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More than four decades after Richard Stallman began GNU Emacs, version 31.1 makes the classic editor friendlier for everyday Linux users. The post GNU Emacs 31.1: Approaching Fifty and Still Improving appeared first on FOSS Force.
Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, has now entered feature freeze. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along with the rest of the package set, ahead of the final, stable Ubuntu 26.10 release in October. “Ideally, you should all now be focusing on bug fixing rather than getting new features into the release”, said Paride Legovini, engineer at Canonical, in a post on the Ubuntu developer mailing list – albeit a few days after the fact. However, the final makeup of Ubuntu 26.10 – which is set to offer GNOME 51, more Rust […]
Supporting Linux Talent Development in Japan with More Than 500,000 Learners and Over 20,000 LPI Exam Vouchers Sold in Five Years Ping-t Inc. (https://mondai.ping-t.com/g) is one of Japan’s leading online learning platforms specializing in IT certification training. The platform has ... Read more The post Supporting Linux Talent Development in Japan with Ping-t: Reaching More Than 500,000 Learners appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
The merge window is still open, but faster filesystems, a smarter scheduler, and real-time latency fixes are already in.
A new nonprofit is being setup that would house all that money, and Hyprland is the first external project to benefit.
The HID subsystem updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. Among other hardware additions, the 2026 Valve Steam Controller is seeing initial kernel driver support...
China has ordered several government agencies to drop a Chinese-developed version of Windows 10 in favor of either KylinOS or UOS.
Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” is now available with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.1, ARM64 support, reproducible builds, and a new backup tool.
Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux and powered by Linux kernel 7.1 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment.
A major update to open-vm-tools, a package that integrates Linux virtual machines with VMware hypervisors, is rolling out to users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. “Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more recent hypervisors”, Canonical’s Lena Voytek explained in a backport request. It’s a full backport from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to support platform enablement to benefit those running 24.04 LTS. The open-vm-tool package goes from v12.3.5 to v3.0.10 (the same version in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS). VMware’s open-vm-tools package enables clock sync with the hypervisor host, ‘graceful’ power management for clean shutdowns, vSphere API, shared folder support, relays […]
A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency...
For years the debate was “will virtual machines be replaced by containers?” Today the answer seems to be a different one, because in the meantime the question itself has changed: does the replacement even make sense, if the two technologies ... Read more The post VMs and Containers: Rivalry or Convergence? appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Ardour 9.8 DAW is out with initial keys and scales support, improved recording recovery after crashes, clip recording enhancements, and more.
Practical quantum computers have been ten years away for the last several decades. Now, however, it's beginning to look as though they will be possible in just a few years. Recent research with obfuscated results demonstrated much lower memory requirements to factor ECDSA keys on a quantum computer, with work by other researchers in the open more than halving memory use compared to the state of the art in 2023. At the same time, computer manufacturers are boasting quantum processors that retain viable superpositions over longer periods. Given how slowly software updates filter out to stable systems, it's worth looking at what configuration changes and protocol updates are needed to be safe from quantum computers now.
VKD3D 2.1 open-source 3D library is out with expanded HLSL support, new shader reflection capabilities, SPIR-V improvements, and more.
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