Linux NewsOBS Studio 33 Nears Release: Here’s What to Expect
OBS Studio 33 is nearing its stable release with a new plugin-loading system, CEF 150, improved source snapping, and several capture improvements.
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GNOME 50.5 Improves Multi-Monitor Support, HDR Support, and More
GNOME 50.5 is now available as the fifth update to the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment series with various bug fixes, updated translations, and other improvements.
"Toolpak" Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS...
Fastfetch 2.69 System Information Tool Adds Animated Logos, Better Linux Support
Fastfetch 2.69 introduces GIF and APNG logo support, improved Linux detection, expanded Bluetooth reporting, and numerous fixes.
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MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others
Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks...
PeaZip 11.3 File Archiver Adds Safer PEA Extraction
PeaZip 11.3 introduces safer PEA archive handling, mandatory master passwords, improved ZPAQ support, and several usability updates.
PeaZip 11.3 Archive Manager Improves ZPAQ Support, Adds New Themes
PeaZip 11.3 open-source archive manager is now available for download with improved ZPAQ support, new themes, new keyboard shortcut, improved handling of invalid filenames, and more.
AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc5 release...
Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop
Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots...
AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what's found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes
Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma 6.9...
Era, a new Rust-based calendar app for GNOME, is now in beta
Era is a new Rust-based calendar app for GNOME that describes itself as “beautiful and performant”. And you don’t need to schedule a date to try it; a beta release was made available on Flathub this week. At first glance, Era looks like GNOME’s Calendar (which got a big update in the GNOME 51, notably in ways you feel rather than see). But then, how could it not? There are only so many ways to arrange a grid of numbers in boxes with room for coloured event labels. Functionally, Era covers the same ground: you can browse dates, add, edit […]
OBS Studio 33 Promises Support for Latest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs, Beta Out Now
OBS Studio 33 entered public beta testing today with support for newest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs for NVIDIA Audio Effects and Video Effects, a check for encoders being missing when loading a profile, and more.