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GIMP 3.2-RC2 is out today as what could be the last release candidate of GIMP 3.2 before its stable release. This leading open-source image editor/creation alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop continues becoming much more refined and polished in the GIMP 3 series...

Kodi 22.3 arrives with two big fixes for Linux and Xbox  How-To Geek

Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainline kernel, he raised issue over the lack of review/action to Linus Torvalds and the mailing lists. In particular, seeking more guidance for how new LSMs should be introduced and raised the possibility of taking the issue to the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB)...

Longtime Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede who worked on many Intel/AMD laptop enhancements over the years left Red Hat and ended up joining Qualcomm. Now it turns out one of his projects at Qualcomm is enhancing the Fedora Linux support for running nicely out-of-the-box on Snapdragon-powered Windows on ARM laptops...

Fedora 44 Could Work Nicely "Out Of The Box" On Snapdragon-Powered Windows ARM Laptops  Phoronix

Oracle Releases bpftune 0.4-1: eBPF Tool for Automated Linux Kernel Tuning  WebProNews

Linux Kernel Fast-Tracks DRM Updates with Rust and NPU Support Post-6.19  WebProNews

Linux Kernel 6.19: EXT4 Upgrades, PCIe Encryption, and Hardware Support  WebProNews

Back in November Flatpak 1.17 released with support for sideloading from OCI images and other improvements in working toward the Flatpak 1.18 stable release. Out today is Flatpak 1.17.1 and was then followed quickly by Flatpak 1.17.2 to fix a mistake in the release artifacts...

New Jolla, Sailfish 5, offer break from iOS-Android monopoly  theregister.com

The latest Pop!_OS 24.04 update has this longtime Linux user more excited than ever  ZDNET

The latest Pop!_OS 24.04 update has this long-time Linux user more excited than ever  ZDNET

System76 Launches Pop!_OS Linux Distro To Much Fanfare, Check It Out  HotHardware

Joseph Zikusooka's Jambula OS Takes a Text-Based Approach to Raspberry Pi 5 Server Setup  Hackster.io

Linux 6.19 Features: LUO, PCIe Link Encryption, ASUS Armoury, DRM Color Pipeline API & More  Phoronix

With Linux 6.19-rc1 released, the merge window for Linux 6.19 has now concluded. Here is a summary of the interesting Linux 6.19 new features and changes with this kernel version.

Back in July 2024, Ampere Computing announced AmpereOne M on their road-map for Q4'2024 to provide AmpereOne with 12 channel DDR5 memory compared to eight memory channels with the original AmpereOne processors. Then this past May the AmpereOne M SKUs were announced while Ampere Computing stated these "M" processors had been shipping since Q4 of last year. Since then we haven't seen or heard anything more about AmpereOne M nor the AmpereOne MX processors with up to 256 cores. Since then, the acquisition of Ampere Computing by SoftBank also was completed that made us wonder more about impacts to the roadmap and what hardware may or may not make it out to market. Well, today, we are finally seeing AmpereOne M availability in the public cloud with the new Oracle Cloud A4 instances...

Ubuntu Studio could get a new default visual design in 2026  How-To Geek

GNOME bans AI-generated extensions  The Verge

Following the Color Management protocol introduced in Wayland Protocols 1.41, out today is Wayland Protocols 1.47 with various revisions to that color management and HDR support...