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Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo Devices
Calibre 8.8 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with an updated Kobo driver that supports the latest Tolino firmware and other chnages. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 8.8 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Support for Kobo De...
2025-08-08 08:27
Kernel 6.16 Test Week: August 10 – 16
Join us to test the 6.16 kernel for Fedora Linux 43 during August 10 – 16! What is a test week? Test weeks are organised by the Fedora QA team per release cycle and are a great way to get involved in developing the upcoming Fedora Linux release. Inst...
2025-08-08 08:00
PCIe Improvements With Linux 6.17: Intel Panther Lake, Qualcomm, Sophgo SG2044 & More
The PCI changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.17 merge window. There is new PCIe controller support and some other additions worth mentioning with the new PCI feature code...
2025-08-08 06:42
FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding
Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land. Hitting FFmpeg Git today are some Vulkan Video additions...
2025-08-08 06:20
GCC 15.2 Released With More Than 123 Bugs Fixed
Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety of bug fixes back-ported...
2025-08-08 06:08
Item Flow – Part 2: next steps for Masonry
Back in March, we published Item Flow, Part 1: a new unified concept for layout, an article about a new idea for unifying flex-flow and grid-auto-flow into a single set of properties under a new item-flow shorthand.
2025-08-08 01:57
Google ends Steam for Chromebook effort
In 2022, Google launched a major push for gaming Chromebooks, including a version of Steam for ChromeOS. Steam for ChromeOS remained in Google’s nebulous “beta” state ever since, however, and today Google is doing a Google by killing Steam for Ch...
2025-08-08 00:10
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LACT 0.8.1 Linux GPU Control Panel Improves Voltage/Clock Controls For Older AMD GPUs
LACT 0.8.1 is out with a few important changes for this open-source Linux GPU control application that is written in Rust and rendered using GTK...
2025-08-08 00:00
Google rolls out AI coding tool for GitHub repos
Google has introduced Gemini CLI GitHub Actions, a no-cost, autonomous agent for GitHub repos that works asynchronously in the background on routine coding tasks. The product is currently in beta. Announced August 6, Gemini CLI GitHub Actions can be f...
2025-08-07 23:40
Developing your first KDE application
Akseli Lahtinen, a KDE developer who works on various components of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, had never actually made his own KDE application from scratch – until now. He created a to-do application, called KomoDo (available on Flathub), th...
2025-08-07 22:54
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Age verification: what’s the harm?
Welcome, friends, to my grubby little corner of the internet. A corner so strewn with obscenity that the UK government has decided you must prove you’re a grown-up before you can access certain parts of it. The UK’s new Online Safety Act has come ...
2025-08-07 21:31
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MariaDB Community Server 12.0 Released As GA With Greater Oracle Compatibility
MariaDB today announced the general availability "GA" release of the MariaDB Community Server 12.0 release. This first MariaDB 12 release brings many exciting enhancements over MariaDB 11 for this open-source database originally derived from MySQL...
2025-08-07 20:13
IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 Released with Offline AI Code Completion & Java 25
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, adding offline AI-powered code completion for Java and support for Java 25, the next long-term support (LTS) release. There’s also enhanced Spring debugging tools, Maven 4 support, and the usual glut of fe...
2025-08-07 18:52
IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 Released with Offline AI Code Completion
JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 with offline AI code completion, Java 25 support, Spring tools, and Maven 4 enhancements. You're reading IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 Released with Offline AI Code Completion, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
2025-08-07 18:52
New AMD Zen 6 Linux Patches Posted - Confirming Up To 16 Memory Channels
Following the recent Linux kernel patch adding the AMD Zen 6 synthetic feature flag I suspected more AMD Zen 6 kernel patches would begin flowing... Sure enough, two new patches today noting some new model IDs in the Family 1Ah family as well as confir...
2025-08-07 18:49
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released with Linux 6.14 + Mesa 25
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is the third point release to the 'Noble Numbat'. It adds 6 months worth of updates, a new Linux kernel and updated drivers. You're reading Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released with Linux 6.14 + Mesa 25, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
2025-08-07 16:08
Linux 6.17 Standardizes The Keycode For The "Performance Boost" Key
With the input subsystem updates for Linux 6.17 in addition to now mapping ther F13 to F24 keys by default for PS/2 keyboards, the "performance boost" key beginning to be found on some laptops now has a standardized keycode. With standardizing that key...
2025-08-07 14:51
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.14 from Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin). The post Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14 appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not...
2025-08-07 14:04