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With the Linux Vendor Firmware Service serving more than 135 million downloads for Linux users updating their system and device firmware, LVFS has been working to get more hardware vendors to contribute either engineering resources or directly contributing annual dues as sponsors. Framework Computer is now the first one to have executed an agreement under these new sponsorship efforts...
While there have been a number of Intel Linux engineers laid off over roughly the past year, other Linux kernel engineers opting to pursue employment opportunities elsewhere amid the ongoing challenges and restructuring at the company, and shifts in their open-source strategy, there's some good news as we work toward the 2025 holidays. Intel is currently hiring for two more experienced Linux kernel software engineers...
KDE developers have been busy ending out the month of November with a number of new features and fixes queued up for next year's Plasma 6.6 desktop release...
Niri 25.11 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust-written, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...
Mozilla is “rewiring” itself to put AI at the centre of everything: what it builds, why it builds it, and how it makes money. Going forward, every product in Mozilla’s portfolio, including Firefox, will need to “design their strategies” and “measure their success” by how much AI is added and, more worryingly for ‘public interest’ projects, how much cash its AI features generate. Target: 20% yearly growth in non-search revenue – around $25 million a year. Mozilla says this is necessary to save the web (and humanity) from big AI, and to give users more “agency” and “choice”. But is […]
Linux is no longer how you remember it to be.
More setup options, and you can copy scripts from other Linux instances.
This new offering from Collabora takes the company’s popular modernized LibreOffice spin from online to offline on users’ local machines. Although I usually write in… The post Collabora for Desktop Brings Modern UI and New Workflow to LibreOffice appeared first on FOSS Force.
Wine 10.20 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software enabling Windows applications and games to run on Linux. This is also with Wine 11.0 stable quickly approaching...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (krita and tryton-server), Oracle (bind9.18, ipa, kernel, libssh, redis, redis:7, sqlite, sssd, and vim), Slackware (cups), SUSE (containerd, cups, curl, dovecot24, git-bug, gitea-tea, glib2, grub2, himmelblau, java-25-openjdk, kernel, libmicrohttpd, libvirt, pnpm, powerpc-utils, python311, python313, redis, rnp, runc, sssd, tomcat11, unbound, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (cups, libxml2, openvpn, and webkit2gtk).
As some additional enticing Linux kernel patches posted this week for review, an updated patch series is working to optimize code generation during context switching...
Here's how to upgrade from Zorin 17 to Zorin 18, with all the steps you need to ensure a smooth, safe, and trouble-free system update.
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In the article on Tkinter Buttons, I mentioned binding keys to allow a key press to activate a button. Of course, other widgets have this ability as well. For buttons, we use an ‘underline’ feature to underline a character to show a user can access it with a key press instead of clicking it with the mouse. We can use the key binding process more later when we get to the article on ‘menus’. We will also cover a lengthy list of Events that can occur, because binding keys is creating an... https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-19-binding-keys-and-events-part-1.57438/
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