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OBS Studio 33 entered public beta testing today with support for newest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs for NVIDIA Audio Effects and Video Effects, a check for encoders being missing when loading a profile, and more.
AlmaLinux's new certification platform aims to make finding out how well your hardware and software will work with AlmaLinux as easy as looking at its certification catalog. The post AlmaLinux’s New Beefed-Up Hardware and Software Certification appeared first on FOSS Force.
A new community of KDE wants the project to adopt a strict no-AI policy for KDE Plasma.
Shelly 3.1.5 improves Arch Linux package management with optional Atoll AUR browsing, build-and-install support, repo tools, and multiple compatibility fixes.
Nginx Proxy Manager 2.16 introduces a new web UI log viewer, per-path access lists, security fixes, networking improvements, and updated Certbot support.
Shelly 3.1.5 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with Atoll-powered AUR browser, a build-and-install command, and native tools for maintaining your own package repositories.
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches...
Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.
The Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) is investing nearly €1.3 million in KDE through 2027. At Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria, Nate Graham and Kevin Ottens, two of the contributors who helped bring in the investment, explained how the funding was secured, provided tips on how projects should approach organizations like STA, and talked about how that money will be improving KDE for everyone. In addition to keeping the community informed about the work, the pair hoped to pass on what they have learned to encourage others to help raise funds for development as well.
A revived Banshee music player is now available on the Snap store – purely as an act of software preservation. The snap allows Banshee 2.6.2, the final release made in 2014, to run on modern Linux desktops. It even includes ‘compatibility fixes and restores selected online services’, though the listing states not all ‘historical’ features or services may work. Containerised packaging formats like Snap are ideal for “time capsule” type efforts, since ancient dependencies can be bundled inside, thereby not affecting the host system. But don’t be fooled by the nostalgia; it is a real, working music player: point it […]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.8 and 6.18.54 stable kernels. Each contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
Johannes Schindelin has posted a detailed summary of the discussions held at the 2026 Git Contributors' Summit. Topics covered include Git 3.0, security process, documentation, the pluggable object database, use of LLMs, and more.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, perl-DBI:1.641, and unbound), Debian (jq, libreoffice, openssl, and redis), Fedora (389-ds-base, bcm283x-firmware, cockpit, flatpak-builder, mingw-gdk-pixbuf, openssl3, pcs, rust-cryptoki, squid, uboot-tools, and webkitgtk), Mageia (fuse3, perl-Net-DNS, python-gitpython, python-webob, thunderbird, thunderbird-l10n, and unbound), Oracle (postgresql:12, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and skopeo), Slackware (php), SUSE (alloy, amazon-ssm-agent, ant, apptainer, chromium, corosync, cyrus-imapd, distribution, exiv2, ffmpeg-7, freeipmi, gdb, gnome-remote-desktop, google-osconfig-agent, govulncheck-vulndb, gvfs, hplip, ImageMagick, imagemagick, java-11-openjdk, jsoup, re2j, kernel, keybase-client, libsoup, libx11, libxrender, mcphost, memcached, opensc, perl-DBI, python-gitpython, python-weasyprint, rabbitmq-server, ruby3.4, util-linux, and zstd-jni), and Ubuntu (curl, expat, gdal, libass, libpcap, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-7.
Vicharak's Axon-Lite packs a Rockchip RK3576, a 6 TOPS NPU and swappable modules into a tiny SBC.
GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more...
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