Open-source News

For those thinking about what open-source non-linear video editor to try out this holiday season for any videos, OpenShot 3.0 was officially released today as a big step forward for that project...

OpenShot 3.0 Open-Source Video Editor Released with More Than 1000 Improvements  9to5Linux

How to Geolocate IP Addresses on Linux Using geoiplookup  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Meson build system continues enjoying terrific developer adoption and that's even prior to declaring a "1.0" version. However, that's about to change with Meson 1.0-rc1 having now been issued for testing...

The 8 Best Linux Distributions That Crushed It in 2022  MUO - MakeUseOf

8 Best Linux Smart TVs  Hindustan Times

How to Update Flatpak Packages in Linux  It's FOSS

Back in October was the surprising move of Google deprecating JPEG-XL support in their Chrome/Chromium web browser. Google engineers argued there wasn't enough interesti n JPEG-XL and not sufficient enough benefits over existing formats. Their plan was to remove the JPEG-XL support in Chrome 110 and indeed that has now happened...

Google Chrome/Chromium Goes Ahead In Removing JPEG-XL Support  Phoronix

Following the recent developer talk of looking to drop SLOB from the Linux kernel, this simple allocator is being deprecated come Linux 6.2...

SLOB Allocator Being Deprecated With Linux 6.2  Phoronix

Windows 7 and 8.1 support ends next month  Ghacks

KDE Frameworks 5.101 Released with Plasma Wayland and Multi-Monitor Improvements  9to5Linux

The Tactician's Bundle is a great deal with Gears Tactics, Mechanicus, Hard West & more  GamingOnLinux

Today marks the release of KDE Frameworks 5.101, which is notable in that this is the point that feature development on KDE Frameworks 5 is now effectively over. The focus now turns to KDE Frameworks 6...

Steam Deck Client Beta fixes up New Big Picture Mode overlay sizing  GamingOnLinux

The long-awaited Godot 4 open-source game engine release is getting closer... The developers have already begun drafting plans past Godot 4.0 and they have now moved to weekly development snapshots as this much anticipated release nears...

Godot 4.0 Beta 8 Gets WebXR Fully Working, X11 Support Now Loaded Dynamically  Phoronix

The belated Mesa 22.2.5 is now available as the last planned point release to the Mesa 22.2 series...

Mesa 22.2.5 Released To End Out The Series  Phoronix