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GNOME's longtime document viewer, Evince, was recently forked as GNOME Papers and saw its first release a few weeks back. This new GNOME document viewer has been ported from GTK3 to GTK4 and also brings an improved user interface and other refinements...

Apple compiler engineers have contributed Apple M4 CPU support to the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler via the new -mcpu=apple-m4 target. Interestingly the Apple M4 is exposed as an ARMv8.7 derived design...

KDE Plasma 6.1 is preparing for release next week on 18 June. KDE developers this week have thus been very busy with last minute finishing touches to this updated desktop while also already beginning feature work on Plasma 6.2...

New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord  BleepingComputer

Download YouTube Videos in Linux Command Line Using youtube-dl  It's FOSS

Adélie Linux is an Intriguing Independent Distribution  It's FOSS News

Wine 9.11 is now available as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms. With Wine 9.11 we are now roughly at the half-way point before Wine's typical feature freeze and release candidate start that typically begins around early December and this cycle will lead up to the Wine 10.0 stable release in early 2025...

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has been working with various KDE designers and developers to establish a new set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)...

LibreOffice 24.8 is now available in beta form for those wanting to test this open-source, cross-platform office suite alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office...

Ubuntu’s App Center Now Finally Supports Installation of Local DEB Packages  9to5Linux

Ubuntu's App Center Now Finally Supports Installation of Local DEB Packages  9to5Linux

These Linux Tools Increased My Command-Line Productivity: Here's How  How-To Geek

DeepComputing built the first RISC-V laptop designed to run Ubuntu Linux  TechSpot

Linux 6.11 Bringing "Hardware Replay" Feature For Intel Graphics Debugging  Phoronix

The main set of drm-intel-gt-next patches aiming for the Linux 6.11 kernel were submitted this week to DRM-Next. Most notable with this feature update for the next kernel version is enabling a new hardware replay feature for better reproducing GPU hangs...

cuDNN Download: A Guide  Built In

Make your own USB storage device using embedded Linux  Adafruit Blog

Last month some of the Ubuntu 24.10 desktop plans were laid out such as NVIDIA Wayland by default, a new welcome wizard, and more. Canonical's Oliver Smith has posted an update today around some of the ongoing Ubuntu 24.10 desktop enhancements...

Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver "ANV" has reduced the driver start-up time by about half...

Intel Vulkan Driver Halves The Time Required For Startup  Phoronix