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New Fedora shirts available at HELLOTUX
We’ve upgraded the embroidered Fedora shirt collection with dark blue and white T-shirts and polo shirts. There’s a coupon code below, read onward for more details. Half of the Fedora backpacks were for free After delivering more than 800 embroider...
2024-09-13 08:00
AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling
David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling. The proposed Attack Vector Controls makes ...
2024-09-13 07:16
Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source
Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project rema...
2024-09-13 06:50
LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation
The LoongArch changes for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening. For enhancing KVM virtualization on these Chinese CPUs is enabling Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for accelerating ARM...
2024-09-13 06:39
Chrome Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging
The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser merged two notable features yesterday for Linux users...
2024-09-13 06:29
Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...
2024-09-13 06:10
Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Released with Linux Kernel 6.8
The fifth and final point release to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now available to download. This update was due to be released a couple of weeks ago but was delayed by a delay in getting Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS out the door – something had to give, so the rel...
2024-09-12 19:41
Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) Is Now Available Powered by Linux Kernel 6.8
Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS is now avaialble for download as the fifth and last point release to the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS operating system series, powered by Linux kernel 6.8 from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The post Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) Is Now Available Powe...
2024-09-12 18:49
Tiling Shell Adds Option to Show Border Around Focused Window
All keybindings accessible from one place You're reading Tiling Shell Adds Option to Show Border Around Focused Window, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
2024-09-12 18:36
Ardour 8.7 DAW Released with Track Dragging, Combined Rulers, MIDI Scene Markers
Ardour 8.7 open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) is now available for download with track dragging, combined rulers, MIDI Scene markers, parallel disk I/O, and more. The post Ardour 8.7 DAW Released with Track Dragging, Combined Rulers, MIDI Scen...
2024-09-12 18:04
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs
As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts...
2024-09-12 16:00
AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware
AMD today committed their GC 11.5.2 firmware to the upstream linux-firmware.git for the necessary firmware binary blobs needed for hardware initialization by their open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver with this newer RDNA3.5 variant...
2024-09-12 14:36
Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI
With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring...
2024-09-12 14:15
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities
Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor...
2024-09-12 13:42
KDE Plasma 6.2 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New
KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment is now availabe for public beta testing with many new features and improvements. Here's what to expect in the final release! The post KDE Plasma 6.2 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s ...
2024-09-12 13:34
LibreOffice 24.8.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 89 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 24.8.1 is now available for download as the first point release to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 office suite with 89 bug fixes. The post LibreOffice 24.8.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 89 Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to5Li...
2024-09-12 12:43
Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme
The Cinnamon desktop environment looks pretty nice on Linux Mint, but if you install it on other distributions it doesn’t look as good — but that’s about to change. In his latest monthly mail-shot, distro lead Clement Lefebvre says the &#...
2024-09-12 12:35
KDE Gear 24.08.1 Brings More Improvements to Your Favorite KDE Apps
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...
2024-09-12 11:36
New Steam Client Update Improves Compatibility with More Linux Desktops
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...
2024-09-12 11:00
AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming
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 ...
2024-09-12 11:00