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Mageia 10 RC1 Released With Newer Packages

Following the ISOs dropping a few days ago, today the Mageia 10 release candidate was officially announced for those fond of this Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to Mageia and Mandrake Linux...

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Firefox 151 refreshes New Tab page, supports PDF merging + more

The new tab page has a (slightly) new look and a new name in Firefox 151, the latest update to Mozilla’s famous open-source web browser that rolls out this week (May 18). Now called Firefox Home, the new tab page has a β€œnew look and feel”, to quote Mozilla. It’s not quite that dramatic, but the rounded search bar (no longer sticky on scroll) draws from the upcoming Nova redesign. You can now also choose to show more shortcuts, up to a maximum of 4 rows. Stories stay put, but the button to follow a topic moves to the left-hand […]

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More Intel Open-Source Projects Formally Sunset: BigDL Time Series Toolkit & Others

Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were already dormant and not too noteworthy but there were also some more notable ones discontinued like their legendary Clear Linux, Software Defined Silicon, Optane Memory software projects, and then other efforts like open ecosystem community/evangelism. This past week yet more Intel software projects were formally disbanded...