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GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol

As a very last minute change ahead of tagging GNOME Mutter 47, merged this morning to Mutter is support for the XDG session management Wayland protocol. This protocol is useful for letting clients request support from the compositor for saving the wind...

2024-09-14 10:33

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Niri 0.1.9 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings New IPC Functionality

Niri 0.1.9 is out today as the latest update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that is written in Rust...

2024-09-14 09:00

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Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget

Casilda is a new open-source project by GNOME developer Juan Pablo Ugarte to serve as a Wayland compositor widget. Casilda allows for embedding other processes windows within a GTK4 application...

2024-09-14 07:10

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Printk Changes Submitted For Linux 6.12 Finish NBCON Console Preparations

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window opening on Monday, the printk updates were submitted in advance given the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit also taking place next week in Vienna. Notable with the printk updates is finishing up the NBCON consol...

2024-09-14 06:53

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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....

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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

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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

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