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Contribute to GNOME Software with DNF5 Test Day
The DNF5 team is working on ironing out bugs around matching the existing functionality of GNOME Software with PackageKit. The DNF and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday,February 10, 2025 to Monday, February 17, 2025. The wiki page in this...
2025-02-08 18:36
How to Disable ‘App is Ready’ Notifications in Ubuntu
Finding yourself annoyed at those ‘window is ready’ notifications which pop-up when you open some apps in GNOME Shell on Ubuntu? If so, you can disable them by installing a GNOME Shell extension. Now, notifications are helpful—heck, vital when th...
2025-02-08 12:43
SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length
For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files...
2025-02-08 12:33
Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of...
2025-02-08 11:02
Monthly News – January 2025
Hi everyone, We received donations from 852 people in December, for an all-time monthly record of $31,720! Every time this number goes up I think of it the same way. I imagine that many people in one big room, all there just for us. Imagine it for a mo...
2025-02-08 10:29
GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme
Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it's not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from ...
2025-02-08 07:00
FEX 2502 Delivers Fix For Steam, Multi-Block Improvements For Better Performance
FEX 2502 is out today as the newest monthly feature release to this user-space emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux including the likes of Wine/Proton and Steam for being able to enjoy modern games on AArch64 Linux systems...
2025-02-08 06:40
KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week
The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...
2025-02-08 06:16
FreeBSD 13.5 Beta Begins Preparing For The Last Of The FreeBSD 13 Series
The FreeBSD 13.5 release dance has begun for closing out the FreeBSD 13 series...
2025-02-08 06:06
Wine 10.1 Released With Many Changes: Fixes For Battle.net, Continued Bluetooth Driver
Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 as the newest annual stable release of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms, Wine 10.1 is out today. Wine 10.1 kicks off the bi-weekly development release cycle trek that w...
2025-02-07 18:57
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS standard support is coming to an end – options for AWS Users
As our recent blog post mentioned, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is reaching the end of its standard support period. This means the free version will no longer receive security updates. For AWS users, you have two options: upgrade to a newer LTS versi...
2025-02-07 18:39
GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg
While the GNOME project has long been closely tied to the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME's LocalSearch has decided to abandon its GStreamer use in favor of using FFmpeg/libav directly...
2025-02-07 16:43
IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking
It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring...
2025-02-07 13:57
Calibre 7.25 Adds Support for Importing KFX Files from 2024 Kindle Devices via MTP
Calibre 7.25 open-source ebook management software is now available for download with support for importing KFX files from 2024 Kindle devices that use the MTP protocol. The post Calibre 7.25 Adds Support for Importing KFX Files from 2024 Kindle Device...
2025-02-07 13:31
Security in depth with Ubuntu: Mapping security primitives to attacker capabilities
Cybersecurity is not about perfection. In fact, it’s more like a game of chess: predicting your opponent’s moves and making the game unwinnable for your opponent. Like chess players, attackers are always looking for an opening, probing for weakness...
2025-02-07 13:24
Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer
Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in th...
2025-02-07 11:28
GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5
With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looki...
2025-02-07 10:13
Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer
Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel developm...
2025-02-07 08:32
Introduction to Pipewire
Pipewire is a multimedia server and framework available as the default sound server in the latest Fedora versions. It is, by design, for low-latency audio and video routing and processing. It is capable of multiplexing multimedia streams to multiple cl...
2025-02-07 08:00
Serpent OS Working Toward Second Alpha, More Immutable OS Features
Despite Serpent OS development said to be slowing down to a lack of funding, they are hoping for the best and aiming to push forward with this original, from-scratch Linux distribution...
2025-02-07 06:42