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NVK Achieves Day-Zero Support for Vulkan 1.4

The Khronos Group recently announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification, and NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware, has achieved day-zero conformance with the latest API. This support has been integrated into Mesa and will be available in the upcoming Mesa 25.0 release, scheduled for early 2025.

Low-Cost ESP32-PICO-D4 Board with LoRa, Wi-Fi, and BLE Connectivity

Unlike other LILYGO products with LoRa support, such as the T5 E-Paper S3 Pro, the T3 S3 LR1121, and the T-Deck Plus, this device incorporates the ESP32-PICO-D4 SoC, which includes Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.2 BR/EDR, Bluetooth LE functionalities, and 4MB Quad-SPI flash memory.

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Nitrux 3.8 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12, Better Support for NVIDIA Users

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Qt Creator 15 Open-Source IDE Released with Axivion Support, New Themes

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 1st, 2024

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.13 Release Candidate

Today marks two weeks since Linux 6.13’s merge window was opened, on the same day Linux kernel 6.12 was released, which means that it’s time to test drive the RC (Release Candidate) versions, the first one being available for download right now from Linus Torvalds’ git tree here or the kernel.org website.

HandBrake 1.9 Adds Support for Lossless VP9 Encoding, Intel QSV VVC Decoder

HandBrake 1.9 is here more than six months after HandBrake 1.8 and introduces an Intel QSV VVC hardware video decoder, support for lossless VP9 encoding, an ALAC audio encoder, Vorbis pass-through support, and a new option to enable AV1 screen content coding (SCC) on the Intel Lunar Lake QSV AV1 encoder.

Last Arch Linux ISO Release for 2024 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12 and Archinstall 3.0

Arch Linux 2024.12.01 is out now as the first Arch Linux ISO snapshot to include the latest and greatest Linux 6.12 kernel series by default, which should give you a boost when detecting hardware, especially on newer devices but also older ones where previous Arch Linux ISOs didn’t detect some of your components.

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Arti 1.3.1 is released: onion services, RPC, relay development, and more

This release continues development on Arti Relay and the RPC subsystem, and adds the initial scaffolding for service-side proof-of-work support. It also contains a number of bugfixes, cleanups, as well as improvements to our CI infrastructure.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 03, 2024

12 Best Free and Open Source GUI-Based Calendar Software - LinuxLinks

As with countless other tools, you don’t need a proprietary hosted solution for your calendar needs. There might just be an open source project that’s a perfect fit.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 12 high quality open source graphical-based calendar software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to manage their daily activities.
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Firefly - LinuxLinks

Adobe Firefly is software which uses generative AI and simple text prompts to generate images. Its Firefly generative AI models are trained on licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, along with public domain content where copyright has expired, and images from Wikimedia.

Adobe Firefly is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend free and open source alternatives that run under Linux.
Damask - automatically set wallpaper images - LinuxLinks

Damask is a simple utility that automatically sets wallpaper images by selecting images from a variety of sources, including local files and folders.

It supports slideshows sorted randomly, by name, or by creation date.

This is free and open source software.

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