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AlmaLinux Picking Up glibc Patch Ahead Of RHEL To Rescue VFX Houdini Users

Phoronix - Fri, 07/26/2024 - 18:15
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very popular with the VFX crowd, those relying on the SideFX Houdini 3D animation software are running into a bit of a pickle if trying to use RHEL 9.4. There's a glibc bug causing random crashes for Houdini that Red Hat has been slow to pickup but is now going to be shipped by AlmaLinux early to satisfy VFX users...

KDE Human Interface Guidelines Being Further Refined & Polished

Phoronix - Fri, 07/26/2024 - 17:56
Back in early June the KDE Human Interface Guidelines "HIG" were updated. These design principles for KDE software were updated to modern standards, adapt to the latest Qt toolkit behavior, and also making it more inviting to new contributors. Since then the KDE HIG has continued to see more refinements...

VirtualBox 7.1 Beta Released With Modernized GUI, Wayland Support For Clipboard Sharing

Phoronix - Fri, 07/26/2024 - 03:53
Oracle today released the first public beta of their VirtualBox 7.1 virtualization software...

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