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Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 18:54
While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds. But -- at long last -- that might finally change soon...

Qt Creator 12 Beta Brings Integrated Compiler Explorer

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 18:45
Following this week's release of Qt 6.6, the Qt Creator 12 beta has been released for this Qt and C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE)...

openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Released For Lightweight Environments & Containers

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 18:32
OpenSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 is now available as the latest community version of SUSE Linux's Enterprise Micro. openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 is a great choice for a lightweight Linux OS particularly for VMs and containers...

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 07:45
Hours after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, Canonical has pulled the ISOs and is re-spinning them after user-submitted translations for the Ubuntu installer turned out to contain hate speech...

Intel Lands A Few Noteworthy Improvements Today Into The GCC 14 Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 07:35
It was a busy day for the GCC 14 (GNU Compiler Collection) development with Intel landing three separate noteworthy contributions just today for this next major open-source compiler release...

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