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Drew Fustini sent out DeviceTree patches this past weekend for enabling the HDMI display controller on the T-Head TH1520 RISC-V SoC. Additionally, there's a patch for lighting up the HDMI display support on the LicheePi 4A RISC-V board...
With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS quickly approaching release next week, Canonical is beginning more of their road-mapping for Ubuntu 26.10 and beyond. To help in plotting future work, Canonical is interested in feedback for features or improvements that developers/users would like to see around their Mir project...
The fourth iteration of patches implementing Virtual Swap Space for Linux were sent out on Wednesday. This stems from ideas going back years for an abstraction to better separate a swap entry from its physical backing storage...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Privacy battles; page-cache-timing protections; null filesystems; Fedora Sandbox; safer kmalloc(); BPF in io_uring. Briefs: AppArmor vulnerabilities; snapd vulnerability; Sashiko; DPL election; Fedora Asahi 43; GIMP 3.2; Marknote 1.5; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Several Linux distributions are restricting access from Brazil due to concerns about a new digital law impacting online software distribution.
Cindy Cohn is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and she gave the Saturday morning keynote at SCALE 23x in Pasadena about some of the work she and others have done to help protect online rights, especially digital privacy. The talk recounted some of the history of the court cases that the organization has brought over the years to try to dial back privacy invasions. One underlying theme was the role that attendees can play in protecting our rights, hearkening back to earlier efforts by the technical community.
Version 4.24.0 of the Samba SMB filesystem implementation has been released. There are a number of significant changes, including audit support for authentication information, remote password management, a number of Kerberos improvements, asynchronous-I/O rate limiting, and more.
GNOME 50 Tokyo introduces parental controls with screen time limits, as well as significant performance and usability enhancements.
Functional programming is one of the fundamental divisions among programming languages, and can be traced back very early in programming history: notably to LISP and ML. This series interviews leading proponents of some current functional languages to look at their ... Read more The post Functional Languages and the Future of Programming (Part 1) appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
GNOME 50 has been released. Notable changes in this release include enhancements to the Orca screen-reader application, interface and performance improvements for GNOME's file manager (Files), a "massive set of stability and performance updates" for its display-handling technologies, and much more. See also the "What's new for developers" article that covers changes of interest to GNOME and GNOME application developers.
GNOME 50 is out today, bringing a new set of features to the open-source desktop environment that Ubuntu uses. The latest release, codenamed “Tokyo”, turns Variable Refresh Rate , an expanded set of parental controls, and hardware accelerated Remote Desktop sessions. The document viewer also gains ‘digital ink’ and form filling tools. Ubuntu users will get GNOME 50 as part of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, which is out in April 2026. New Features in GNOME 50 VRR and fractional scaling on by default GNOME 50 enables Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support by default (on compatible hardware). This is arguably the headline […]
AMD engineers are experimenting with a proof-of-concept implementation of a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) implementation atop the DRM_GPUSVM framework...
GNOME 50 desktop environment is now available as a major release that introduces numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
An Intel project developed the past several years was kAFL-Fuzzer as a hardware-assisted feedback fuzzer for x86 virtual machines (VMs) to help with security. While it saw a lot of work in prior years, development activity slowed down last year and now the project has been formally ended...
A significant portion of the Manjaro team has signed a manifesto demanding the project split from its parent company and restructure as a non-profit.
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