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GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate Ready with Major New Features
If it feels like the next major release of open source image editor The GIMP has been in the works forever, know that anticipation for its arrival has been building longer still – yet the wait will soon be over. Today, a GIMP 3.0 release candidate wa...
2024-11-05 23:40
GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate Arrives with Major New Features
If it feels like the next major release of open source image editor The GIMP has been in the works forever, know that anticipation for its arrival has been building longer still – yet the wait will soon be over. Today, a GIMP 3.0 release candidate wa...
2024-11-05 23:40
New Steam Client Update Improves Native Linux Gaming and Fixes Many Bugs
New Steam Client update improves native Linux gaming, makes detection and passing of commands faster, and fixes multiple bugs. Here's what's new! The post New Steam Client Update Improves Native Linux Gaming and Fixes Many Bugs appeared first on 9to5Li...
2024-11-05 22:35
New Steam Client Update Adds Game Recording, Improves Native Linux Gaming
New Steam Client update improves native Linux gaming, makes detection and passing of commands faster, and fixes multiple bugs. Here's what's new! The post New Steam Client Update Adds Game Recording, Improves Native Linux Gaming appeared first on 9to5L...
2024-11-05 22:35
What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41
Fedora 41 has been released! 🎉 So let’s see what arrives with the new releases for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic and Budgie Atomic). bootupd enabled by default for UEFI systems (BIOS coming soon) After a lon...
2024-11-05 21:45
GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released For Testing
The long elusive GIMP 3.0 image editor that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop has finally reached the release candidate phase of development...
2024-11-05 16:26
KDE Plasma 6.2.3 Brings Better Support for HDR Displays, Various Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.2.3 desktop environment is now available with better support for HDR displays, as well as various bug fixes and improvements. The post KDE Plasma 6.2.3 Brings Better Support for HDR Displays, Various Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to5Linux -...
2024-11-05 15:48
What is IoT device management?
IoT device management refers to processes or practices used to deploy, monitor and maintain IoT devices. As organizations scale up their IoT efforts, a solid device management approach is essential to running a secure, streamlined fleet of devices.  T...
2024-11-05 15:28
Power Determinism Mode Still Proves Beneficial For AMD EPYC 9005 Performance
Typically in my launch-day Linux reviews of new AMD EPYC processors I try to include results both of the performance determinism (default) and power determinism modes available with these server processors since opting in to the power determinism mode ...
2024-11-05 15:25
Open-Source PowerVR Driver Being Extended For The Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU
Upstreamed at the start of the year was the Imagination PowerVR open-source DRM kernel driver for newer Imagination Rogue GPUs. That upstream kernel driver is now being extended to cover the Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU...
2024-11-05 11:33
LXQt 2.1 Desktop Environment Released with Initial Wayland Support
LXQt 2.1 desktop environment is now available with initial Wayland support, as well as improvements to PCManFM-Qt, LXQt Panel, QTerminal, and more. Here's what's new! The post LXQt 2.1 Desktop Environment Released with Initial Wayland Support appeared ...
2024-11-05 07:47
LXQt 2.1 Desktop Environment Released with Experimental Wayland Session
LXQt 2.1 desktop environment is now available with initial Wayland support, as well as improvements to PCManFM-Qt, LXQt Panel, QTerminal, and more. Here's what's new! The post LXQt 2.1 Desktop Environment Released with Experimental Wayland Session appe...
2024-11-05 07:47
Linux 6.13 To Drop Fieldbus Just Five Years After Being Merged
Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus subsystem as a set of network protocols for real-time distributed control of automated industrial systems. But now five years later, Fieldbus is being removed from the mainline Linux kernel since the code hasn't bee...
2024-11-05 06:36
Linux 6.13 To Enhance Logic For Trusting Built-In Thunderbolt Controllers
Due to the possibility of DMA attacks from connected Thunderbolt devices, Linux and other platforms have built up safeguards over the years and different security levels for Thunderbolt to better protect systems having this high speed interface exposin...
2024-11-05 06:14
LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component
LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component...
2024-11-05 05:51
Intel Panther Lake Display Support Squeezing Into Linux 6.13
Queued up over the past month into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle has been initial support for Xe3 graphics to be found with Panther Lake processors. The initial Xe3 graphics driver support patches have been trickling in while the final ...
2024-11-04 20:24
Join us for Microsoft Ignite
The Canonical team is gearing up for the next big gathering at Microsoft Ignite 2024, which will take place from November 18 – 22, 2024. Get ready to dive deep into the latest conversations that will shape the future of cloud and open-source innovati...
2024-11-04 18:59
Raspberry Pi Gives its Tiny Touch Display a Big Upgrade
Raspberry Pi has announced a new version of its 7-inch ‘Touch Display’ accessory. And given that the previous model was announced 9 years ago, some kind of update was arguably due for this device. The Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 runs at a higher-r...
2024-11-04 18:35
TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart
To clear up the ever-growing stack of laptops, I recently bought a TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart. This laptop/tablet storage cart can accommodate 32 devices in total while slots for up to 30 laptops/tablets 16.3-inches in size. It does ha...
2024-11-04 13:57
Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 6.0 For Speedy AVX2/AVX-512 Sorting, PyTorch Now Using It
The x86-simd-sort project from Intel has been an interesting open-source software effort for much faster number sorting by using AVX-512. There's been lightning fast number sorting with AVX-512 and AVX2 code paths also added to broaden the appeal in he...
2024-11-04 13:22