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After about a year and a half since the last beta, Haiku R1/beta5 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just...

Following the GNOME Foundation Executive Director leaving after less than one year, the GNOME Foundation has formally begun their search for a new executive director...

While not quite as exciting as the latest ARM64 laptops sporting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 series SoCs, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop using the older Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is now available to boot and install using the generic ARM64 images of the...

This (half-)month in Python and elsewhere: Python’s “dead batteries” are about to be removed—and soon. Here’s how to live without them. Also, get started with Pillow for image processing, and find out how Python’s built-in enum module make...

The U.S. Commerce Department announced on Monday that it is proposing detailed reporting requirements for advanced developers of artificial intelligence and cloud computing providers. In an era when artificial intelligence and cloud computing are driv...

This (half-)month in Python and elsewhere: Python’s “dead batteries” are about to be removed—and soon. Here’s how to live without them. Also, get started with Pillow for image processing, and find out how Python’s built-in enum module make...

We’ve upgraded the embroidered Fedora shirt collection with dark blue and white T-shirts and polo shirts. There’s a coupon code below, read onward for more details. Half of the Fedora backpacks were for free After delivering more than 800 embroider...

David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling. The proposed Attack Vector Controls makes ...

Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project rema...

The LoongArch changes for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening. For enhancing KVM virtualization on these Chinese CPUs is enabling Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for accelerating ARM...

The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser merged two notable features yesterday for Linux users...

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...

K1 Investment Management, the new owner of MariaDB, sent a strong hint about what its future plans for the company may entail with the appointment of Rohit de Souza as the organization’s new CEO. While he now has the challenge of overseeing product ...

With the introduction of JFrog Runtime, JFrog has added a component to its software supply chain security and devsecops platform to help users secure container-based applications in production. Introduced September 10, JFrog Runtime integrates with JF...

Microsoft’s .NET 9 software development framework has reached the release candidate stage with featured enhancements to the WebSocket APIs. Additionally, the .NET MAUI Visual Studio Code extension has an added capability to horizontally align text. ...

The fifth and final point release to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now available to download. This update was due to be released a couple of weeks ago but was delayed by a delay in getting Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS out the door – something had to give, so the rel...

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS is now avaialble for download as the fifth and last point release to the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS operating system series, powered by Linux kernel 6.8 from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The post Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) Is Now Available Powe...

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Ardour 8.7 open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) is now available for download with track dragging, combined rulers, MIDI Scene markers, parallel disk I/O, and more. The post Ardour 8.7 DAW Released with Track Dragging, Combined Rulers, MIDI Scen...