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Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS upgrades, which were temporarily halted due to critical issues, are enabled. So the users can now upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04.LinuxToday
LMDE 5 reaches end-of-life, Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment to feature an improved default theme, addressing the aesthetic gap.LinuxToday
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LibreOffice 24.8.1 is here three weeks after the LibreOffice 24.8 release and addresses more pesky bugs and crashes.LinuxToday
The beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series is now released, promising numerous new features and improvements.LinuxToday
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs
As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts...
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The KDE Project released KDE Gear 24.08.1 as the first point release to the latest KDE Gear 24.08 software suite.LinuxToday
AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware
AMD today committed their GC 11.5.2 firmware to the upstream linux-firmware.git for the necessary firmware binary blobs needed for hardware initialization by their open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver with this newer RDNA3.5 variant...
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Security-focused Linux distro Kali 2024.3 rolls out with Qualcomm Snapdragon support, new security tools, and major package updates.LinuxToday
Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI
With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring...
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KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities
Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor...
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VirtualBox 7.1 debuts with groundbreaking features, including ARM support, improved UI, cloud VM management, Wayland support, and more.LinuxToday
Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9, an easy-to-use SD card preparation tool by Raspberry Pi, arrives with Qt6, platform crypto, and Linux AppImages.LinuxToday
A new SIG now helps server manufacturers certify that their hardware works as it should on AlmaLinux. Learn more.LinuxToday
AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming
AMD engineers continue work toward upstreaming their XDNA kernel driver for Linux in enabling the Ryzen AI NPU on open-source. The "v3" patches were posted on Wednesday but given the timing it looks like it will be missing out still on merging for the upcoming Linux 6.12 LTS cycle...
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Valve released a new stable Steam Client update that brings numerous improvements and some new functionality to enhance gaming experience.LinuxToday
EXT4 Extsize Hints Being Worked On As Step Toward Non-Torn/Atomic Writes
Ojaswin Mujoo with IBM has posted an initial set of "request for comments" patches implementing extsize hints for EXT4, similar to the hints being worked on for the XFS file-system. This is important work in ultimately striving toward handling non-torn / atomic writes within the EXT4 file-system...
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Ojaswin Mujoo with IBM has posted an initial set of 'request for comments' patches implementing extsize hints for EXT4, similar to the hints being worked on for the XFS file-systemwww.phoronix.com
Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components
The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-level, they are going a bit further down the stack now to develop forks of several APT components that power package management on Debian/Ub…
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