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KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
KDE and GNOME have decided that because they’re not big and complicated enough already, they might work better if they have their own custom distributions underneath. What’s the worst that could happen? A talk from this year’s KDE conference, Akademy 2024, looks like it’s going to become real. The talk, by KDE developer Harald Sitter,…
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Install Snap Apps in Linux Mint
Snap is Canonical’s universal package format for Linux. It lets developers build their software once for users on multiple Linux distributions to use. At least, that’s the theory. In reality, few Linux distributions outside of the Ubuntu ecosphere support Snap out of the box. Most carry the underlying Snap daemon package (snapd) in the repositories,…
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NVIDIA 550.135 Driver Released, Better Kernel 6.11 Support
NVIDIA 550.135 Graphics Driver Released with Better Linux Kernel 6.11 SupportThis release also improves the build process of the NVIDIA kernel module and supports recent versions of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 550.135 graphics driver as the latest “Production Branch” version for users who want to stay on the stable…
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New Shotcut 24.11 Video Editor Released
Shotcut 24.11 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Various Bug FixesThis release fixes issues and crashes reported by users from the Shotcut 24.10 and Shotcut 24.08 releases. Shotcut 24.11 open-source, free, and cross-platform video editor written in Qt is now available for download with various bug fixes from previous releases to improve the software’s existing functionality…
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New Blender Introduces Vulkan Backend
Author: by Marius Nestor The new Blender 4.3 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Introduces Experimental Vulkan Backend. This release also introduces multi-pass compositing support for EEVEE, ardware-accelerated ray-tracing on Linux, and much more. The Blender Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Blender 4.3 as a major update to this powerful, free, cross-platform, and…
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Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again
Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn’t involve learning Rust. Filip Pizlo, senior director of language engineering at Epic Games, has created his own memory-safe flavor of C and – because why not? – named it…
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