OwnCloud Dropbox Alternative Merges With Proprietary Kiteworks

Terms of this three-way merger that also includes Dracoon have not been disclosed.
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Alpine Linux 3.19 Released With Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS and Raspberry Pi 5 Support

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.6 LTS kernel series, Alpine Linux 3.19 adds support for the latest Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer, enables iptables-nft as the default iptables backend, and replaces the linux-rpi4 and linux-rpi2 kernels…

AI Alliance for Open Innovation Formed By IBM and Meta With Intel, AMD, and More

All the members of this AI-focused alliance are set to collaborate with each other by being part of an open community that allows both developers and researchers to further “responsible innovation” in AI.
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Linux 6.8 To Drop The SLAB Allocator, SLUB Optimizations Coming Too

Following the SLOB allocator removal earlier this year, the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year is now positioned to remove the SLAB allocator. Additionally, the lone good-for-everything SLUB allocator is set to receive further optimizations.

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Critical Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Android, Apple & Linux Devices to Takeover

Attackers can exploit a critical Bluetooth security vulnerability that’s been lurking largely unnoticed for years on macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux device platforms. The keystroke injection vulnerability allows an attacker to control the targeted device as if they were attached by a Bluetooth keyboard, performing various functions remotely depending on the endpoint. Read more at […]

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Endless OS 5.1 Rolls Out With Enhanced Learning Experience

Still based on Debian 11, Endless OS 5.1 is a minor release with Endless Key, updated hardware support, and incremental improvements.
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Raspberry Pi OS Gets New Dark GTK Theme, Better Raspberry Pi 5 Support

The new Raspberry Pi OS release, versioned 2023-12-05, brings a new dark GTK theme, enables the Battery Monitor plugin, adds a new “Taskbar Preferences” menu item to the panel’s right-click context menu, and enables monitoring of theme files in the pix…

Vote for openSUSE’s New Logo Closes Dec 12

The openSUSE project in currently undergoing of a brand refresh aimed at establishing a distinct identity from its parent company, SUSE. Community designers were invited to submit designs for an…

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KDE Announces Finalists in Plasma 6 Wallpaper Contest

Here are the top six contenders in KDE’s wallpaper contest! One of these exceptional designs will be the default wallpaper for Plasma 6.
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KDE Plasma 5.27.10 Improves Night Color With Automatic Location, Fixes Bugs

KDE Plasma 5.27.10 is here one and a half months after KDE Plasma 5.27.9 to address more bugs, such as the one causing the Night Color to start transitioning to night mode at inappropriate times when using automatic location, as well as a bug causing the positions of desktop icons to be remembered incorrectly, especially […]

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Double-Clicking Apple Pages, Numbers Docs in Ubuntu Bug Fix

Ubuntu ships with LibreOffice because it’s a powerful open-source office suite compatible with documents created in other productivity apps, including Microsoft Office and Apple’s iWork. While LibreOffice can open files made in Apple Pages …

Ethical Hacking Distro Kali Linux 2023.4 Brings Support for Raspberry Pi 5

Coming after Kali Linux 2023.3, the Kali Linux 2023.4 release is here to introduce support for the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer. A dedicated image is available for those who want to use Kali Linux on the tiny computer, but you can also install it through the official Raspberry Pi Imager flashing utility, which is […]

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GNOME 45.2 Released With Various Fixes and Performance Improvements

GNOME 45.2 is here more than five weeks after GNOME 45.1 and improves the GNOME Shell component by optimizing application search, improving high-contrast styling, and adding support for a “version-name” field in extension metainfo as GNOME Shell extens…

All Systems Are ‘Go’ as KDE Plasma 6 Readies for Its Prime Time Debut

The first beta release of KDE Plasma 6, which exchanges X11 for Wayland, was released last week. The second beta will be released in two weeks.
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Shotwell 0.32.4 Released with 3D MPO File Support & Improved Slideshow

Shotwell photo viewer and organizer released new version 0.32.4 a few days ago. The new release added basic .mpo file support, which is a stereoscopic image consisting of two overlapping 2D images in JPG format. Besides that, the release also has improved slideshow support. It now supports for shuffled slideshows, allow setting wallpaper slideshows even […]

Mobile OS /e/OS 1.17 Released With Enhanced Privacy & Functionality

A fresh new release of the open-source mobile operating system e/OS 1.17 is now available to download and experience via available phones.
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Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 Brings Secure Boot Compatibility

Based on Debian 12.2 “Bookworm,” Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 ships with secure boot and local sync jobs support. Here’s more on that!
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Shotcut 23.11 Open-Source Video Editor Adds NVIDIA AV1 Hardware Encoding

Shotcut 23.11 open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software written in Qt has been officially released today as a major update that brings some new features and lots of improvements.
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Arch Linux’s December 2023 ISO Release Brings Linux 6.6 LTS, Updated Installer

Arch Linux’s December 2023 ISO release includes archinstall 2.7, which brings two important features: support for unified kernel image (UKI), which is a single executable that can be booted directly from the UEFI firmware, and the ability to check for …

Meta and IBM Assemble Open-Source AI Super Team

Development of open-source AI models just got a major boost with the launch of the AI Alliance, a super-team made up of companies, developers, scientists, academics, and spearheaded by Meta and IBM, owners of Red Hat. While governments around the world…