Under my bed is a giant box of CDs that I’ve been meaning to rip for years. Some aren’t on Spotify, some are, but not the right version and one is by an artist I’m half convinced is a folk memory or the Mandela effect. Laser is a new GTK4/libadwatia CD ripping application for Linux that’s coaxed me into getting on with the job. CD sales in the UK are booming as younger buyers put off by the gentrified price of vinyl turn to cheaper physical formats. Perhaps that’s why, a decade after optical drives disappeared from laptops, Linux suddenly […]
As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel...
GNU Project founder Richard Stallman and developer Jacob Bachmeyer argue that GitHub’s licensing guidance, nonfree JavaScript, AI services, and centralized workflows undermine software freedom. The post What’s Wrong with GitHub? appeared first on FOSS Force.
Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API...
The latest update to Calibre, the open-source ebook manager, adds an AI-powered writing game. Calibre v9.15’s new “Create Your Own Adventure” mode, per the release notes, lets you build a fictional world and hand control of it to an AI who will manage it in real time based on your responses. The changelog notes with, with understatement, that it is a little different” from Calibre’s usual features, noting it began as a way for developers to test AI backends in the tool, before developing into “something fun to use”. The feature is, like all AI features in Calibre, completely optional […]
The Git source-code management system is at the core of development processes worldwide, so changes, especially incompatible changes, are of great interest to the developers involved. The Git 2.56 release, which can be expected around the end of September, is currently available in release-candidate form. It is not the most earth-shaking of releases, but the one that follows, which might be the long-awaited Git 3.0, may well be.
Version 5.6 of the Systemtap tracing tool has been released. BPF LSM hooks and XDP packet-processing probes for the --bpf runtime, BTF-based kernel.tracepoint probes, statement execution tracing, a new @enumname() operator, richer runtime error context, dyninst hardware watchpoints, modern systemd service templates, and broad Linux 7.2 runtime/tapset compatibility work. Multithreaded speedups throughout.
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