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Apple Maps on Web Now Works on Linux (But Only in Firefox)
Something to file under “won’t please many Linux users, but is nonetheless a good thing™ for choice”, Apple Maps on the web now works on Linux. Apple launched a web-based version of Apple Maps in beta in July, bringing its mapping service to no...
2024-11-03 20:48
Linux 6.12-rc6 Released With That Latest Performance Optimization & Various Fixes
Linus Torvalds has just issued the Linux 6.12-rc6 kernel release as we close in on the stable Linux 6.12 kernel release later in November...
2024-11-03 19:18
OSNews fundraising goal reached in less than a week
It’s been less than a week, and late Friday night we reached the fundraiser goal of €2500 (it sat at 102% when I closed it) on Ko-Fi! I’m incredibly grateful for each and every donation, big or small, and every new Patreon that joined our ranks. ...
2024-11-03 19:10
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Linux Mint Adding Native ‘Night Light’ Feature to Cinnamon
Linux Mint has revealed it’s brining a native ‘night light’ mode to the Cinnamon desktop. Earlier versions of Linux Mint included a third-party app called Redshift to provide similar functionality. However, when then Mozilla location service was ...
2024-11-03 14:58
Linux Mint is Adding a Native ‘Night Light’ Feature to Cinnamon
Linux Mint has announced it’s adding a native Night Light feature to the Cinnamon desktop. Earlier versions of Linux Mint included a third-party app called Redshift to provide similar ‘blue light’ filtering functionality. However, when the Mozill...
2024-11-03 14:58
The 2024 State of Open Source in Financial Services
“For the financial services industry, open source collaboration is a strategically relevant practice” said “The 2024 State of Open Source in Financial Services,” the fourth annual research report by the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS)...
2024-11-03 13:53
Linux Mint Is Getting a Night Light Feature in Cinnamon, Framework Laptop Support
Linux Mint distribution is getting a Night Light feature for the Cinnamon desktop environment and support for Framework laptops. The post Linux Mint Is Getting a Night Light Feature in Cinnamon, Framework Laptop Support appeared first on 9to5Linux - do...
2024-11-03 13:42
Monthly News – October 2024
Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Night Light in Cinnamon The team is working on adding Night Light support in Cinnamon. Night Light consists in reducing the amount of blue light emitted by the screen. It makes the color of your moni...
2024-11-03 13:15
Rust-Based Redox OS Gets RISC-V Working, Also Now Booting On The Raspberry Pi 4
The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update...
2024-11-03 10:34
AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13
The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel...
2024-11-03 09:30
Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer
The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October...
2024-11-03 09:10
Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra
With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop...
2024-11-03 06:26
Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3
Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release...
2024-11-03 06:11
Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches
While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few day...
2024-11-03 05:58
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 Released To Work Toward This Next Release
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 is out today as the first tagged test snapshot in working toward this newest FreeBSD 14 point release...
2024-11-02 15:49
Bug or intentional? macOS 15.1 completely removes ability to launch unsigned applications
Many MacOS users are probably used by now to the annoyance that comes with unsigned applications, as they require a few extra steps to launch them. This feature is called Gatekeeper and checks for an Apple Developer ID certificate. Starting with MacOS ...
2024-11-02 13:06
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Cloudflare's Pingora 0.4 Rust Framework Released With Experimental Windows Support
Cloudflare's Pingora Rust framework that was written as a replacement to Nginx and made publicly open-source earlier this year with a focus on building fast and reliable networked systems is out with its newest feature release...
2024-11-02 12:00
Genode-Based Sculpt OS 24.10 Introduces Multi-Monitor Support
Sculpt OS for what has been working to become a general purpose operating system built off the original Genode is out with a new feature release...
2024-11-02 08:44
Intel Lands VVC VA-API Hardware Decoding Into FFmpeg
Intel has integrated VVC VA-API hardware accelerated decoding support into the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library...
2024-11-02 06:49
KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary of interesting KDE changes in closing out October...
2024-11-02 06:30