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Debian 12.8 “Bookworm” Released with 68 Bug Fixes and 50 Security Updates
Debian 12.8 is now available for download with 68 bug fixes and 50 security updates for the Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series. The post Debian 12.8 “Bookworm” Released with 68 Bug Fixes and 50 Security Updates appeared firs...
2024-11-09 17:04
Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates
Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...
2024-11-09 16:53
Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows
Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...
2024-11-09 10:19
NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features
Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...
2024-11-09 09:32
Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs
Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...
2024-11-09 08:40
New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements
A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel...
2024-11-09 08:16
Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm
Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers...
2024-11-09 06:10
KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week...
2024-11-09 05:57
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees, ends advocacy for open web, privacy, and more
More bad news from Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.” Announcing the layoffs in an email t...
2024-11-08 20:43
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Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics
The belated first release candidate of Mesa 24.3 is now available for testing of the upgraded OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers commonly used on Linux systems and elsewhere...
2024-11-08 20:34
Fedora KDE approved to become of equal status to Fedora GNOME
Earlier this year, a proposal was made to replace the primary edition of Fedora from the GNOME variant to the KDE variant. This proposal, while serious, was mostly intended to stir up discussion about the position of the Fedora KDE spin within the larg...
2024-11-08 20:33
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Wine 9.21 Brings DirectPlay Network Enhancements, I/O Completion Fixes
Following a one week delay, Wine 9.21 has been released as the latest development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems. We are also closing in on the approaching Wine 10.0...
2024-11-08 19:08
VIDEO: Q&A with Mark Surman
Last month we had a great chat with two members of the Thunderbird Council, our community governance body. This month, we’re looking at the relationship between Thunderbird and our parent organization, MZLA, and the broader Mozilla Foundation. We cou...
2024-11-08 17:57
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 207
Safari Technology Preview Release 207 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.
2024-11-08 16:30
KDE Frameworks 6.8 Adds Breeze Icons for Typst Files and Fixes Many Bugs
KDE Frameworks 6.8 is now available with Breeze icons for Typst files, monochrome variants for a bunch of symbolic Breeze icons, as well as various bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post KDE Frameworks 6.8 Adds Breeze Icons for Typst Files and Fixes Ma...
2024-11-08 16:07
Calibre 7.21 Brings Read Aloud Fixes, New Audio Overlay
Calibre ebook manager, converter, and reader is out with a new update, and it adds an enticing sounding new feature. For a while now Calibre has offered a ‘read aloud’ feature that does exactly what you think it does: a computer voice reads the tex...
2024-11-08 15:45
Calibre 7.2.1 Brings Read Aloud Fixes, New Audio Overlay
Calibre ebook manager, converter, and reader is out with a new update, and it adds an enticing sounding new feature. For a while now Calibre has offered a ‘read aloud’ feature that does exactly what you think it does: a computer voice reads the tex...
2024-11-08 15:45
Contribute at the Test Week for the Anaconda Web UI Installer for Fedora Workstation
The Workstation team is working on the final integration of Anaconda Web UI Installer for Fedora Linux Workstation. As a result, the Fedora Workstation Working Group and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, Nov 11, 2024 to Monday, Nov 18, 2...
2024-11-08 15:04
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Rolls Out with Wireless Display Improvements, Bug Fixes
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 mobile operating system is now available with improved wireless display, support for newer generations of Android HAL, and other changes. The post Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Rolls Out with Wireless Display Improvements, Bug Fixes appeared fi...
2024-11-08 12:26
OpenZFS 2.3-rc3 Adds JSON Output For Commonly Used Commands
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release as a big step forward for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...
2024-11-08 12:02