Showing all newswire headlines

Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.

Learn how to install and write your first Fortran program on Linux, a high-level language crucial for scientific and engineering calculations in niche domains.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Lite 7.8, DietPi 10, VirtualBox 7.2.6, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.4, Plasma 6.6 Beta 2, Transmission 4.1, Xfce begins work on a Wayland compositor, what happens if Linus Torvalds steps away, and more.

While typically the stable Linux kernel would come after the -rc7 release a week prior, for Linux 6.19 the release is being dragged out by an extra week not due to any scary bugs but rather due to the holiday downtime at the end of the year. As such Linux 6.19-rc8 is out today with the stable v6.19 release expected next Sunday...

A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD 11 for providing insanely fast booting micro-VMs intended for micro-services and similar environments...

The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 release will add a global keyboard shortcut that lets users quickly clear their notification history.

Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface / Wayland shell project for mobile Linux environments. Phosh has been making steady progress and has more features out on the horizon...

Explore a step-by-step guide for installing, configuring, and running Pydio Cells on Ubuntu to manage and collaborate on your document files.

Introduced to the mainline Linux kernel last year was "sheaves" as an opt-in per-CPU array-based caching layer. Sheaves was merged back in Linux 6.18 and while it started as an opt-in caching layer, the plan is to replace more CPU slabs / caches with sheaves. Queued up for slated introduction in the upcoming Linux 7.0 cycle is replacing more of those caches with sheaves...

Budgie desktop 10.10.1 arrives as the first maintenance update in the 10.10 series, with stability improvements, bug fixes, and better Wayland behavior.

Another great albeit overdue improvement for GNOME 50 has landed: Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" functionality for modern displays is now promoted and no longer treated as an experimental feature...

Shotcut 26.1 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD...

Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 7.8 is now available, featuring 12 rewritten applications as the project moves toward Python and GTK4 in Series 8.

For those interested in the Dolby Digital Plus "Enhanced AC-3" audio compression format for open-source software, the last of the patents for this widely-used format by streaming services and more appears to have expired...

NotepadNext 0.13, a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++, adds autosave sessions, workspace support, and new editing controls.

Want to use your PS4 / DualShock 4 controller wirelessly on Linux? I just tested a simple Bluetooth method to connect them, and it works flawlessly. No extra drivers, no headachejust pair and play. Tested on KDE Plasma, but it should be compatible with other desktop environments since they share the same Bluetooth backend. Check out the full setup and gameplay test in the video!

GNOME developers had a busy week in preparing for the GNOME 50 beta release, many GNOME developers attending FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, and other happenings...

Discover different virtual isolation tools in Python, including pipx installation and usage on Linux, with practical examples.

Linux Lite 7.8 has been released today as the latest stable update to this Ubuntu-based distribution using the lightweight Xfce desktop environment and based on the latest Ubuntu LTS series.