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PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 20:21
Following last week's PipeWire 1.0 release candidate, today a second release candidate was published as part of the project's plan for reaching v1.0 before the end of the year for this widely-used Linux audio/video streams server that is a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK...

Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 18:54
While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds. But -- at long last -- that might finally change soon...

Qt Creator 12 Beta Brings Integrated Compiler Explorer

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 18:45
Following this week's release of Qt 6.6, the Qt Creator 12 beta has been released for this Qt and C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE)...

openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Released For Lightweight Environments & Containers

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 18:32
OpenSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 is now available as the latest community version of SUSE Linux's Enterprise Micro. openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 is a great choice for a lightweight Linux OS particularly for VMs and containers...

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