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Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Mouse/Keyboard Configuration, Enhances Sway IPC Compatibility

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 18:44
Miracle-WM is the Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir project with a focus on tiling and inspired by Sway/i3. Miracle-WM 0.7 is now available for advancing this Mir-powered Wayland experience with additional functionality now in place...

Fedora 44 Change Proposal Aims To Ensure A Nice Wine/Proton + NTSYNC Experience

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 18:34
A change proposal filed for next year's Fedora 44 release wants to aim for a nice experience when running Wine or the Proton variants supporting the Linux kernel's NTSYNC driver for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives...

Microsoft Building Out Its "OS Guard" Functionality For Azure Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 18:21
A new feature Microsoft has been working on for its Azure Linux operating system is OS Guard as a container-host platform that enforces immutability, code integrity, mandatory access control, and other features. Microsoft quietly revealed more about OS Guard last month and yesterday's release of Azure Linux 3.0.20250822 builds out more of the OS Guard functionality...

Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 18:08
Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base...

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2025.3 With More GenAI Enhancements & Arc Pro B-Series Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 17:55
On the same day as beginning to ship the Intel Arc Pro B50 ~$349 USD workstation graphics card, Intel also shipped OpenVINO 2025.3 as the newest feature release for this open-source AI toolkit...

Why I Use LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE Instead of MS Office

Tecmint - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 13:43
The post Why I Use LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE Instead of MS Office first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As someone who has been using Linux for more than 12 years, I’ve often come across the same question: “Can

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