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Valve released a new stable Steam Client update with many Linux improvements, as well as updates to the Big Picture Mode, Steam Input, in-game overlay, game recording, and more.
Mozilla has announced Firefox Enterprise, a commercial offering for businesses and government agencies. It combines Firefox with a management console that organizations can run on their own servers.
KDE’s boys in the band are telling their story in a feature-length documentary. You might want to put some extra butter on your popcorn. The post Thirty Years of KDE, Coming to a Laptop Near Me appeared first on FOSS Force.
Currently in beta, it pairs Prairie, a new desktop, with a native app suite and an AI assistant.
Kdenlive 26.08.2 is out with fixes for crashes, proxy clips, audio recording, project files, and several timeline and title editor issues.
While Mesa is predominantly used for GPU drivers, open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso continues advancing the capabilities of NPUs within the Mesa driver stack...
At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openEuler laid out how SuperPoD OS and Agentic Scaling change what an operating system is expected to do.
The privacy-focused Tails 7.15 Linux distribution is out, updating Tor Browser, the Tor client, and firmware packages for newer hardware.
KDE Linux, the KDE Project's second stab at creating its own distribution, was first introduced as "Project Banana" at the Akademy conference in 2024 by Harald Sitter. Nate Graham announced the first alpha-quality release during Akademy 2025. Graham and Sitter paired up at Akademy 2026 to provide an update on its progress, lay out plans for refining the distribution to address user feedback, and discuss some of the problems that still need to be dealt with. KDE Linux is still not-quite-ready for prime time, but Graham hopes that it will be suitable for widespread use soon—for an undefined value of "soon".
Intel ISPC 1.32 released today as the newest version of this Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler built atop LLVM/Clang. ISPC is a variant of the C programming language with extensiosn catering to Single Program Multiple Data programming for both Intel CPUs and GPUs...
Mozilla Thunderbird 158 open-source email client is now available for download with updated ExtensionSettings policy, improved quick filter responsiveness, and numerous bug fixes.
Mozilla Thunderbird 158 improves Quick Filter performance and fixes OpenPGP, CardDAV, CalDAV, and Linux authentication issues.
The Lix and Nix projects have jointly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities that can be used to escalate privileges to root on systems running the Lix or Nix daemons. "All systems that build untrusted derivations are affected." Releases with fixes from each project are available today. CVE IDs have not yet been requested. See the announcement for more details on the vulnerabilities.
by Emma Clapp Receiving a transaction notification is only the first step. Production software still has to decide whether that event is safe to turn into application state. A WebSocket callback can arrive in milliseconds. What happens afterward is harder. The XRP Price may be the public-facing metric most people associate with the asset, but developers integrating the XRP Ledger have a different concern. A long-running service has to detect transactions, determine whether their outcomes are final, and update local application state without acting twice or acting too soon. When an XRPL Event Actually Means Something A WebSocket connection can save an application from constantly polling for new activity. On a Linux service, that means keeping the connection open and listening for the XRP Ledger events the application cares about. The XRP Ledger’s subscribe documentation explains how applications can listen for ledger activity, transactions, and account-related events. The transactions s
The Apache-2.0 licensed app is written in Rust and includes an AI Assistant that can run commands on your map.
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