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DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake
The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality...
KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap
KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality...
Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support...
Shelly 3.1 Package Manager Is Out with Support for Building Arch Linux Packages
Shelly 3.1 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with support for building Arch Linux packages and many other changes.
GNU Emacs 31.1: Approaching Fifty and Still Improving
More than four decades after Richard Stallman began GNU Emacs, version 31.1 makes the classic editor friendlier for everyday Linux users. The post GNU Emacs 31.1: Approaching Fifty and Still Improving appeared first on FOSS Force.
Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’ hits feature freeze
Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, has now entered feature freeze. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along with the rest of the package set, ahead of the final, stable Ubuntu 26.10 release in October. “Ideally, you should all now be focusing on bug fixing rather than getting new features into the release”, said Paride Legovini, engineer at Canonical, in a post on the Ubuntu developer mailing list – albeit a few days after the fact. However, the final makeup of Ubuntu 26.10 – which is set to offer GNOME 51, more Rust […]
Supporting Linux Talent Development in Japan with Ping-t: Reaching More Than 500,000 Learners
Supporting Linux Talent Development in Japan with More Than 500,000 Learners and Over 20,000 LPI Exam Vouchers Sold in Five Years Ping-t Inc. (https://mondai.ping-t.com/g) is one of Japan’s leading online learning platforms specializing in IT certification training. The platform has ... Read more The post Supporting Linux Talent Development in Japan with Ping-t: Reaching More Than 500,000 Learners appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Linux 7.3 is Shaping Up to Be One of The Most Performance-Focused Kernel Releases in Years
The merge window is still open, but faster filesystems, a smarter scheduler, and real-time latency fixes are already in.
Omarchy Linux Just Got $8 Million From Tech's Biggest Names
A new nonprofit is being setup that would house all that money, and Hyprland is the first external project to benefit.
Linux 7.3 Merges Initial Kernel Driver Support For The 2026 Steam Controller
The HID subsystem updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. Among other hardware additions, the 2026 Valve Steam Controller is seeing initial kernel driver support...
China Switching from Windows to Linux
China has ordered several government agencies to drop a Chinese-developed version of Windows 10 in favor of either KylinOS or UOS.
Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” Released with GNOME 50 and ARM64 Support
Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” is now available with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.1, ARM64 support, reproducible builds, and a new backup tool.
Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” Released with Reproducible Builds, ARM64 Support
Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux and powered by Linux kernel 7.1 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment.
Ubuntu 24.04 gets a big open-vm-tools update
A major update to open-vm-tools, a package that integrates Linux virtual machines with VMware hypervisors, is rolling out to users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. “Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more recent hypervisors”, Canonical’s Lena Voytek explained in a backport request. It’s a full backport from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to support platform enablement to benefit those running 24.04 LTS. The open-vm-tool package goes from v12.3.5 to v3.0.10 (the same version in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS). VMware’s open-vm-tools package enables clock sync with the hypervisor host, ‘graceful’ power management for clean shutdowns, vSphere API, shared folder support, relays […]