Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver.
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
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Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
Garuda Linux has introduced the first ISO builds of its COSMIC offering. Users can test out what it has to offer.
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
As you scroll through social media, the posts blend together: a heroic cat, a shocking statistic, a breaking news clip. But in a world where AI blurs the line between fact and fiction, how do you tell what’s real from what’s misinformation?
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.3.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series to address more of those pesky issues and also add some enhancements.
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
Fedora Linux 43 may ship with RPM 6, bringing enhanced security features like enforced signature checking and multiple signatures per package.
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler... The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 192 open-source hardened Linux firewall has been released today, and it’s now available for download, with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and other interesting changes.
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
The process is simple. You first create a model or download one. Then you slice the model and save it. And finally you print the file. Linux offers a good range of open source software to help you create models as well as software to edit and slice the 3D model files.
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
This blog post will explain everything about the 429 Too Many Requests Error. From how it can occur, the reason for that, and the possible fixes. The “429 too many requests” is an HTTP response. It comes from the server when too many consecutive requests are sent to the server quickly. The server tells you “to stop sending requests” for a while and try again later. In this case, the client exceeded the rate limit set on a server level.
Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:20
First new version in about five years, but it's who did it that matters more. The WINE project has put out its first release of Mono, the original FOSS .NET runtime, since it took the project over from Microsoft six months ago.