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Cloud Hypervisor 38 rolled out this week as the newest version of this Rust-based VMM that was started by Intel while now a Linux Foundation hosted project being worked on by multiple different organizations...

Last April was a display/HDR hackfest hosted in the Czech Republic by Red Hat. Another Linux display hackfest has been announced for this year so upstream stakeholders can collaborate around high dynamic range (HDR) monitor support, color management, variable refresh rate (VRR), and other topics...

Linux Developers To Meet Again To Work On HDR, Color Management & VRR  Phoronix

With Linux 6.8 the kernel's Rust code was brought up to Rust 1.75 while new patches posted this weekend port the code over to Rust 1.76 and then the upcoming Rust 1.77...

The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade  Phoronix

Agama Project Revolutionizes openSUSE Linux Installations: A New Era of Accessibility and Excellence  BNN Breaking

Errands: A Simple and Elegant To-Do Companion for Linux  It's FOSS News

Major tech players work with Linux Foundation to improve the mapping universe  SiliconANGLE News

The GNOME 46 beta is out today for featuring the latest fixes and last-minute enhancements to this open-source desktop environment update due out in March...

GNOME 46 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop Installer Will Be Updated with Accessibility Features  9to5Linux

Darktable 4.6.1 Released with Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Linux: Limit Concurrent Users on Your Server with SSH  The New Stack

You Can Install Popular Archive Manger WinRAR on Linux  How-To Geek

System76 has been developing the Rust-based COSMIC desktop for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution but its usage won't be artificially limited to that in-house distro. Among other distributions that have been looking toward packaging it, interest is currently being evaluated in creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) for the COSMIC desktop environment...

Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered  Phoronix

The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop installer has rolled out accessibility options built into the initial GUI for helping enable additional features...

GNOME 45.4 Released with Bug Fixes for GNOME Shell, Tweaks, Music, and Maps  9to5Linux

GNOME 45.4 Released with Bug Fixes for GNOME Shell, Tweaks, Music, and Maps  9to5Linux

While recent graphics cards support GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding, for those still relying on dav1d for CPU-based AV1 decode there is now version 1.4 "Road Runner" available that adds support for LoongArch and RISC-V architectures while continuing to further enhance the performance of this open-source AV1 decoder on x86_64 Intel/AMD processors too...