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KDE Gear 24.08 apps collection is now available for download with a new app features from travel aids to file managers and terminal apps.

As if Linux users weren't disappointed enough with Microsoft Windows...

Google has rolled out security fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 24.08 as the latest stable version of this open-source collection of applications for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and GNU/Linux distributions.

Milk-V has released preliminary specifications for the RuyiBook, a compact laptop built around the ‘XiangShan Nanhu’ CPU. The RuyiBook includes features such as dual 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet ports and an AMD RX 550 GPU for graphics.

As part of Intel's Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative they had been developing SVT-HEVC as a BSD-licensed high performance H.265/HEVC video encoder optimized for Xeon Scalable and Xeon D processors.

A security researcher has uncovered a critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin. Patchstack has awarded a $14,400 bounty for the discovery.

LXer Feature: 23-Aug-2024

Hi there it’s me Scott, in my previous article I wrote about How I Turned My Chromebook Into A Mintbook and all the fun entailed in doing it. Well, its been two months and a few friends and others have asked me, “So how’s it going with your Mintbook”? Or “My Mintbox” as my friend Donny kids me.

At long last, we bring you the final development version before GIMP 3! While the release of 2.99.18 is a bit behind our intended schedule, there are a number of new features and improvements that we’re very excited to share with you.

LibreOffice 24.8 is out, featuring advanced privacy settings, a wealth of new features across all apps, and broad OS compatibility. Learn more!

Mozilla is excited about today’s new definition of open source AI, and we endorse it as an important step forward. This past year has been marked by more and more people recognizing the societal benefits of open source AI.

Apache Solr is an open-source search platform built on Apache Lucene, providing advanced full-text search, real-time indexing, and scalability for applications. It's used for building powerful search engines, supporting features like faceted search, query suggestions, and geospatial search.

While Firefox users have been recommending Chrome users to ditch their cursed web browser for Firefox as a strong ad-blocking alternative all over the Internet, the company itself apparently chose to not say a single word about this and avoid the opportunity to increase the number of its users.

After a long wait, the GNOME Project released today the beta version of the upcoming GNOME 47 desktop environment series, due out on September 18th, 2024.

The Milk-V Cluster 08 is an advanced full-stack RISC-V cluster designed to deliver high bandwidth and efficient computing across multiple nodes. In addition, the company has introduced two high-performance modules that are comparable in performance to the NVIDIA Jetson NANO and Xavier NX modules.

There are a few interesting bits of information as part of this week's updates from the Ubuntu Desktop Team Integration Squad.

GStreamer 1.24.7 multimedia framework rolls out with multiple bug fixes. Enhancements in qt6, rtspsrc, and more.

The very idea of an HDMI to screw terminal adapters maybe seem moronic at first, but in an era of programmable IOs (PIO), and high-speed serial transmit (HSTX), those could end up being useful for boards or modules based on Raspberry Pi RP2040 or RP2350 since they’ve all be shown to support DVI output through HDMI connectors.

With governments around the world increasingly warming up to the idea of open-source software being used in their offices. Local governments and public organizations in India have been no stranger to trying out open-source operating systems and tools in their workflows.

The Visual Studio Code Cloud IDE is an online version of Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor, designed to provide a flexible and accessible development environment in the cloud. This guide will show you how to install Visual Code-Server on the Ubuntu 24.04 server with Nginx as a reverse proxy.