Linux Torvalds announced the release of Kernel 6.6 this Monday. It’s the latest mainline kernel so far, that features EEVDF scheduler, and per-policy CPUFreq performance boost control. For Intel, the new kernel added Intel Shadow Stack support to prevent ROP attacks; Initial PECI support for 4th Gen Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” platforms; And, initial support […]
Read MoreMidori has parted ways with Chromium for the next best thing, Gecko, which you must’ve seen being used in browsers such as Firefox, LibreWolf, Tor Browser, and more.
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Netgate discontinues the pfSense Home+Lab offering due to unauthorized redistribution. Dive into the reasons and repercussions.
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Linux kernel 6.7’s merge window is now open, and Bcachefs slid in! All indications point to things happening this time.
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Linux kernel 6.7’s merge window is now open, and Bcachefs slid in! All indications point to things happening this time.
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NVIDIA 545.29.02 is here with beta-quality support for NVIDIA GeForce and NVIDIA Workstation GPUs to open-source Linux kernel modules that NVIDIA offers alongside the proprietary variant of its graphics driver.
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VideoLAN released today VLC 3.0.20 as a new update in the latest VLC 3.0 series of this popular, free, open-source, and cross-platform media player software for GNU/Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, tvOS, and Windows systems.
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Mozilla announced today in a blog post that they are doubling down on offering a DEB package of their popular, open-source, and cross-platform Firefox web browser for Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions.
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Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE 14.1.1) brings the latest application updates, bug fixes, and enhancements with Debian Bookworm updates.
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The Linux kernel 6.6 release is a big one with plenty of improvements across the board for various laptops, networking hardware, processors, and whatnot.
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NVIDIA has released a new driver for Linux that adds support for the Night Light feature in GNOME. Night Light is a feature that reduces the amount of blue light emitted from your display. This, studies show, can help to improve sleep quality, and redu…
Read MoreNew CEO comes to helm as companies like Google, Meta, and TikTok pull out of the Lisbon-based mega-conference in response to accusations from the event’s founder and former CEO that Israel is committing “war crimes.”
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Mozilla has announced a new APT repository to make it easier to install Firefox Nightly builds on Debian-based Linux distros, including Ubuntu.
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A new Linux kernel is out, and it’s better than ever. Linux kernel 6.6 is a big update that delivers an array of improvements, including a new CPU scheduler that promises to improve performance and reduce latency, a new memory-friendly eventfs su…
Read MoreDiscord, the phenomenally popular proprietary chat platform, is now verified on Flathub. For years, a Discord Flatpak app has been available on Flathub albeit without any official association, approval, or contribution from Discord itself. However, tha…
Read MoreBleachBit, the popular free open-source system cleaner application, updates recently with many new features. It’s BleachBit 4.5.1, the beta development release series for the next major 4.6 version. The new release adds new applications support, including cleaning caches for GIMP, FileZilla, and Microsoft Edge. As Flatpak and Snap apps are getting more and more popular […]
Read MoreAlso included in this FOSS Week in Review: The Linux Foundation’s upcoming Technical Advisory Board election.
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Looking for an easy-to-use desktop wallpaper slideshow tool for Ubuntu? The distro doesn’t have a feature to automatically change the desktop background built-in. And while changing your wallpaper manually isn’t difficult I know I often suf…
Read MoreThe Linux Mint project announced today in their monthly newsletter that they’ve started working on implementing a Wayland session for a future release of the Linux Mint distribution, to be initially available in Linux Mint 21.3.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” will be Canonical’s 40th Ubuntu release and 10th LTS (Long-Term Support) release, receiving up to 10 years of software and security updates until April 2034. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is slated for release on April 25, 2024.
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