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The Importance of Strong Technical Communities and Partnerships in Africa

There’s no question that strong, resilient infrastructure is critical for keeping people connected. But we recently saw just how important it is to also have a strong community built up to support Internet infrastructure—and each other.

The Internet and Climate Change

As we celebrate Earth Day 2024, the world seems to be on fire. Quite literally with some regions battling extreme wildfires, while other regions are drowning under massive flooding. Sea levels are rising, temperatures are climbing, and ice is melting. Amid all of this, it’s worth pausing and thinking about the Internet’s relationship with climate change.

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QEMU 9.0 Released with Raspberry Pi 4 Support, LoongArch KVM Acceleration

Highlights of QEMU 9.0 include multi-queue support for the virtio-blk block driver allowing different queues of a single disk to be processed by different I/O threads, the ability to concurrently handle preallocation of memory backends using multiple threads in some cases, and support for the “mapped-ram” capability allowing for more efficient virtual machine snapshots, checkpoint-restart support for VFIO, and improved support for zero-page detection.

EndeavourOS Gemini Lands with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment

Powered by Linux kernel 6.8, EndeavourOS Gemini comes with the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment on both the live environment and the offline installation option. Users can choose between Wayland and X11 sessions from the SDDM login manager, but the former is enabled by default.

Slimbook Fedora 2 Laptops Launch with Fedora Linux 40 Workstation

Featuring a smooth black Magnesium chassis, the Slimbook Fedora 2 laptops are powered by 13th Gen Intel Core i7 13700H processors with 14 cores, 20 threads, 24MB cache, Intel Iris Xe G7 graphics, and up to 5.00 GHz clock speed, and feature NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 dedicated graphics.

Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released with Linux Kernel 6.8, Here’s What’s New

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.8 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 40 release ships with the GNOME 46 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition and the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment for the Fedora KDE Spin, which defaults to the Wayland session as the X11 session was completely removed.

Tails 6.2 Anonymous Linux OS Improves Mitigation of Spectre v4 Vulnerability

Synced with the Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” repositories and powered by Linux kernel 6.1 LTS, the Tails 6.2 release features the latest Tor Browser 13.0.14 anonymous web browser, the Tor 0.4.8.11 client, improved detection of read and write errors when running Tails from a USB stick, and an updated Tails Upgrader utility to make “Upgrade later” the default option.

Linux Firmware Updater Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Support for More Asus and Realtek Devices

Coming two weeks after the fwupd 1.9.16 release, fwupd 1.9.17 is here to introduce support for new devices including the Asus DC201 dual 4K USB-C dock and Realtek Gen1 RTS541x HUB controllers.

Audacity 3.5 Released with Cloud Saving, Beat Detection, Pitch Shifting, and More

Highlights of Audacity 3.5 include a new cloud-saving feature that lets you save your Audacity projects to audio.com so you can access it from any device or more easily share it with others, pitch shifting so you can non-destructively change the pitch of a clip, and automatic tempo detection of imported loops.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 21st, 2024

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LinuxGizmos.com

Unmanned Ground Vehicle Rover for Raspberry Pi 4 & 5 SBCs

Waveshare has introduced the UGV Rover, a platform designed for compatibility with the widely-used Raspberry Pi SBCs, models 4 and 5. This open-source platform is geared towards robotics and navigation applications, equipped with a 5MP camera and Lidar support for an array of programmable functionalities.

Ronetix Expands SoM Series With NXP i.MX93 and Renesas RZ/G2UL Chipsets

Ronetix continues to expand its range of System on Modules (SoMs) with several new products powered by NXP and Renesas processors, addressing a broad spectrum of needs in industrial automation, intelligent energy management, and embedded systems.

Free Software Directory, Free Software Foundation, and the GIMP (GNU)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2022

FSD meeting recap 2022-10-28

Check out the great work our volunteers accomplished at today's Free Software Directory (FSD) IRC meeting.

Every week, free software activists from around the world come together in #fsf on Libera.Chat to help improve the FSD, which is a catalog of useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems (not limited to the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants) and a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This recaps the work we accomplished at the Friday, October 28, 2022 meeting, where we saw a couple of new programs added and several entries updated.
November 16-18: Envelop yourself in stuffing at FSF's fundraiser mailing

Upcoming stuff-a-thon! Help the FSF in its fall fundraiser.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hosting a fall fundraiser mailing and needs your help to make it happen! Please join us from 11:00 to 21:00 EST, November 16, 17, and 18 at our office in Downtown Crossing (51 Franklin St, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02110). When all is said and done, we'll have stuffed 5,000 Bulletins into envelopes destined for members on every continent except Antarctica.

We will need help all day, except for a 13:00 EST lunch break and 18:00 EST dinner break. You can volunteer for many days, one day, a few hours, or however long you wish. Depending on the turnout, we may even finish ahead of schedule, as has happened in years past.
Conference “GIMP and ZeMarmot” in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (France)

Next Friday, the 4th of November 2022, from 6PM to 8PM CET, Aryeom (with her hats of film director of “ZeMarmot” and GIMP contributor) and myself (Jehan, with my hats of main developer/maintainer of GIMP and technical operations in “ZeMarmot”), will host a conference at the Jules Verne library in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (France).

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