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Ahead of the Linux 7.3 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow, last minute workarounds were merged for the Samsung 990 PRO and Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe solid state drives...
With KDE Plasma 6.8 released earlier this week, KDE developers have begun working on more feature activity toward Plasma 6.9...
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 was released on Friday as the latest update to this community-maintained tablet/smartphone Ubuntu Linux platform. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.5 was also released as a maintenance update for the prior series...
It's fine, just not for me.
OpenRGB 1.1 fixes command-line and SDK server issues, improves device hotplug handling, and introduces a new hidapi-hotplug dependency on Linux.
The new joint venture gives openDesk a unified commercial front as the open-source suite takes aim at Microsoft 365. The post Six of Eight openDesk Vendors Form Open Productivity for Digital Sovereignty appeared first on FOSS Force.
Previously, I wrote the article 'Arduino UNO Q: A Debian Linux Board for Headless Projects' and a few articles after this one on programming the Uno Q. There is still more to come. Recently, Arduino sent me the new Ventuno Q as a review unit. With the Ventuno Q, I got a USB-C 65 W power supply and a 24-pin USB-C to USB-C 1 meter cable. So, we need to get into the specs of the board... https://www.linux.org/threads/arduino-ventuno-q-review.72949/
Wine 11.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux. We are quickly approaching the point where this development work will culminate into the Wine 12.0 stable release in early 2027...
CentOS is dead, but if you look hard enough, its spirit isn't.
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 adds support for eight more devices, updates Morph Browser, improves notifications, and fixes a security vulnerability.
Wine 11.20 adds ARM64EC relay debugging, improves XML validation, moves CD-ROM handling to Mount Manager, and fixes 24 bugs.
GNOME OS Preview has been released today as a new edition of the GNOME OS distribution featuring the latest and greatest GNOME desktop environment.
The GNOME Project has provided GNOME OS for some time; until now, the project only provided a "Nightly" edition that was built from the latest commits and was aimed solely at GNOME developers. Adrian Vovk has now announced the release of GNOME OS Preview, which is intended for a non-developer audience: GNOME OS Preview is the current GNOME OS Nightly, but without the "nightly" aspect. Instead, it's built from the latest stable GNOME release (GNOME 51.1, at the time of writing). GNOME OS Preview lives in the same branches on GitLab as the stable org.gnome.Platform Flatpak runtimes. GNOME OS Preview is only a few weeks old, so it has only seen limited real-life testing so far. We therefore expect people will uncover some issues initially. That said, Preview is significantly more stable than Nightly, which dozens of people have been daily driving without major issues for over a year. Thus, we're feeling confident that Preview is going to be reliable enough for daily use by non-developer e
Self-referential structures that can be used without unsafe code have posed a problem for Rust for years. There are many cases where a self-referential data structure is the elegant algorithmic choice, but implementing it in accordance with Rust's lifetime rules is all but impossible. At Kangrejos 2026, Gary Guo presented a clever solution to the problem in the context of the kernel's pin_init crate, which helps with the creation of immovable data structures, typically for interoperability with C. Guo's changes could help remove most of the unsafe code related to lifetimes in the Nova driver and, eventually, other Rust components.
They say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently.
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