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Following the Color Management protocol introduced in Wayland Protocols 1.41, out today is Wayland Protocols 1.47 with various revisions to that color management and HDR support...
SparkyLinux 2025.12 distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 6.17. Here's what's new!
If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesn’t mean Linux isn’t for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means you’ve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.
Scribus 1.6.5 free and open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various updates and bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!
There's another setback to the open-source driver code around Intel's Gaudi accelerator support on Linux...
At Paris’s Open Source Experience conference, six Acteurs du Libre awards mapped out a snapshot of Europe’s free software ecosystem in 2025, from enterprise strategy to privacy‑first Android and public‑sector platforms. The post Paris-Based ‘Open Source Experience’ Conference Hands Out ‘Acteurs du Libre’ Awards appeared first on FOSS Force.
Besides Valve funding FEX-Emu for x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux as part of their Steam Play (Proton) efforts in being able to get Windows x86/x64 games running on AArch64 SteamOS for the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame, there is also work happening in kernel-space to help this emulated gaming experience on AArch64...
This data project details the shift to an In-Situ ELT workflow showcases a hybrid RStudio/Python environment essential for transforming today’s analysts into "Data Ops."
Even before the Linux 6.19 merge window wrapped up this weekend with the Linux 6.19-rc1 release, there was already the first pull request to DRM-Next of the first batch of new material to be queued for Linux 6.19's successor...
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 14th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 146, Cinnamon 6.6. pearOS, KDE Gear 25.12, KDE Plasma 6.5.4, KDE Frameworks 6.21, COSMIC on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, Thunderbird 146, Tails 7.3.1, AerynOS 2025.12, Parrot 7.0 Beta, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.2, NVIDIA 580.119.02, Kali Linux 2025.4, Grml 2025.12, Linux 6.19 RC, Mixxx 2.5.4, and more.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS launches with COSMIC 1.0, Kali Linux 2025.4, Manjaro 25.1 Preview, Cinnamon 6.6, Plasma 6.5.4, Firefox 146, GNOME to reject AI-generated Shell extensions, and more.
Pangolin 1.13, an open-source, zero-trust VPN, introduces Private Resources, user devices, and a new WireGuard-based networking model.
Linus Torvalds released 6.19-rc1 and closed the 6.19 merge window on December 14 (Japan time), after having pulled 12,314 non-merge commits into the mainline. Over 8,000 of those commits came in after our first 6.19 merge-window summary was written. The second part of the merge window was focused on drivers, but brought in a number of other changes as well.
With the right tool and a bit of artistic talent, you can create two-dimensional cartoons, even without Flash. In this article, we present four animation programs and look at how well they perform in practice.
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