for managing the system BIOS within the confines of Linux, another separate improvement is on the way for enhancing Alienware hardware support under Li...
2024-10-07 06:23
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL for September. New lintian maintainer I'm pleased to welcome Louis-Philippe Véronneau as a new Lintian maintainer. He humorously acknowledged his new role, stating, "Apparently I'm a Lintian maintainer ...
2024-10-07 00:00
Ardour 8.8 (Open Source DAW) Drops Fresh Fixes & Features
Ardour is one of the most popular and powerful open-source digital audio workstations (DAW) around, and a major new update was recently made available. Now, I won’t profess to be some kind of music-making maestro, though I did spend a lot my late tee...
2024-10-06 23:57
Linux 6.12-rc2 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes
Building off last Sunday's inaugural release candidate of Linux 6.12, Linus Torvalds tagged the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel a few minutes ago...
2024-10-06 18:52
More Intel Diamond Rapids Enablement Landing For Linux 6.12
In addition to Intel's Linux engineers being busy preparing hardware enablement support for next-gen Panther Lake client processors, they are also busy beginning to plumb Linux driver support for next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support as the suc...
2024-10-06 11:51
Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps
Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser has released Cage v0.2, a Wayland kiosk compositor that runs single, maximized applications...
2024-10-06 10:34
Mesa 24.3 Adds New Build Option To Allow Rusticl Driver Support To Be Enabled By Default
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst continues enhancing Mesa's Rusticl driver that allows for a Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for use by Gallium3D drivers. The newest addition is a build-time option for controlling devices to be enabled by default...
2024-10-06 10:22
Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly
Wasmer 4.4 is out as the newest version to this prominent WebAssembly (WASM) runtime that supports WASIX / WASI / EmScripten to "run software anywhere" by effectively serving as lightweight containers and being able to scale from the edge to the cloud...
2024-10-06 09:04
Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features
HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of enhancements into the mainline Mesa code...
2024-10-06 06:24