Fedora Linux 44 Beta Now Available with Installer, Toolchain, and Desktop Updates
Fedora Linux 44 Beta introduces the Plasma Login Manager for KDE editions and Budgie 10.10 with Wayland support for Budgie users.
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Fedora Linux 44 Beta introduces the Plasma Login Manager for KDE editions and Budgie 10.10 with Wayland support for Budgie users.
The Fedora Linux 44 Beta is now available for public testing! This release brings major updates across Fedora Workstation, KDE Plasma, Server, IoT, and Cloud editions. Highlights include a unified KDE setup, Anaconda installer network profile improvements, and automatic DTB selection for ARM devices. Under the hood, F44 introduces 99% reproducible package builds, GNU Toolchain updates, and the latest software packages like Go 1.26 and MariaDB 11.8. Help shape the final release by testing today.
The March 2026 Steam client update allows users to attach hardware specifications to reviews, introduces optional framerate data reporting, and provides several fixes.
The Fedora 44 Beta release is out today on schedule in working toward the official Fedora 44 release around mid-April...
Valve released a new Steam Client stable update with an option to provide anonymized framerate data, better suppor for Proton games on Linux, and more. Here's what's new!
FreeBSD 14.4 is out today as the latest update to the aging FreeBSD 14 series for those not yet ready to upgrade to FreeBSD 15 that debuted as stable last year...
Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren't taking this lightly and there is some hope that at least in Colorado open-source software could be excluded...
AlmaLinux users no longer have to juggle Nvidia workarounds: CUDA and GPU drivers are moving into the distroβs normal package workflow. The post AlmaLinux Gets CUDA Parity With Ubuntu, RHEL, and RLC appeared first on FOSS Force.
Kdenlive 25.12.3 arrives with workflow improvements, better shortcut handling, UI refinements, and multiple stability fixes for the open source video editor.
Ghostty 1.3 terminal emulator arrives with scrollback search, native scrollbars, command notifications, improved Unicode rendering, and more.
Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it's running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features...
Now available for Linux, Windows, and Mac.
Proxmox is an odd choice for a desktop operating system, but you can make it work.
With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories...
Python has a unique approach to static typing. Python programs can contain type annotations, and even access those annotations at run time, but the annotations aren't evaluated by default. Instead, it is up to external programs to ascribe meaning to those annotations. The annotations themselves can be arbitrary Python expressions, but in practice usually involve using helpers from the built-in typing module, the meanings of which external type-checkers mostly agree upon. Yet the type system implicitly defined by the typing module and common type-checkers is insufficiently powerful to model all of the kinds of dynamic metaprogramming found in real-world Python programs. PEP 827 ("Type Manipulation") aims to add additional capabilities to Python's type system to fix this, but discussion of the PEP has been of mixed sentiment.