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KaOS Linux 2025.01 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.2
KaOS Linux 2025.01 independent distribution is now available for download with the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. Here's what's new! The post KaOS Linux 2025.01 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.2 appea...
2025-01-28 21:49
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Ananthu C V (weepingclown) Andrea Pappacoda (tachi) Athos Coimbra Ribeiro (athos) Gioele Barabucci (gioele) Jongmin Kim (jmkim) Shengqi Chen (harry) Frans Spiesschae...
2025-01-28 20:00
Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now"
Greg Kroah-Hartman today sent out the pull request of all the driver core updates for Linux 6.14, which ends up being a big deal for those interested in the prospects of Rust drivers for the Linux kernel...
2025-01-28 19:26
Pinta 3.0 Beta Released with New GTK4/Libadwaita UI
A new beta release of open source graphics editing app Pinta is available for testing. Pinta 3.0 (beta) gives fans of this cross-platform raster image editor, which is directly inspired by the iconic Paint.NET Windows app, an early opportunity to try o...
2025-01-28 18:52
System76’s Meerkat Mini Linux PC Is Back with Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Faster RAM
System76’s Meerkat mini Linux PC is now available to order with Intel Core Ultra processors, up to 62% faster RAM, and other updates. The post System76’s Meerkat Mini Linux PC Is Back with Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Faster RAM appeared first on 9to5...
2025-01-28 16:12
AMD ROCm 6.3.2 Supports Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0, HIP Improvements & Better Docs
Following last month's release of ROCm 6.3.1, ROCm 6.3.2 was just tagged today from its various open-source repositories and binaries beginning to come down the pipeline. ROCm 6.3.2 is another point release but brings a decent set of refinements for th...
2025-01-28 16:05
Navigating Global Regulations and Open Source: US OFAC Sanctions
Open source is a fundamental part of software supply chains and production systems. As such, it has reached a stage of maturity that requires new ways to deal with a complex world. The Linux Foundation has always pushed to promote and protect open col...
2025-01-28 14:10
Apple CPUs Affected By New SLAP & FLOP Side-Channel Attacks
Apple is the latest CPU vendor being affected by side-channel attacks. All Mac laptops since 2022, all Mac desktops since 2023, and all iPhones / iPad Pro / iPad Air / iPad Mini models since 2021 are affected by these new SLAP and FLOP attacks...
2025-01-28 14:00
System76's New Linux Mini PC Pairs Intel Meteor Lake + Dual 2.5G Ethernet + Coreboot
System76 this morning announced the 2025 version of their Meerkat mini Linux PC. This new mini PC designed for Linux pairs an Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoC with dual 2.5G Ethernet and booting using Coreboot for a intriguing combination whether it'...
2025-01-28 11:06
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Running Well For Larger Workloads, More Multi-Tasking
Earlier this month the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB was announced for finally pushing the Raspberry Pi single board computers beyond an 8GB limit for RAM. This opens up the Raspberry Pi 5 to new use-cases, more multi-tasking, and other applications where 8GB of...
2025-01-28 10:46
Thunderbolt 3 AltMode Driver & Other USB Improvements For Linux 6.14
In addition to sending out the char/misc pull request that completed work on the NTSYNC driver, Greg Kroah-Hartman yesterday also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt pull request for Linux 6.14. The USB/Thunderbolt updates include new hardware support, Chrome...
2025-01-28 10:13
WavPack 5.8 Lossless Audio Compression Tools Now Enable Multi-Threading By Default
The open-source WavPack lossless audio compression format is out with a new release today for this BSD-licensed software around this audio code container...
2025-01-28 08:50
LLVM 20 Promotes SPIR-V To Official Backend, Enabled By Default
Following a call by Intel developers last month for making the SPIR-V back-end an official target within LLVM as a promotion to its existing "experimental" backend status, the change has now been made ahead of the upcoming LLVM 20 release...
2025-01-28 06:47
F2FS Improvements Merged For Linux 6.14
Last week saw the new Bcachefs features and Btrfs changes land along with XFS real-time improvements for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel while overnight the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes were merged for that other exciting and actively...
2025-01-28 06:31
Z3fold Allocator Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel
The Z3fold allocator for compressed pages was quietly deprecated several months ago with users encouraged to use zsmalloc instead. With no one vocally objecting, the Z3fold allocator code is now being positioned for removal from the Linux kernel source...
2025-01-28 06:15
Hangover 10.0 Released For Running Windows Games/Apps On ARM64 Linux
Building off last week's release of Wine 10.0, Hangover 10.0 is now available as this adaptation for running Windows games and applications on ARM64 Linux and other non-x86_64 CPU architectures...
2025-01-28 06:05
New Pebble Smartwatch Planned After Google Open Sources the OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news if you did: Google today open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it used (minus proprietary bits) having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in 202...
2025-01-27 23:46
Pebble Smartwatch Returns After Google Open Sources OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news: Google has open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it ran on (minus some vital proprietary bits like the Bluetooth stack), having acquired Pebble’s assets...
2025-01-27 23:46
New Pebble Smartwatch Planned After Google Open Source OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news if you did: Google today open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it used (minus proprietary bits) having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in 202...
2025-01-27 23:46
Mozilla Thunderbird 134 Adds New Notification System for Real-Time Desktop Alerts
Mozilla Thunderbird 134 open-source and free email and calendar client is now available for download with new features and bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Thunderbird 134 Adds New Notification System for Real-Time Desktop Alerts appeared...
2025-01-27 21:47