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GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing
GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...
2025-02-10 10:51
Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code
Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can ev...
2025-02-10 09:02
Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps
KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less c...
2025-02-10 08:51
Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration
You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest f...
2025-02-10 08:28
The state of the Location permission on Fedora Linux in 2025
This article will discuss the state of finding your current geographical location in the Fedora Linux environment. Background For many mobile devices it is useful to get the current location. This is usually done using a GPS sensor, where the coordinat...
2025-02-10 08:00
New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz
A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...
2025-02-10 06:43
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support
Adding to the Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is honoring of the low latency encoding options...
2025-02-10 06:31
Microsoft Continues Enhancing Its Azure Linux 3.0 Distribution With February Update
Microsoft engineers released Azure Linux 3.0.20250206 overnight as the newest monthly update to this in-house Microsoft Linux distribution that is used within their Azure cloud infrastructure and a variety of other purposes at the Redmond company...
2025-02-10 06:07
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 9th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for February 9th, 2025, brings news about LibreOffice 25.2, Firefox 135, PorteuX 1.9, Thunderbird 135, Tails 6.12, Calibre 7.25, KDE Gear 24.12.2, Ardour 8.11, fwupd 2.0.5, as well as all the latest distro and software upda...
2025-02-10 02:20
ONLYOFFICE 8.3 Released with Apple iWork Support, Shape Merging + More
A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is now available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.3 brings a bunch of new features and nimble enhancements spread throughout the full suite, which is ...
2025-02-09 16:57
ONLYOFFICE 8.3 Released with Support for Apple iWork Files
A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is now available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.3 brings a bunch of new features and nimble enhancements spread throughout the full suite, which is ...
2025-02-09 16:57
ONLYOFFICE 8.3 Released, Now Supports Apple iWork Files
A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is now available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.3 brings a bunch of new features and nimble enhancements spread throughout the full suite, which is ...
2025-02-09 16:57
Linux 6.14-rc2 Released With Apple Silicon Maintainer Change, Bcachefs Fixes
The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.14 is now available for testing as a rather light update for the week...
2025-02-09 16:12
Linux Patches Adjust AC Plug/Unplug Behavior During s2idle To Match Windows
A set of patches sent out on Saturday by AMD Linux engineer Mario Limonciello seek to adjust the Linux behavior for laptops/handhelds during AC plug/unplug events during s2idle to better match that of Microsoft Windows 11...
2025-02-09 13:10
Curious Intel Linux Driver Maintainer Changes In Recent Days
This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers...
2025-02-09 10:33
Intel ISPC 1.26 Compiler Delivers Improved ARM Support
Intel's ISPC project as the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as this C language variant for Single Program, Multiple Data programming on CPUs and GPUs is out with a new release...
2025-02-09 08:00
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still in...
2025-02-09 06:39
Linux FineIBT-BHI Updated For Toughening Up FineIBT Kernel Defenses
Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra has updated his set of patches implementing FineIBT-BHI mitigations for toughening up the FineIBT kernel protections previously introduced. This FineIBT-BHI code depends upon newly-merged code for the LLVM Clang comp...
2025-02-09 06:29
Wine-Staging 10.1 Delivers 361 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
Following the release of Wine 10.1 on Friday for kicking off the new bi-weekly development releases after last month's Wine 10.0 stable release, Wine-Staging 10.1 is out today to get things moving once again for this experimental flavor of Wine...
2025-02-09 06:17
Contribute to GNOME Software with DNF5 Test Day
The DNF5 team is working on ironing out bugs around matching the existing functionality of GNOME Software with PackageKit. The DNF and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday,February 10, 2025 to Monday, February 17, 2025. The wiki page in this...
2025-02-08 18:36