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A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same backlight brightness across reboots under Linux...
Calibre 9.2 introduces security fixes, ZIP output changes, and multiple bug fixes across the e-book viewer and bookshelf.
If you followed along with my blog, youβd have a chatbot running on your local Fedora machine. (And if not, no worries as the scripts below implement this chatbot!) Our chatbot talks, and has a refined personality, but does it know anything about the topics weβre interested in? Unless it has been trained on those [β¦]
Calibre 9.2 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here's what's new!
Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime...
As of this week Oracle's latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux's native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality...
GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week...
One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to fetch firmware files from the Windows 11 on ARM partition as the necessary firmware bits for Linux use aren't upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. That has gradually improved over time from the qcom-firmware-extract making the process easier to more firmware bits eventually being added to linux-firmware.git...
The Libre company, found at 'https://libre.computer/', has made a new Single Board Computer (SBC) that has a model number of 'AML-S905D3-CC' and is called 'Solitude'. The Solitude is a new board that has support for a Linux OS. Solitude Specifications The boardβs specs are: CPU: Amlogic S905D3 SoC 4 ARM Cortex-A55 @ 2.016GHz GPU: Mali-G31 MP2 2 E Cores NPU: 1+1 Cores DRAM: 4GB LPDDR4 (2GB available for volume orders)... https://www.linux.org/threads/revie...de-aml-s905d3-cc-single-board-computer.59022/
Ardour 9.0 open-source DAW (digital audio workstation) is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
Engineers MichaΕ Ε»ygowski and Piotr KrΓ³l of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not making strides to fully open-up their FSP package, the talk was centered around the modern AMD open-source firmware efforts led by their openSIL initiative for open-source CPU silicon initialization to replace AGESA in the Zen 6 timeframe...
Linux is only as secure as you make it.
Darktable 5.4.1 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with noise profiles for Canon EOS 10D and Sony ILCE-7CR cameras, as well as many bug fixes.
Darktable 5.4.1, an open-source raw photo editing tool, is out with many bug fixes addressing export issues, RAW processing errors, crashes, and metadata inconsistencies.
This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. The previous article talked about devices in your home. Modern cars are probably the most intensive conglomerations of computing power we have in day-to-day life. Estimates of the ... Read more The post What Everybody Knows About You: Your Car appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
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