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APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More

Phoronix - Sat, 04/13/2024 - 08:35
APT as the packaging tool built around Debian Linux is embarking on some big upgrades with the APT 2.9 development series to then roll-out as APT 3.0. There's big improvements to the command-line user interface with the new APT and it's certainly looking nice from my initial Friday night encounter...

XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features

Phoronix - Sat, 04/13/2024 - 01:39
The XWayland 23.2 series was introduced last August while now release preparations have begun for releasing XWayland 24.1 as the next feature release for this X.Org Server derived code for allowing X11 clients (apps / games) to work within the confines of Wayland environments...

KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 04/12/2024 - 23:59
KDE Frameworks 6.1 is out today as the first monthly update since the release of KDE Frameworks 6.0 alongside KDE Plasma 6.0...

Beyond the core - The Register

Google News - Fri, 04/12/2024 - 23:02
Beyond the core  The Register

Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios

Phoronix - Fri, 04/12/2024 - 22:38
A patch to the Linux kernel's SLUB allocator has been queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.10 merge window to help reduce memory consumption in extreme scenarios...

Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation

Phoronix - Fri, 04/12/2024 - 22:23
David Rheinsberg has released Dbus-Broker 36 as the newest version of this speedy, drop-in DBus implementation for Linux systems...

LPython 0.21 Released For Alpha-Stage Python AOT Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 04/12/2024 - 20:59
As the first new release since last September, LPython 0.21 has been released for this alpha-stage Python ahead-of-time compiler written in C++. LPython remains focused on providing "the best possible performance" especially for numerical use-cases, cross-platform compatibility, and hopes to be able to eventually transform Python code over to C++ and Fortran or other languages...

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