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The KDE Project released KDE Gear 24.12 today, the latest stable version of this open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and the Linux ecosystem, bringing many new features and improvements to your favorite KDE applications.

Last week Intel announced the Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards as their first Xe2 discrete GPUs. Ahead of the Arc B580 graphics card hitting Internet retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on the Intel Arc B580.

macOS 15.2 is rolling out today (December 11), and my tech feeds are hyped with its highlights. Among the (non-AI) changes I spotted: the option to display weather info in the menu bar – native, built-in, ready to go.

kew supports gapless playback, 24-bit/192khz audio, MPRIS and now rivals musikcube and tap as the finest open source terminal music player.

Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla. When Firefox 135 is released in February, it'll ship with one less feature: Mozilla plans to remove the Do Not Track toggle from its Privacy and Security settings.

Get hands-on with AlmaLinux 10 Beta, featuring new x86_64_v2 support, top-tier toolsets, advanced security options, and expanded hardware compatibility.

A lot of people like Linux Mint. Do you know why? We think it's the user experience.

Linus Torvalds took to reverting some code tonight within the mainline Linux kernel that inadvertently had broken support having filenames with ?? and other special Unicode characters in filenames when on file-systems with case-folding (optional case insensitive file/folder name) support.

Learn how to implement a Bubble Sort algorithm using Bash scripting. Bubble Sort is a simple sorting technique that repeatedly steps through the list, compares adjacent elements, and swaps them if they are in the wrong order. This article provides a complete example, including a script, sample data, and an explanation of the logic.

QEMU 9.2 open-source machine emulator and virtualization software has been released today with various improvements, new features, and other changes.

KDE Gear 24.12 apps collection is a remarkable release, including a revamped Okular, mobile-ready Dolphin, and many more updates to enhance cross-device connections, faster performance, and better visuals.

The extended filesystem, otherwise known as ext, has been a fundamental part of Linux since before the 1.0 release in 1994. Currently the filesystem is on its fourth major revision, in use since its release in 2008 thanks to its stability, reliability, and backwards compatibility with the other ext filesystem versions. But with that much history there are bound to be a few issues cropping up here and there.

Valve released today Proton 9.0-4 as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems.

Back at the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting was an interesting presentation by AMD engineer Joseph Huber for how they have been exploring running common, standard C/C++ code directly on GPUs without having to be adapted for any GPU language / programming dialects or other adaptations.

Want to optimize your Linux desktop for responsiveness or gaming? Try the custom Libquorix or XanMod Kernels. Besides the default and mainline Kernels, there are some other kernels available for Debian/Ubuntu users.

Fresh off of adding support for automatic window snapping, the developers behind GNOME Shell’s most configurable and feature-packed window tiling extension are back with another update.

So, are you ready to try openSUSE for gaming?

Every now and then I load OpenPA and browse around. Its creator and maintainer, Paul Weissmann, has been very active lately updating the site with new articles, even more information, and tons of other things, and it’s usually a joy to stumble upon something I haven’t read yet, or just didn’t know anything about.

The OpenMandriva team released today OpenMandriva Lx 24.12 as the latest snapshot of the “ROME” rolling release series of this Mandriva Linux successor featuring the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies.

Going toe-to-toe with proprietary players these days means including a capable AI assistant. As Ragu used to say, “It’s in there.”