KDE developer Xaver Hugl explains why the explicit synchronization protocol will finally encourage the Wayland adoption among NVIDIA GPU users.
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Kodi 21.0 open-source and free home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media is now available with major changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Netplan 1.0 open-source network management utility is now available with simultaneous WPA2 and WPA3 support, Mellanox VF-LAG support for high-performance SR-IOV networking, and more.
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Thunderbird enhances the Linux experience by supporting Snap, ensuring all users enjoy the email client without limits.
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AlmaLinux can now develop and apply security patches and bug fixes ahead of RHEL, because it no longer seeks to be a line-by-line exact copy of Red Hat’s operating system.
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Fwupd 1.9.16 has been released today as a new maintenance update to this open-source Linux firmware update utility for Linux-based operating systems that brings support for new devices and some important changes.
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A new version of Power Profiles Daemon in Ubuntu 24.04 offers power efficiency improvements for laptop users, but those with modern AMD devices may see the biggest gains. Release notes for the power-profiles-daemon package uploaded to Ubuntu 24.04 this…
Coming about four and a half months after Qt Creator 12, Qt Creator 13 is out now as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that simplifies GUI application development in Qt.
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Himelstein will not be replaced by another CTO. RISC-V International is currently looking for a VP of Technology, which will be their highest-ranking technology officer going forward.
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FFmpeg 7.0 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with Dolby Vision profile 10 support in AV1, important AArch64 optimizations for HEVC, and many other changes.
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Fwupd 1.9.16 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the zstd compression algorithm for compressing metadata, support for new devices, and a bunch of bug fixes.
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Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project’s long-time contributors.
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As Team Kodi PPA retires, the focus shifts to Flatpak to deliver stable and nightly Kodi builds to more Linux users.
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Qt Creator 13 open-source IDE is now available for download with offline and online installers for Linux on ARM, as well as various improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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Himelstein will not be replaced by another CTO. RISC-V International is currently looking for a VP of technology, which will be their highest ranking technology officer going forward.
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Recent sshd/xz backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) reveals risks in systemd’s libsystemd, sparking debate on dependency reduction. Here’s more on that!
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After only twelve maintenance updates, the Linux 6.7 kernel series is now marked as EOL (End of Life), which means that it will no longer receive bug and security fixes. Users who use Linux kernel 6.7 are now urged to upgrade to Linux kernel 6.8 releas…
LXC 6.0 LTS container management solution launches with major updates: IPV6, squashfs images, and a new timeout function.
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Canonical rebuilds Ubuntu 24.04 LTS packages for Noble Numbat Beta, ensuring safety from CVE-2024-3094 threat.
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Fwupd developer and maintainer Richard Hughes announced today that future releases of the popular Linux firmware updater used by GNU/Linux distributions to update the firmware of various hardware devices are moving away from XZ Utils and will adopt Zst…