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Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1 and 20.04 OTA-11 Bring VoLTE Expansion
UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1 and OTA-11 with key fixes for notifications, media scanning, Wi-Fi hotspot issues, and security.
Raspberry Pi 5 1GB Launched, Other Models See Price Hikes
A budget version of the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer with 1GB RAM and costing $45 has been announced. The new Raspberry Pi 5 1GB is an affordable option, but it’s not as low-cost as it could’ve been owing to the rocketing cost of memory across the tech industry driven, largely, by demand and competition from the increase in AI data centres. But its lower price comparative to other models in the range is, arguably, never more important. Why? Because, alas, the cost of most other Pi models has risen due to the volatile (heh) memory market with price increase […]
Raspberry Pi 5 Single-Board Computer Now Available with 1GB RAM for $45 USD
Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer is now available with 1GB RAM for $45 USD with quad-core 2.4GHz Arm Cortex-A76 processor, dual-band Wi-Fi and PCI Express port.
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2 Debuts AI Grammar Checks, Custom Hotkeys
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2 adds AI-powered grammar and spell checks, customizable hotkeys, macro recording, enhanced PDF redaction, and improved form creation tools.
Linux Boot Management with efibootmgr
Most systems these days use the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). This is an interface between the hardware on a PC and the Operating System (OS). When the hardware begins, there is firmware that is loaded and starts initializing the hardware. Once the UEFI has initialized the hardware, it then loads the boot manager, and then loads the OS through the boot manager. Examples of Boot Managers are GRUB, rEFInd, Limine and others. The Boot Manager is the same as a Bootloader. There... https://www.linux.org/threads/linux-boot-management-with-efibootmgr.57749/
Btrfs In Linux 6.19 Adds Experimental Features, Continues Preparations For FSCRYPT
SUSE engineer David Sterba submitted the Btrfs pull request for Linux 6.19 on Friday, ahead of the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release that took place on Sunday. This copy-on-write file-system continues seeing some enticing feature work and other improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel...
These versions of KDE Connect are vulnerable to exploit
The developers released a security advisory stating
GNU Linux-Libre 6.18 Kernel Released for Software Freedom Lovers
GNU Linux-libre 6.18 kernel is now available for download. This release is based on Linux kernel 6.18 and it’s targeted at those who seek 100% freedom for their personal computers.
Fedora 44 Granted Approval For A Nicer NTSYNC Experience For Wine & Steam Play
Fedora stakeholders have been eyeing a nicer experience for NTSYNC usage with Wine and Steam Play by being able to have the NTSYNC kernel module load when it's likely to be used. That approval has now been granted by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) for the Fedora 44 release...
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind9.18, cups, gimp, ipa, kernel, libssh, mingw-expat, openssl, pcs, sssd, tigervnc, and valkey), Debian (gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect, mistral-dashboard, pagure, python-mistralclient, pytorch, qtbase-opensource-src, sogo, tryton-server, and unbound), Fedora (cef, drupal7, glib2, linux-firmware, migrate, pack, pgadmin4, rnp, and unbound), Slackware (libxslt), SUSE (cpp-httplib, curl, glib2, grub2, kernel, libcoap-devel, libcryptopp, libwireshark19, postgresql15, and postgresql17), and Ubuntu (edk2).
Fwupd 2.0.18 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for Lenovo Legion Go 2
Fwupd 2.0.18 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for Lenovo Legion Go 2, HP Portable USB-C 4K HDMI hub, and Synaptics HapticsPad.
Fwupd 2.0.18 Brings Reboot Notifications, Faster Firmware Searches
Fwupd 2.0.18 adds reboot prompts, major speed improvements for firmware searches, and support for new HP, Lenovo, and Synaptics hardware.
Three stable kernels for Monday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.10, 6.12.60, and 6.6.118 stable kernels. As usual, each contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.
AMD GPU Managed Memory Support Merged For The GCC 16 Compiler
When it comes to AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compiler support much of the emphasis is on the LLVM/Clang compiler stack with their official AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end as well as having the AOMP downstream compiler fork and the like. But the GNU Compiler Collection "GCC" does continue allow targeting AMD GPU targeting with its "AMDGCN" back-end and using the likes of the OpenMP API. It's not too often seeing new AMD GPU activity there for GCC but merged today is now support for managed memory...