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Firefox 134 Enters Beta, Promises Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux  9to5Linux

Beyond Upstream First: The Linux Kernel Contribution Maturity Model  The New Stack

Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0  Phoronix

With GIMP 3.0-RC1 out for testing since earlier this month, the hope is that GIMP 3.0 stable will in fact ship in time for the release of Ubuntu 25.04 next April. The current GIMP 3.0 release candidate is working its way to Debian Unstable and in turn soon should be available via the Ubuntu 25.04 archive...

The I3C subsystem updates were submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel on Monday and include support for another I3C HCI controller used on AMD systems...

AMD I3C Controller ACPI Support Added To DesignWare Driver In Linux 6.13  Phoronix

This Is Why I Switched to Xfce for Linux Mint on My Older Laptop  How-To Geek

TuxCare Endless Lifecycle Support for End-of-Life Linux Now Available through cloudimg  EIN News

KDE Plasma 6.2.4 Re-Enables HDR Mode for Users on NVIDIA 565 and Linux 6.11  9to5Linux

Dev of Proton Sarek for older GPUs has forked DXVK to backport game settings and improve compatibility  GamingOnLinux

Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel...

In between managing all of the pull requests being submitted during this two week long merge window for the Linux 6.13 kernel, Linus Torvalds has merged some of his own code this cycle...

Linus Torvalds Improves Futex Code To Improve User-Space Accesses  Phoronix

PlaytronOS Alpha 2 brings expanded NVIDIA support, more handheld PC support and much more  GamingOnLinux

The RDMA subsystem updates were sent out last Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel cycle. Most notable with the RDMA updates is the NVIDIA Mellanox "MLX5" network driver introducing a new Data Direct Placement (DDP) feature to further help with performance...

Linux 6.13 RDMA Changes Headlined By NVIDIA's New Data Placement Ordering Feature  Phoronix

Steam Client Beta fixes up NVIDIA bugs on Linux with Game Recording and Remote Play  GamingOnLinux

AI-Powered Warp Terminal Does Away With Login Requirement!  It's FOSS News

SUSE unveils major rebranding  Fudzilla

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Linux, as we know, is a kernel and not a complete operating system, and it ships with a variety of

The post Understanding Ubuntu’s Event-Driven System Architecture first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.