Open-source News

Darktable 4.6.1 Released with Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Linux: Limit Concurrent Users on Your Server with SSH  The New Stack

You Can Install Popular Archive Manger WinRAR on Linux  How-To Geek

System76 has been developing the Rust-based COSMIC desktop for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution but its usage won't be artificially limited to that in-house distro. Among other distributions that have been looking toward packaging it, interest is currently being evaluated in creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) for the COSMIC desktop environment...

Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered  Phoronix

The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop installer has rolled out accessibility options built into the initial GUI for helping enable additional features...

GNOME 45.4 Released with Bug Fixes for GNOME Shell, Tweaks, Music, and Maps  9to5Linux

GNOME 45.4 Released with Bug Fixes for GNOME Shell, Tweaks, Music, and Maps  9to5Linux

While recent graphics cards support GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding, for those still relying on dav1d for CPU-based AV1 decode there is now version 1.4 "Road Runner" available that adds support for LoongArch and RISC-V architectures while continuing to further enhance the performance of this open-source AV1 decoder on x86_64 Intel/AMD processors too...

There is just two weeks to go until the much-anticipated KDE 6 Mega-Release that includes KDE Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6, and the updated KDE Gear apps. KDE developers continue fixing bugs as well as already working on KDE Plasma 6.1 features...

Intel on Friday released Open Image Denoise 2.2 as the newest version of this open-source denoising library used by Blender and other software...

Intel's OIDn 2.2 Released With Meteor Lake GPU Support, Better CPU Performance  Phoronix

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Modifies Pricing Model for Cloud Deployments  InfoQ.com

Slimbook Hero gaming laptop combines Linux Manjaro with 140W GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU  Notebookcheck.net

Modder gets a version of Linux running on the Famicom  GoNintendo

Modder gets a version of Linux running on the Famicom  GoNintendo

A merge request was opened this week for plumbing fractional scaling support for XWayland clients running on the GNOME Mutter compositor...

Modded NES runs Linux-like OS in bold DIY achievement  My Nintendo News

Steam Deck Revolutionizes Portable DJing: A Linux-Based Setup Redefines Music Mixing  BNN Breaking

Longtime Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner with Intel-owned Linutronix has been spending much time over the past several months reworking the Linux kernel's x86 CPU topology evaluation code. This is to clean-up a mess of aging kernel code as well as some areas of the code being incorrect in today's era of hybrid Intel Core processors with a mix of P / E cores with the E cores lacking SMT/HT and thus throwing off prior kernel assumptions. With the code now queued up in a TIP branch today, it looks like that CPU topology rework could be good to go with Linux 6.9...