Linux NewsVoid Linux Maintainer Orphans 100+ Packages Over AI Policy Dispute
A Void Linux maintainer has orphaned more than 100 packages he maintained over a dispute of the project's AI policy for LLM-generated text...
Intel Reverses Decision To Cancel Their Open-Source Font Project
Amid Intel cutting back on open-source projects over the past two years as cost cutting measures at the company, their latest open-source project on the chopping block was the peculiar font they developed a few years back. The project was archived this week only to change course two days later...
OpenRGB 1.0 Released After Nearly Three Years of Development
OpenRGB 1.0 is out with a redesigned profile system, background service support, Qt 6, PawnIO, hotplugging, and expanded hardware support.
GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock
GTK 4.24 released on Friday as the newest stable feature release to the GTK4 toolkit. It's quite a nice update to GTK4 for pairing with next week's GNOME 51 desktop release...
Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...
Ubuntu Developers Contemplate Linux Firmware HWE Package
A possible future enhancement being considered for Ubuntu Long Term Support "LTS" releases is the introduction of a linux-firmware-hwe package as part of their hardware enablement (HWE) stack...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance
Along with KDE Plasma 6.8 beta releasing this week, there were some other interesting Plasma changes this week worthy of a shout-out...
Ubuntu pulls 24.04.5 downloads due to installer bug
Canonical has pulled the Ubuntu 24.04.5 desktop ISO because of a bug that crashes the installer when users select the extended install options. The fifth point release to 24.04 landed on 10 September, bringing updated OS installers powered by the Linux 7.0 kernel. But many of those who downloaded the release found they couldn’t complete installation using the desktop installer if they opted for extended software. Only the standard amd64 Ubuntu desktop image is affected. Other Ubuntu 24.04.5 images, including those for Arm64, and flavours are unaffected by the crash.They remain available for download. Canonical’s Matthieu Clemenceau shared the update, […]
Default terminal option is coming to GNOME Settings
An option pick a default terminal is to GNOME Settings, as the image above, teased by developer Ignacy Kuchciński last week, shows. Those of you who don’t use the command line often enough to care about what terminal is set as your system default, may be surprised to hear you can’t currently change it via a GUI. If you go to Settings > Apps > Default Apps you can pick your preferred web browser, email client, imager viewer and others apps, but you can’t set a terminal emulator as your system default. For developers, the missing option can be annoying. […]
How I turned my Linux terminal sessions into daily speedrun challenges
Time your command runs, then iterate with various techniques to get faster and faster.
PocketBeagle 2 TechLab - Part 1
The TechLab is a Cape used to help learn to program for the PocketBeagle 1 and 2. There are quite a few components built-in to the TechLab, so this is an inexpensive way to learn some programming. The images you can download for the PocketBeagle 2 include one that is listed as 'Workshop'. You need the image when hooking up to the TechLab since it has the drivers in the kernel for the TechLab Cape. Specs on the PocketBeagle TechLab The TechLab is a CAPE that attaches to a... https://www.linux.org/threads/pocketbeagle-2-techlab-part-1.64232/
Gitte As Git Client For GNOME Continues Maturing Quite Nicely
For those in pursuit of a graphical Git client for GNOME or the Linux desktop at large, the GTK4-powered Gitte continues advancing rather well and out this week is its v0.10 release...
I ran Arch Linux for 5 years — Fedora does the same job with less work
Fedora feels like the finished product of an experiment that is Arch Linux.
First GNU Automake in 15 Months Adds New ‘Make Dist’ Feature
GNU Automake’s first update in 15 months adds an optional archive-format feature and fixes a 14-year-old distribution bug. The post First GNU Automake in 15 Months Adds New ‘Make Dist’ Feature appeared first on FOSS Force.
Kdenlive 26.08.1 Video Editor Released with Timeline Improvements
Kdenlive 26.08.1 is out with fixes for several crashes, ripple editing issues, Effects Zones, transcoding, and theme handling.