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It's FOSS -114 minutes ago

Kitty 0.50 Picks Up Where You Left Off After a System Restart 📋

The release also adds docked windows, three new cursor trail shaders, and touchscreen support on Wayland. 📋

How-to Geek 1 hour ago

Linux finally gets one of Microsoft's most useful Windows utilities 📋

Sysinternals just went cross-platform. 📋

Linuxiac 1 hour ago

GStreamer 1.28.9 Multimedia Framework Released with Security and Playback Fixes 📋

GStreamer 1.28.9 fixes security vulnerabilities, playback crashes, streaming issues, and hardware acceleration problems. 📋

LWN.net 1 hour ago

Security updates for Friday 📋

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cockpit-files, container-tools:rhel8, delve, gcc-toolset-12-binutils, gimp:2.8, glibc, go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, libfastjson, mariadb:10.3, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, mysql:8.0, php:8.0, pki-core:10.6 and pki-deps:10.6, squid:4, tang, tesseract, thunderbird, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), Debian (chromium, ntfs-3g, puppet-agent, and trapperkeeper-authorization-clojure), Fedora (freerdp, goose, gpsd, hatch, perl-HTTP-Headers-ActionPack, perl-MIME-tools, perl-Plack, perl-Starman, proftpd, python-mistune, ruby-build, rust-crypto-bigint, rust-ctutils, rust-elliptic-curve, rust-num-bigint, rust-num-bigint0.4, rust-num-modular, rust-num-modular0.6, rust-num-prime, rust-zmij, rust-zstd, rust-zstd-safe, rust-zstd-safe7, rust-zstd-sys, rust-zstd0.13, scribus, sofia-sip, tailscale, tor, and wordpress), Oracle (cockpit-files, delve, firefox, gimp:2.8, kernel, and osbuild-composer), Red Hat (delve, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, ignition, opente 📋

Linuxiac 1 hour ago

Chimera Linux Gets Proprietary NVIDIA Drivers Working on musl 📋

Chimera Linux advances proprietary NVIDIA driver compatibility with its musl-based system, testing NVIDIA 580 and 620 drivers. 📋

How-to Geek 2 hours ago

KDE turns 30: Is Plasma the Linux desktop for people who hate GNOME? 📋

GNOME and I have history. KDE might change that. 📋

It's FOSS 5 hours ago

Passbolt is an Open Source Password Manager Built Specially For Teams 📋

Passbolt offers both a free self-hosted edition and a managed cloud version of its team focused password management solution. 📋

Phoronix 5 hours ago

Arch Linux vs. CachyOS vs. Omarchy 4.5 Performance Benchmarks 📋

With CachyOS recently having rolled out its Linux 7.3 based kernel and various other improvements plus with Omarchy 4.5 having been released this week, this article provides a look at how CachyOS and Omarchy are competing on the performance front relative to upstream Arch Linux. 📋

Linuxiac 6 hours ago

Bottles 67.6 Improves Wine Compatibility and Bottle Management 📋

Bottles 67.6 adds directory moves, per-bottle notes, DPI scaling options, and fixes for Battle.net, Wine, and external storage. 📋

Phoronix 6 hours ago

Linux x86 32-bit Patches Clean Old Kernel Code After Recently Removing Vintage CPUs 📋

With the Linux kernek having phased out i486 CPU support and dropping old AMD Elan SoC code along with removing other obsolete and stagnate 32-bit x86 hardware support, some x86 32-bit clean-ups are proceeding along with being able to make the kernel depend unconditionally now on some features... 📋

Foss Force 6 hours ago

Six German States Choose Nextcloud for a Sovereign School Cloud 📋

A shared cloud initiative aims to keep school data in Germany while teaching digital skills -- not dependence on individual technology providers. The post Six German States Choose Nextcloud for a Sovereign School Cloud appeared first on FOSS Force. 📋

Phoronix 7 hours ago

FEX Awaits The Linux Kernel To Align With Windows & macOS On ARM Register Usage 📋

FEX 2611 is out for running Linux (and Wine) x86/x86_64 games/applications on AArch64 Linux. FEX 2611 brings JIT improvements while also waiting for the Linux kernel to align with the AArch64 specification and Windows on ARM and macOS Apple Silicon behavior around a particular register's usage... 📋

Linuxiac 7 hours ago

Calibre 9.18 E-Book Manager Introduces KOReader Sync, OPDS 2.0 Support 📋

Calibre 9.18 introduces EPUB accessibility tools, KOReader reading progress sync, OPDS 2.0 support, and improvements to e-book management. 📋

Phoronix 9 hours ago

Ubuntu Moving Ahead With Plans For Splitting Up Linux-Firmware, HWE Option 📋

A few months back were discussions of a Linux firmware HWE package for Ubuntu to carry updated firmware blobs under the hardware enablement (HWE) umbrella. Plus also splitting up the monolithic linux-firmware package for easing of firmware updates. Those plans didn't materialize in time for the official Ubuntu 26.10 release but are now being pursued for Ubuntu 27.04 and may then be SRU'ed into Ubuntu 26.10 and potentially Ubuntu 26.04 LTS... 📋

Phoronix 9 hours ago

Linux Developers Look To Drop RT_GROUP_SCHED As It's "Broken Beyond Repair" 📋

Linux kernel developers are looking at dropping the RT_GROUP_SCHED feature that is used for group scheduling of real-time tasks using cgroups... 📋