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Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit
The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment...
2024-09-30 20:00
Linux Mint Gives First Look at New Cinnamon Theme
As revealed last month, Linux Mint is working on an improved default theme for the Cinnamon desktop – and today we got our first look at what’s coming. The way Cinnamon looks in Linux Mint (the distribution) is not the way it looks if you insta...
2024-09-30 19:00
Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!
The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in t...
2024-09-30 19:00
How to deploy AI workloads at the edge using open source solutions
Running AI workloads at the edge with Canonical and Lenovo AI is driving a new wave of opportunities in all kinds of edge settings—from predictive maintenance in manufacturing, to virtual assistants in healthcare, to telco router optimisation in the ...
2024-09-30 18:00
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (charles) Joenio Marques da Costa (joenio) Blair Noctis (ncts) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last tw...
2024-09-30 16:30
DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc
An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the ...
2024-09-30 16:00
The waiting game is over. 5G is coming to the edge.
Canonical and Omdia’s report reveals that 96% of CSPs will launch commercial 5G edge computing within 2 years. In this blog, we examine the drivers behind this optimism.
2024-09-30 16:00
Linux Mint 22.1 Slated for Release in December with Revamped Cinnamon Theme
The Linux Mint 22.1 distribution was slated for release in December 2024 with a revamped Cinnamon theme and better package management. Here's a sneak peek! The post Linux Mint 22.1 Slated for Release in December with Revamped Cinnamon Theme appeared fi...
2024-09-30 15:00
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - September 2024
Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for September 2024! This month, the rolling-release model has kept pace with numerous important updates and bug fixes. PostgreSQL received a major update moving to 17 and text shaping engine harfbuzz had a m...
2024-09-30 15:00
California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law (AB 2426) to combat “disappearing” purchases of digital games, movies, music, and ebooks. The legislation will force digital storefronts to tell customers they’re just getting a license to use the...
2024-09-30 14:00
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Mozilla Firefox 131 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 131 open-source web browser is now available for download with supports for text fragments, improved translations, temporarily site permissions, and more. The post Mozilla Firefox 131 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What&#82...
2024-09-30 14:00
Audacious 4.4.1 Open-Source Audio Player Brings New Features and Improvements
Audacious 4.4.1 open-source media player is now availablewith titlebar dimming for Winamp skins, improved control responsiveness, Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin, and more. The post Audacious 4.4.1 Open-Source Audio Player Brings New F...
2024-09-30 14:00
Monthly News – September 2024
Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Visual improvements in Cinnamon Within the team Joseph continues to work his magic. Bit by bit he’s improving the look and feel of the Cinnamon desktop. The new default theme landed on the mast...
2024-09-30 14:00
Mission Center (Linux System Monitor) Now Reports Fan Info
A major new release of Mission Center, a modern system monitor app for Linux desktops, has been released. Fans of this Rust-based GTK4/libadwaita system monitoring tool (which to address the recurring elephant in the room does indeed have a user interf...
2024-09-30 14:00
Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Performance Disappoints On Linux
While I have been very eager to test out the Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake series on Linux in part due to the new Xe2 integrated graphics, after several days of pushing a new Lunar Lake laptop on Linux the results have been very disappointing. Besides nee...
2024-09-30 13:00
Build your private 5G network with Charmed Aether SD-Core
You might recall that we recently announced the beta release of Charmed Aether SD-Core, bringing automation to the Linux Foundation’s open source 5G software-defined core (SD-Core) networking software. SD-Core is distributed by the Aether project and...
2024-09-30 12:00
What the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) means for IoT manufacturers
The EU Cyber Resilience Act has considerable repercussions for the IoT device manufacturers. In this blog, we explore these new regulatory requirements and give our blueprint for compliant, market-ready devices.
2024-09-30 12:00
Cpufreq_ext Being Worked On For BPF-Based CPU Frequency Scaling
The newly-merged sched_ext allows for the Linux kernel scheduler to be made more extensible by allowing BPF programs to be loaded to affect the kernel's scheduling behavior. There's now a similar take on CPU frequency scaling: cpufreq_ext. There's a "r...
2024-09-30 12:00
FFmpeg 7.1 “Péter” Released with Full Native VVC Decoder, Vulkan Hardware Encoding
FFmpeg 7.1 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with a full native VVC decoder, a new MV-HEVC decoder, a new LC-EVC decoder, a new xHE-AAC decoder, Vulkan hardware encoding, and more. Here's what's new! The post FFmpeg 7.1 &#8...
2024-09-30 11:00
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Excited Linux Users The Most In Q3
With the third quarter drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source related content for the quarter. This quarter there's been more than 730 news articles and 50 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles all w...
2024-09-30 11:00