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April 15: Richard Stallman to Speak at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
Richard Stallman from Free Software FoundationNext Wednesday in the afternoon Dr. Stallman will speak in a US college for the second time this year and for the second time in nearly 8 years.
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Firefox 149.0.2 Improves the Browser Toolbar on Wayland for Linux Users

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
Firefox 149.0.2 open-source web browser is now available for download with improved Wayland support for Linux users, two new enterprise policicies, and other changes.
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GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting...
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Popular macOS Network Monitor Little Snitch Arrives on Linux

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
Little Snitch, long known on macOS, is now available on Linux with app-level network monitoring built around eBPF and a web-based UI.
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RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1

Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
The BeagleV Ahead is an open-source RISC-V single board computer S(BC) built around the quad-core TH1520 SoC. With the Linux 7.1 mainline kernel there is HDMI display support coming now that the Device Tree bits have been added...
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VMUFAT File-System Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
The newest Linux file-system driver proposed for the kernel is... VMUFAT...
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EFF Says It’s Quitting TwitterX

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
It took a minute — actually a long minute — but Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally shut the door on the platform formerly known as Twitter, without even a “goodbye.”
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Linux 2026 "Spring Cleaning" To Address Some Code Remnants As Far Back As Linux v0.1

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time "spring cleaning" with addressing some code remnants still around that originated back in the very early Linux v0.1 kernel while some other code being cleaned up dates back to the Linux 1.3~2.1 kernel series from the 90's...
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Calibre 9.7 E-Book Manager Released With Offline HTTPS Content Server Mode

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Calibre 9.7 introduces full offline mode for HTTPS content server connections, improved annotations grouping, viewer zoom enhancements, and several bug fixes.
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Stacking Directories With "pushd" and "popd" Commands for Easy Navigation

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
The pushd and popd commands are ways to efficiently navigate between different directory paths by stacking them in memory and popping them out when they are required using the index number.
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Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizingRed Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
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Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilitiesOpinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…
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F&S M.2 AI Accelerator Uses NXP Ara-240 for Edge Inference Workloads

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
F&S Elektronik Systeme has introduced an M.2 AI accelerator based on the NXP Ara-240, designed to offload inference workloads from embedded systems. It targets edge applications requiring low-latency processing, including machine vision, multimodal inference, and real-time analytics. The accelerator delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance through the Ara-240 architecture, which integrates multiple neural […]
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List of Special Parameters in Bash with Examples

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
In this article, you will learn what the difference is between variables and parameters, what special parameters are, and a list of predefined special parameters in Bash.
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Deepin 25.1 Arrives With Linux Kernel 6.18 and New AI Features

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Deepin 25.1 updates the desktop with Linux kernel 6.18, new UOS AI tools, file manager enhancements, and many fixes.
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KDE Frameworks 6.25 Brings New Fixes and Developer Improvements

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
KDE Frameworks 6.25 is out now with new fixes and maintenance updates for the collection of libraries powering KDE software.
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Raw: Extensive Evidence of Red Hat's Mass Layoffs in China (IBM Meets Geopolitics)

Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Sorry for the families of the "Linux geeks" that IBM has just fired. IBM's management does not understand what it is selling.
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FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated 360 Degree Video Conversion

Fri, 04/10/2026 - 22:20
Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...
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Miracle-WM 0.9 Makes This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Truly Hackable

Fri, 04/10/2026 - 22:20
Miracle-WM 0.9 brings WebAssembly plugins, a new Rust API, cursor theme support, and faster performance for this Mir-based Wayland compositor.
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PipeWire 1.6.3 Improves RAOP Compatibility to Make It Work on More Devices

Fri, 04/10/2026 - 22:20
PipeWire 1.6.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update in the latest PipeWire 1.6 series of this open-source software for handling audio and video streams under Linux-based operating systems.
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