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Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.03 distribution is now available for download based on the Debian GNU/Linux 13.7 “Trixie” operating system and introducing new accessibility features.
Firefox 158 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with better PDF handling, New Tab improvements, and other changes.
Oxygen continues its comeback with Plasma 6.8, adding better accent color support, refreshed cursors, more icons, and visual fixes.
qBittorrent 5.2.4 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements, especially for the web-based user interface.
It took the project 1.5 years before settling on 'Nura' as its new identity.
Git 2.56 open-source distributed version control system is now available for download with new features, new options, and performance improvements.
The latest Git release brings a dedicated resolved-files staging mode, new maintenance commands, and substantial scalability improvements.
Version 2.56 of the Git distributed version-control system has been released. It has 748 non-merge commits since Git 2.55 was released back in June; those commits came from 104 developers, 39 of whom are first-time contributors. New features include a safer workflow for conflict resolution, smaller path-walk repacks, a new git history drop sub-command, and much more. LWN looked at Git 2.56 recently and the GitHub blog has a lengthy look at 2.56 as well.
4GB of RAM is more than enough.
Eric Turgeon has shown off a new desktop environment that would ship with custom components in GhostBSD.
As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls...
As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a typical presenter at Kernel Recipes. He is, however, a longtime Linux user, and works on free software for controlling magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. He was at the conference to talk about the C programming language, the specific problem of undefined behavior in C, and whether it can eventually be made into a memory-safe language.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, ipa, kernel, libxml2, perl-DBI, python-cryptography, thunderbird, and unbound), Debian (chromium, evolution-data-server, exim4, ghostscript, incus, lemonldap-ng, libheif, nodejs, php8.4, ruby-oj, swift, and vlc), Fedora (chromium, cinnamon, cinnamon-desktop, cinnamon-session, cinnamon-settings-daemon, ckermit, dnf5, forgejo, goose, gssntlmssp, libheif, libpcap, librsvg2, mingw-gstreamer1, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good, mingw-python3, mongo-c-driver, muffin, nemo, nemo-extensions, nextcloud, pgadmin4, postgresql16-postgis, postgresql17-postgis, postgresql18-postgis, rust-librsvg, rust-xml5ever, sipp, suricata, tesseract, and xreader), Mageia (erlang, gpsd, libreswan, python3 & python-pip, and udisks2), Oracle (abrt, buildah, cockpit-image-builder, corosync, ipa, kernel, libxml2, openexr, perl-DBI, perl-DBI:1.641, postgresql, thunderbird, unbound, and yelp), SUSE (38
SIMDjson is the open-source, high performance JSON parser that surprisingly began making use of AVX-512 to deliver big performance gains years ago. SIMDjson has continued further refining itself to deliver even greater speeds and out today is SIMDjson 5.0...
Flatpak 1.18.4 is out with fixes for six security flaws affecting sandbox escapes, file access, process signaling, and OCI authentication.
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