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Darktable 5.0 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Darktable 5.0 brings major UI/UX improvements like camera-specific styles for more than 500 camera models to more closely approximate the out-of-camera JPEG rendition, an optional splash screen showing startup progress, a high-contrast theme with bright white text on a dark gray background, more new-user hints on an empty Lighttable, and a global preference to swap the left and right side panels in the darkroom view.

CachyOS Now Uses AutoFDO Kernel as Default Across All Supported Architectures

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, the CachyOS release for December 2024 enables AutoFDO (Automatic Feedback-Directed Optimization) for the default linux-cachyos kernel on all supported architectures for a slight performance boost.

Debian-Based Grml 2024.12 Linux Distro Is Out with Support for 64-Bit ARM CPUs

Based on the software repositories of the upcoming Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series (a.k.a. Debian Testing) and powered by Linux kernel 6.11, the Grml 2024.12 (codename “Adventgrenze“) release is here to introduce support for 64-bit ARM AArch64 (ARM64) architectures, UEFI 32-bit boot to support 64-bit PCs with 32-bit firmware, and a new Grml flavour naming schema.

DXVK 2.5.2 Improves Support for Alpha Protocol, Borderlands 2, and Other Games

DXVK 2.5.2 is here to add an implementation of D3D9 shader validation interfaces, which is needed for The Void and several other D3D9 games, add support for VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM to fix warnings in various games, as well as rendering issues in TopSpin 2K25, and optimize the behavior of disabled clip planes for D3D9 games.

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Progress and Future Plans for Upstream Support of Rockchip RK3588

As 2024 concludes, the Rockchip RK3588 platform has seen substantial progress in upstream support. Collabora’s latest announcement highlights advancements in kernel integration, hardware enablement, and foundational software, driven by the open-source community.

$6.80 LILYGO T7-C6 Board Leverages RISC-V Single-Core Processor & 4MB Integrated Flash Memory

The LILYGO T7-C6 is a compact development board built around the ESP32-C6-MINI-1 module, offering versatile features designed for IoT and wireless communication applications. The board is available with either an onboard PCB antenna or an external antenna and supports modern wireless protocols, including 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 (LE), and IEEE 802.15.4.

GNOME 46 Release Schedule, Free Software Contributions to GNOME, and This Week in GNOME

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2023

GNOME 46 Release Schedule is Now Online

With GNOME 45 released (though point releases will continue) development attention now turns to its follow-up, namely GNOME 46.
Bilal Elmoussaoui: The journey of an open source contributor

In early 2019, the GNOME project migrated to GitLab which for someone unfamiliar at that time with submitting patches by email it was the perfect timing to get involved.

I started from the very bottom of the stack by contributing to the Appdata/Metainfo files of various applications. If you are not familiar with such files, they are used to describe the application to the Application Store by providing a name, screenshots, various links and release notes.
This Week in GNOME | Felix Häcker: #115 Modern Monitoring

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 22 to September 29.

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The long awaited port of GNOME System Monitor to GTK 4 has finally arrived! The porting effort focused on keeping the UI as close to the original but still minor enhancements can be seen. The port comes early in the new development cycle which gives us the opportunity to find possible bugs and make use of the new stylish widgetry in GTK 4 and libadwaita.

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