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Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source/Linux graphics driver team has submitted a merge request to "massively" improve the OpenGL glReadPixels performance within the common Mesa state tracker.

The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell for OS X.

Bitwarden is easily the most loved open-source password manager. Kyle Spearrin (Founder) tells us a bit more about the vision and goals.

At the 2024 XUANTIE RISC-V Ecosystem Conference, a collaborative effort between Yahboom, milK-V, and ALIBABA DAMO Academy led to the unveiling of the RISC-V MicroROS educational robot. This robot, based on the Milk-V Meles SBC, is now available for purchase and provides an advanced learning platform for robotics enthusiasts and students.

Sometimes, the best way to explain how to do something is to show it. This is why I'm excited about the new GIF tool in ChromeOS. It's now easy to take short GIFs on a Chromebook. It makes my job easier to show how things work in ChromeOS rather than just have static pictures.

Stay updated with our Linux Weekly Roundup for the latest news, hardware innovations, essential tools, and distribution updates in the Linux community.

The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers.

Tuxedo computer is working on an ARM Linux laptop powered by Snapdragon X Elite chipset. Great news for Linux users! Tuxedo Computers, a company that specializes in creating computers built for Linux, has announced that they are working on an ARM-based Linux laptop using Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chipset.

Today, it's widely known that proprietary firmware, such as BIOS and UEFI, often contains backdoors that compromise user privacy. I believe that hardware manufacturers intentionally integrate these backdoors into their closed-source firmware for obvious reasons. This presents a serious privacy issue, prompting the open-source community and privacy advocates to develop secure, open-source boot firmware. These alternatives prioritize user privacy and enhance hardware security.

HandBrake 1.8.1 free video transcoder fixes video artifacts, subtitle corruption, and more. Windows users, install .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.x first!

It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains. The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and from issuing updates and malware signatures from October.

Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows.

SeeedStudio Previews R1000 Powered by Raspberry Pi CM4

Flathub as the centralized repository for serving Flatpak sandboxed Linux applications crossed the threshold this weekend of serving more than two billion downloads.

X4: Foundations 7.00 Update and X4: Timelines from Egosoft bring some huge changes to the huge space sim and there's never been a better time to try it out.

Learn how to check the PHP (or PHP-FPM) version on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions from the command line.

Meet Reflector, the Arch Linux tool that optimizes your Pacman experience by selecting the fastest and most up-to-date mirrors. Here's how to use it.

Earlier this week was a proposal for creating a new Mesa legacy driver branch for clearing out older OpenGL drivers like the ATI R300, AMD R600, Lima, Nouveau NV30, and other older GPU drivers. However, other upstream Mesa developers aren't convinced by the proposal.

Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar. Firefox remains the browser of choice for many, but the latest update has lost users' tabs and makes it much more apparent when they have private tabs open, missing the point of privacy.

We have plenty of note-taking applications for Android. Some might prefer to use the default apps by Samsung, Google or any other phone manufacturer, and others would look for open-source solutions like Standard Notes.