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KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Merged as part of last week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver fixes for Linux 6.12-rc2 are a few performance tuning updates for Intel Xe2 graphics to benefit the recently released Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops...

A Few Intel Xe2 Graphics Tuning Updates Found In Linux 6.12-rc2  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice  The Register

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice  The Register

While there is the open-source MoltenVK project that implements the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers on iOS/macOS, the 3D graphics consulting firm LunarG is exploring the possibility of implementing Vulkan to Metal translation using Mesa...

Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit...

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Linux is known for its vast set of powerful command-line tools that allow users to interact efficiently with the system.

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Project #1: Cybersecurity HomeLab: Part 3 | by Mr.E | Oct, 2024  Medium

While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs, writing our first funding proposal that will now enable the Foundation to apply for more grants, vastly improving our financial operations, and implementing a break-even budget to preserve our financial reserves." It turns out that wasn't enough. The GNOME Foundation today announced some new cost-cutting measures for the project overseeing the open-source GNOME desktop...

Halcyon unveils Linux-focused anti-ransomware solution  SecurityBrief Australia

Halcyon unveils Linux-focused anti-ransomware solution  SecurityBrief Asia

The digital transformation opportunity has never been greater, especially with cloud now being generally embraced as an enabler. The generative AI (gen AI) boom has further sharpened the focus on modernisation as enterprises assess how they can take advantage. They want a cloud environment that offers choice, flexibility and independence to more safely experiment with, and adopt, new technologies.We set out to discover how organisations are approaching their cloud strategy into 2025, their appetite for AI, and the barriers to adoption of emerging innovations. A survey of 609 enterprise IT mana

OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...

FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well as some new JIT optimizations...

FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.12 Prepped for Superior Scheduling, Real Time Ops  The New Stack

Need to manage Linux passwords on the command line? No GUI, no problem!  ZDNet

Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation...

Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system...