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Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 19:06
Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities...

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...

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