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COSMIC Desktop Alpha 5: New Media Player, User Options + More
A new alpha update to System76’s COSMIC desktop environment has arrived with a clutch of interactive improvements. This is the fifth alpha of the Rust-based DE since August 2024. More alphas will arrive each month until all the features planned to sh...
2025-01-09 23:54
System76 Release COSMIC DE Alpha 5: What’s New?
A new alpha update to System76’s COSMIC desktop environment has arrived with a clutch of interactive improvements. This is the fifth alpha of the Rust-based DE since August 2024. More alphas will arrive each month until all the features planned to sh...
2025-01-09 23:54
New Year Starts with Slowroll Version Bump
The openSUSE Slowroll community has welcomed the January version bump that was completed recently. Slowroll’s snapshots mark the beginning of fresh updates with the initial updates now accessible on mirrors globally. This month’s bump comes a day e...
2025-01-09 18:00
Flatpak 1.16 Linux App Sandboxing and Distribution Framework Officially Released
Flatpak 1.16 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download. This is a major release that brings several new features and improvements. The post Flatpak 1.16 Linux App Sandboxing and Distribution Framework Officia...
2025-01-09 17:55
COSMIC Alpha 5 Desktop Brings COSMIC Media Player As Default, VRR Updates
Building off the COSMIC Alpha 4 release from early December, COSMIC Alpha 5 is now available as the newest stepping stone toward the first stable release of this Rust-based open-source desktop developed by System76 for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
2025-01-09 17:05
AMD Secure TSC Support Might Finally Be Ready For Landing In The Linux Kernel
Going back to January 2023 were patches for enabling Secure TSC support for use by SEV-SNP guests with AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" and newer processors... Two years later and after sixteen rounds of revising the Linux kernel patches, it looks like the AMD Se...
2025-01-09 16:42
Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM Announced for $120
Raspberry Pi has today announced the launch of a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM. A engorged-memory model had been oft-rumoured since the launch of the raspberry Pi 5 in 2024 – and long-desired by fans of this particular single-board computer (SBC). The...
2025-01-09 15:52
Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM Announced for £115/$120
Raspberry Pi has today announced the launch of a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM. A engorged-memory model had been oft-rumoured since the launch of the raspberry Pi 5 in 2024 – and long-desired by fans of this particular single-board computer (SBC). The...
2025-01-09 15:52
KDE Plasma 6.3 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New
KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing with many new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect in the final release! The post KDE Plasma 6.3 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New a...
2025-01-09 15:21
KDE Frameworks 6.10 Adds Support for Converting Between “Rack Units” in KRunner
KDE Frameworks 6.10 open-source software suite is now available with support for convert between "rack units" and other units of length, as well as other improvements. The post KDE Frameworks 6.10 Adds Support for Converting Between “Rack Units” in...
2025-01-09 14:30
Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 Brings More Battlemage Optimizations
The Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 release was made earlier today as the newest update to this open-source Linux and Windows compute stack for Intel graphics hardware for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero implementations...
2025-01-09 13:39
Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund
Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects...
2025-01-09 12:23
KDE Gear 24.12.1 Is Out to Improve Dolphin, Kate, NeoChat, and Other KDE Apps
KDE Gear 24.12.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 24.12.1 Is Out to Improve Dolphin, Kate, NeoChat, and Other KDE ...
2025-01-09 12:21
Tails 6.11 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Critical Security Fixes
Tails 6.11 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with support for detecting partitioning errors and fixes for critical vulnerabilities. The post Tails 6.11 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Critical Security Fixes appe...
2025-01-09 11:21
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements
Ahead of the planned stable release next month, the beta version of Plasma 6.3 is out today for testing this next iteration of the KDE desktop...
2025-01-09 11:05
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Is Now Available at $120 USD
The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB model is now available for sale at $120 USD as a more powerful variant of the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer. The post Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Is Now Available at $120 USD appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce t...
2025-01-09 10:47
Microsoft's Azure Linux Introduces New AMD Graphics Driver Options
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution known as Azure Linux is out with its 3.0.20250102 update today. One of the interesting changes in this release is adding new AMD driver package repositories for allowing Azure Linux users to fetch the latest offi...
2025-01-09 10:28
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 Brings Power/Performance vs. Color Accuracy Preference
KDE developers today released Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 as the newest feature update to this set of non-standard Wayland protocols used by the Plasma desktop...
2025-01-09 08:40
How we used Flask and 12-factor charms to simplify Canonical.com development
Learn how Canonical is using Python Flask and the 12-factor charm framework to simplify the development of Canonical.com and Ubuntu.com
2025-01-09 07:21
Intel PMT Telemetry Now Available For Battlemage Graphics Cards
The Intel PMT open-source software support has now been updated for Platform Monitoring Technology Telemetry with the new Battlemage discrete graphics cards...
2025-01-09 07:00