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GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fixes
GNOME 47.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, improvements, and updated translations. The post GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fix...
2025-02-16 12:00
Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit
For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. An independent user/developer has taken it into his own hands and has managed to get Firefox using the GTK4 toolkit up...
2025-02-16 10:00
GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More
The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March...
2025-02-16 07:07
Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet Support For Linux 6.15
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will be adding support for Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet...
2025-02-16 06:45
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 Released With "mkfs.btrfs --compress" Support
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 was released this weekend as the newest routine update to the user-space utilities for the Btrfs file-system...
2025-02-16 06:38
134k Lines Of Code Posted As Latest Effort For COBOL Support Within GCC
While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. T...
2025-02-16 06:19
FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106
Following last week's FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 1 release to kick off this next FreeBSD 13 point release that will also end the series, FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 2 is out this weekend for testing...
2025-02-15 20:30
openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Installations
openSUSE Linux announced earlier this week that they are adopting SELinux as the default mandatory access control (MAC) system for new openSUSE Tumbleweed installations. Until … The post openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Insta...
2025-02-15 19:39
Contribute at the Fedora Test Day for WSL
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) folks are working on the final integration of Fedora images for users in WSL. As a result, we have organized test day on Monday,February 17, 2025 . The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images yo...
2025-02-15 18:49
Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Expands Window Suggestions
A new version of Tiling Shell, the flexible window snapping assistant for GNOME Shell, is available. Tiling Shell v16.2 now surfaces nifty ‘Window Suggestions’, a feature introduced in last month’s v16.0 release, when using edge tiling. Edge Tili...
2025-02-15 15:46
NTSYNC Driver Fix Being Worked On For Proper User Permissions
One of the great new features of Linux 6.14 is the NTSYNC driver being completed for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives so that software like Wine and Proton (Steam Play) can provide for better performance when running...
2025-02-15 11:05
Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rus...
2025-02-15 06:40
KDE Developers Addressing Early Bugs From Plasma 6.3
KDE Plasma 6.3 released this week as the newest step forward for the KDE desktop. While it was smooth on the whole, there were some early bugs that KDE developers were dealing with this week. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly devel...
2025-02-15 06:27
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Rebranding As AerynOS
The nearly three year old Serpent OS Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus fame is going to re-brand as AerynOS...
2025-02-15 00:00
Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support
Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language...
2025-02-14 20:24
KDE Frameworks 6.11 Adds Search Providers for Nix Packages, Docker Hub, and More
KDE Frameworks 6.11 open-source software suite is now available with new search providers for KRunner, keyboard navigation improvements, as well as other changes. The post KDE Frameworks 6.11 Adds Search Providers for Nix Packages, Docker Hub, and More...
2025-02-14 15:00
Dynamic Triple Buffering Merged For GNOME 48
As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!..
2025-02-14 13:35
Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support for HPE Gen10 and Gen10+ Devices Using Redfish
Fwupd 2.0.6 open-source Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with support for HPE Gen10/Gen10+ devices using Redfish, new features, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new! The post Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support for HPE Gen10 and Gen10+...
2025-02-14 13:27
Calibre 7.26 Open-Source Ebook Manager Is Out with New Features and Bug Fixes
Calibre 7.26 open-source ebook management software is now available for download with various new features and several bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 7.26 Open-Source Ebook Manager Is Out with New Features and Bug Fixes appeared first o...
2025-02-14 12:40
Linux 6.15 To Ensure PlayStation 5 Controllers Use The Correct Driver
A change queued up by an Amazon engineer ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will ensure that PlayStation 5 controllers on Linux load with the correctly desired driver...
2025-02-14 10:49