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Asahi Brings Better Gaming To Apple Mx
For those of you longing for better gaming on an Apple Silicon device, Asahi Linux is here to help. While Apple’s own line of CPUs are relatively new kids on the block, they’ve still been around for four years now, giving hackers ample time to dissect their innards. The team behind Asahi Linux has now…
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GNOME 47.1 Release
GNOME 47.1 Released to Improve Quick Settings Accessibility and Display Scaling!This release also fixes explicit sync with virtual monitors without PipeWire streams and add accent color support in the tablet configuration UI. After a one-week delay, the GNOME project released today GNOME 47.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest and greatest GNOME 47…
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Open Source AI Projects Devs will Love
11 open source AI projects that developers will love. AI copilots are great, but what else is out there? Here are 11 open source AI projects that make writing beautiful software easier. The most creative and impactful ideas in software often appear as open source. Sharing code invites a global community of contributors to work…
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Open Washing: Companies Pretend To Be Open Source
If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s AI large language model (LLM) Llama 3 is open source. It’s not, despite what he says. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) spells it out in the Open Source Definition, and Llama 3’s license – with clauses on litigation and branding – flunks it on several grounds. Meta, unfortunately, is…
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Bad Guys: Several Russian maintainers kicked out
A dozen kernel maintainers have been removed from the developers’ official Linux file. Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux project’s number two, has removed them from MAINTAINERS as part of a patch with a few words: “Some entries deleted due to various compliance requirements. They may return in the future if sufficient documentation is provided.” Kroah-Hartman did…
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Mount Bitlocker Encrypted Windows Partition in Linux
Here’s how you can mount the encrypted Windows partition inside Linux in a dual boot setup. Here’s the scenario. My system came with Windows 10 Pro and that came with BitLocker encryption. I installed Ubuntu in the dual boot mode even with the BitLocker encryption enabled for Windows. You can easily access the Windows files…
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