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PHP Proposes Switch to BSD-3-Clause License

Linux News - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 18:18
PHP may drop its legacy license in favor of BSD 3-Clause in version 9.0, thereby enhancing compatibility and simplifying distribution rights.
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Former Google DeepMind engineer says other AI agents are doing it wrong

Linux News - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 18:18
Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fillWhen Ang Li, co-founder of agent software biz Simular, started working at Google DeepMind in 2017, software engineers at the search giant were skeptical about the usefulness of machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI) as it has come to be called.…
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Blender 4.5 LTS Arrives with Major UI Overhaul, Animation Improvements

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D creation suite delivers major updates in animation, geometry nodes, Grease Pencil, Vulkan rendering, and improved UI.
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LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin "BTC" as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software office suite...
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Brave Now Has 59% as Many Users as Firefox Worldwide

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
Today, Brave browser is taking a huge chunk of Firefox’s market share, and few seem to care or notice.
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KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Desktop Environment Released

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 introduces important fixes for KWin, Discover, and Spectacle, along with translation updates and enhanced accessibility.
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Just Say No to Overcomplicated Cars

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
The Mustang Mach-E recall isn’t just a glitch—it’s a sign that sometimes, the best solutions are the ones we’ve left behind.
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New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. While having many successes over the past two decades, the kernel modules remain outside of the kernel tree. Even with around four different upstreaming attempts to get the LTTng code into the mainline kernel, it still has not happened. A fifth attempt began today but still looks like it could be an uphill battle...
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Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...
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IceWM 3.8.1 Window Manager Released with Toolbar Improvements

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
IceWM 3.8 window manager for the X Window System brings memory usage optimizations, improved toolbar behavior, and more.
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Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 4000 graphics processors...
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Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Expected Soon, Focus Shifts to LMDE 7

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
LMDE 7 is officially named “Gigi” and will feature OEM install support along with all the enhancements introduced in Linux Mint 22.2.
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GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot itGParted Live is a tiny live CD image that can copy, move, and resize partitions. It can be a lifesaver – but not for i686 any more.…
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NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
Following the recent launch of the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC introduces the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration. While the R3S LTS (based on RK3566) targets lightweight routing tasks, the R76S steps up […]
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Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available

Linux News - Tue, 07/15/2025 - 22:20
Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...
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(Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment

Linux News - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 22:20
PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.99, the device is aimed at developers and testers, and comes preloaded with a 7 billion parameter LLM running in a Docker container. The ALPHA-One is built on the StarPro64 SBC, which features the […]
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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28 (Jul 7 – 13, 2025)

Linux News - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 22:20
Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, Krita 5.2.10, OBS Studio 31.1, Plasma 6.3.6, KDE ISO Image Writer, Amarok 3.3, Thunderbird 140, Red Hat offers free RHEL access, and more.
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Slashdot Media Turned Linux Journal Into a Slopfarm and Now Slashdot Actively Promotes Anti-Linux Slopfarms

Linux News - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 22:20
This is not a new problem. Later on respected people (like Bruce Schneier, who follows Slashdot) would not only link to slop but also based articles on the slop they saw in Slashdot.
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Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone

Linux News - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 22:20
Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the second iteration of those enablement patches...
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NordVPN Now Has a Graphical Linux Client and We Gave It a Look

Linux News - Mon, 07/14/2025 - 22:20
In May, NordVPN got full scale on board with Linux when it released a Linux client. We just took it for a spin!
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