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The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver as this community open-source project continues to be around enabling video acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with the Firefox web browser on Linux that supports the VA-API interface but not NVIDIA's NVDEC...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: PostmarketOS; LKRG 1.0; Fedora elections; EROFS, NTFS, and XFS; Fedora and GPG 2.5; BPF kfuncs. Briefs: curl bounties; GPG security; Guix 1.5.0; ReactOS turns 30; glibc 2.43; Rust 1.93; Xfwl4; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Mecha Systems has revealed its Mecha Comet, a new handheld computer powered by – you guessed it – Linux.
Immich 2.5, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, introduces Free Up Space, non-destructive editing, web-based backups, and more.
Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system commonly for multi-lingual integration. While GNU gettext is commonly used by countless open-source projects and adapted for many different programming languages, only an hour ago was GNU gettext 1.0 finally released...
OPNsense 26.1 open-source firewall and routing platform boosts security with threat intelligence, host discovery, and clearer real-time firewall visibility.
GParted Live 1.8.0 is ready to fix your ballooning partition problems.
We have received the sad news that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the blind-friendly Slackware-based Slint distribution, has recently passed away. Philippe Delavalade, who posted the announcement to the Slint mailing list, said: Early 2015, I asked on the slackware list if brltty could be added in the installer; Didier answered promptly that he could do it on slint. Afterwards, he worked hard so that slint became as accessible as possible for visually impaired people. You all know that all these years, he tried and succeeded to answer as quickly as possible to our issues and questions. He will be irreplaceable.
This open source project has survived Anthropic's trademark lawyers, crypto scammers hijacking its identity, and security holes exposing users.
VirtualBox 7.2.6 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with initial support for the Linux 6.19 kernel and many other improvements. Here's what's new!
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced that it will not be holding the 2026 spring board election. Instead, it will be creating a working group to "review and improve OSI's board member selection process" and provide recommendations by September 2026: The public election process was designed to gather community priorities and improve board member selection, while final appointments remained with the board. Over time, that nuance has become a source of understandable confusion for community members. Many reasonably expected elections to function as elections normally do, and in fact, the board has generally adopted the electorate's recommendations. When a process feels unclear, trust suffers. When trust suffers, engagement becomes harder. This is especially problematic for an organization whose mission depends on legitimacy and credibility. [...] OSI tried its experiment for the right reasons, but a variety of factors resulted in "elections" that are performatively democratic wh
Phones running Linux are ubiquitous these days and it has been that way since Android started working toward dominance in the smartphone market. Unfortunately, Android has slowly increased its freedom-unfriendliness and has become something of a privacy nightmare. In a talk entitled "We need an open-source phone OS" at Open Source Summit Japan 2025, Luca Weiss described the smartphone landscape and gave an overview of postmarketOS as an alternative Linux operating system for mobile handsets.
Transmission 4.1 adds support for IPv6 and dual-stack UDP trackers, sequential downloading, and improved µTP (Micro Transport Protocol) performance.
VirtualBox 7.2.6 improves reliability on Windows 11, AMD systems, and Linux hosts, with fixes across VMM, GUI, and Guest Additions.
An open‑source journal and life manager that aims to integrate tasks, notes, and local AI without relying on the cloud. The post An Ambitious Life Manager That Tries to Do It All… and Almost Succeeds appeared first on FOSS Force.
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