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Solus 4.7 Released with Linux 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2, and Xfce 4.20
Solus 4.7 distribution is now available for download powered by Linux 6.12 LTS and featuring updated GNOME, KDE Plasma, Budgie, and Xfce editions. Here’s what’s new! The post Solus 4.7 Released with Linux 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2, and Xfc...
2025-01-26 05:01
Shotcut 25.01 Video Editor Adds Native Wayland Support on Flatpak for Linux
Shotcut 25.01 open-source video editor is now available for download with native Wayland support in the Flatpak bundle on Linux. The post Shotcut 25.01 Video Editor Adds Native Wayland Support on Flatpak for Linux appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not r...
2025-01-25 23:24
Shotcut 25.01 Open-Source Video Editor Brings New Features
The Shotcut open-source video editor is out with its first new release of 2025...
2025-01-25 20:49
Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 Released With Battlemage Video Encode
The Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 release was tagged this Saturday as the quarterly update to Intel's open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems...
2025-01-25 15:27
Infomaniak Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is Switzerland’s leading developer of Web technologies. With operations all over Europe and based exclusively in Switzerland, the company...
2025-01-25 11:22
ISD: A New Interactive Way For systemd Management
ISD is a new open-source project aiming to provide a more "Interactive SystemD" for simplifying management of Linux systems with systemd...
2025-01-25 09:28
Much Faster Suspend & Resume For Some Systems With Linux 6.14
Alongside the power management and thermal driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle were also the ACPI updates. The ACPI pull request was worth calling out on its own thanks to a change that will allow for faster suspend and res...
2025-01-25 07:19
Intel THC, Wacom PCI Device & SteelSeries Arctis 9 Support Land In Linux 6.14
All of the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-25 07:01
SUSE's New "Agama 11" Installer Preps For SLES 16 Beta / openSUSE Leap 16
The SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer is a modern web UI driven installer for the SUSE/openSUSE Linux distributions. It's modern, sports a cleaner UI and underlying architecture, and supports more features. The Agama 11 installer update was released this w...
2025-01-25 06:46
Linux 6.14 Drops EFI's Long Obsolete UGA Protocol
The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. The EFI updates this cycle aren't the most exciting but the kernel has finally bid farewell to the long obsolete UGA graphics protocol support...
2025-01-25 06:35
KDE Plasma 6.4 Begins Seeing Early Feature Work, Plasma 6.3 Sees More Fixes
This week saw an updated KDE Plasma 6.3 beta release and more bug fixing taking place there while also beginning to see early feature work toward the follow-on Plasma 6.4 desktop...
2025-01-25 06:15
Uncached Buffered I/O & Some Other Nice Memory Management Optimizations With Linux 6.14
Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his "MM" pull request for Linux 6.14 as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version...
2025-01-24 20:28
Ubuntu 24.04.2 Arrives Feb 13 with Linux Kernel 6.11
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is scheduled for release on February 13th – in time for Valentines Day, aww. Canonical’s Florent Jacquet shares the date on the Ubuntu Developer mailing list today along with a note to developers to be mindful of their package up...
2025-01-24 16:37
Linux 6.14 Adds Support For Blaize BLZP1600, SpacemiT K1 & Snapdragon 8 Elite SoCs
The four SoC pull requests were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. These pull requests are principally about various ARM SoC and platform hardware additions/changes but also an increasing number of RISC-V SoC activity too...
2025-01-24 13:52
Vulkan 1.4.306 Published With Two More Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.306 was published this morning as the newest routine specification update to this graphics/compute API...
2025-01-24 13:10
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Performance Benchmarks
While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for yo...
2025-01-24 11:36
GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New
GNOME 48 Alpha is now available for public testing with support for accent colors, Wayland improvements, and many other changes. Here’s what to expect! The post GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New appeared first ...
2025-01-24 11:26
Several Linux DRM Drivers Orphaned Due To Developer Health
Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer...
2025-01-24 10:06
Linux 6.14 Bringing Better Read Performance For CIFS
The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel...
2025-01-24 08:57
Linux 6.14 Delivering Better Read Performance For CIFS
The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel...
2025-01-24 08:57