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Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features...
There's the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell's contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years...
Independent FOSS journalism doesn’t fund itself. In this video, FOSS Force Linux apps columnist Jack Wallen makes his pitch for why our 2026 Independence fundraiser deserves your support. The post Jack Wallen Speaks Up for FOSS Force’s Independence appeared first on FOSS Force.
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Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4...
What’s Up Docker 8.2 enables digest watching by default and adds support for TrueForge and Codeberg registries.
While the Alliance For Open Media "AOMedia" is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC)...
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Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window closing later today with the Linux 7.0-rc1 release, the performance "perf" subsystem tooling changes were merged on Saturday. Among the notable changes here are the performance events and metrics handling for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors...
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