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Wayland Protocols 1.41 Released With Color Management Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 18:54
Wayland Protocols 1.41 is shipping today with the color management protocol added for enabling high dynamic range (HDR) support on the Wayland-powered Linux desktop...

How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22

Tecmint - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 13:29
The post How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux Mint is a widely used and beginner-friendly operating system known for its simplicity, stability, and ease of use. By

The post How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.14-rc3 Released With Faux Bus & Various Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 06:32
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc3 as the newest weekly release candidate for Linux 6.14 that will debuting as stable before the end of March...

New "Faux Bus" API Merged For Linux 6.14 - Including Both Rust & C Bindings

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 05:10
A few weeks back the Linux kernel "Faux Bus" was proposed by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a "fake" bus solution for simple devices. Today ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc3 tagging, the faux bus code was merged and comes at the same time both with C and Rust language bindings...

Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 23:00
For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. An independent user/developer has taken it into his own hands and has managed to get Firefox using the GTK4 toolkit up and running on Linux...

GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More

Phoronix - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 20:07
The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March...

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