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Gentoo Linux Becomes an SPI Associated Project for Fiscal Efficiency

Gentoo partners with Software in the Public Interest to enhance its non-profit status, promising tax benefits for US donors.
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Nextcloud Ups AI ‘Assistant’ to 2.0 and Backports It to Nextcloud Hub 7

Nextcloud has gone all-in on its generative AI Assistant. Version 2.0 has increased capabilities while giving users more fine grained control.
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Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland Is Now Finally Merged into XOrg Server

NVIDIA’s year-long request to add explicit sync support to the DRI3 and Present extensions, and the Xwayland implementation, has finally been merged.
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OpenSSL 3.3 Released with Support for QLog for Tracing QUIC Connections

OpenSSL 3.3 is now available for download with support for QLog for tracing QUIC connections, limited support for polling of QUIC connections and stream objects in a non-blocking manner, and more.
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GParted Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.7

GParted Live 1.6.0-3 live system based on the GParted free partition manager is now available for download to address the XZ backdoor, bump the kernel to Linux 6.7, and update the GRUB bootloader.
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Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro for Devices Subscription for IoT Deployments

Canonical launches Ubuntu Pro for Devices subscription for IoT deployments, bringing security and long-term compliance for up to 10 years.
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Canonical Announces Netplan 1.0 with Simultaneous WPA2 and WPA3 Support

After more than seven years of development, Canonical’s Netplan utility for easily configuring networking on a Linux system has finally matured with version 1.0, a major release introducing exciting new features.
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Wine 9.6 Introduce Advanced AVX and More Direct2D Enhancements

Wine 9.6 brings advanced AVX support, Direct2D effects, RSA OAEP padding in BCrypt, and bug fixes. Here’s more on that!
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Firefox Getting Translate Selected Text Feature, Here’s How to Try It

A handy new translations feature is in the works for Mozilla Firefox that should help speed up translating short snippets of text from one language to another. Firefox 118 introduced a privacy-respecting web page translation feature, and Mozilla devs h…

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FFmpeg 7.0 Brings Experimental VVC Decoder & IAMF Support

FFmpeg 7.0 ‘Dijkstra’ is a major release with experimental VVC decoding, IAMF support, a multithreaded CLI tool, and more.
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In a First, AlmaLinux Patches a Security Hole That Remains Unpatched in Upstream RHEL

Until last November’s release of AlmaLinux 9.3, you wouldn’t see AlmaLinux issuing a security patch to fix any hole that remains unpatched in RHEL, just as you would be unlikely to see Rocky Linux — another RHEL clone — issuing a patch for its distro until after Red Hat had fixed the same vulnerability in […]

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EndeavourOS Bids Farewell to ARM Branch

After a vibrant five-year journey enhancing ARM device support, EndeavourOS ARM concludes, thanking its lead devs. Here’s more on that!
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Developer Explains Why Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues

If you’ve ever wondered why some Linux users are experiencing issues with an NVIDIA GPU on Wayland and you aren’t, KDE developer Xaver Hugl explains in a recent post why the explicit sync protocol will finally settle the score for everyone.
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EndeavourOS Devs Say “Goodbye” to Their ARM Branch, Maintainers Needed

EndeavourOS ARM branch is in danger of going away forever due to lack of maintainers and the lack of recent changes in the upstream Arch Linux ARM project.
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PiVPN Releases Final Version and Announces Project Shutdown

PiVPN’s journey concludes with v4.6.0. The last update brings bug fixes, refactors, and the addition of Pi-hole in unattended installs.
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30,000 German Government PCs to Switch to LibreOffice

Schleswig-Holstein Government agencies to adopt Linux and LibreOffice to move away from vendor lock-in.
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Fragments Torrent App Update Adds Much-Requested Feature

A new version of the open-source BitTorrent client Fragments is available to download. Fragments 3.0 sees the file-sharing fulfil a long-standing feature request from users, namely the ability to choose…

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Peppermint Mini ISOs Get a Major Update

Peppermint Mini’s latest ISO updates enhance setup with direct firmware integration and a unified installer theme. Here’s more on that!
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Kodi 21.0 ‘Omega’ Rolls Out, Here’s What’s New

Kodi’s latest update, 21.0′ Omega,’ brings many improvements, including HiDPI support, speech recognition, DXVA Video Super Resolution, and more.
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Kodi 21 “Omega” Stable Officially Released! [How to Install]

After more than a year of development, Kodi media player 21, code-name “Omega”, is finally released! Kodi 21 is a new major release. It’s now based on FFmpeg 6.0, that features Radiance HDR image support, VAAPI decoding and QSV decoding for 10/12bit 422, 10/12bit 444 HEVC and VP9, MediaCodec decoder, and various other exciting new […]

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