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Fedora Linux 43 Beta Released with Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, and KDE Plasma 6.4

Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 43 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 49 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

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The CUDA toolkit provides developers with a parallel computing platform and programming model that uses NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing. Until now, developers had to download CUDA from the NVIDIA website to install it on Ubuntu, but soon that will no longer be the case.

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MKVToolNix 95.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Improves the Chapter Generation Feature

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 30, 2024

Hamsters on Pumpkins

Updated This Past Day

  1. Linux Fork or Community Fork of Linux in Russia
    Russia's Ministry of Digital Development proposes hard Linux kernel fork after Russian Devs banned.
  2. Links 29/10/2024: Election, War, and Monopoly Coverage
    Links for the day

    New

  3. Emilien ("unixfox") Manages to Bring yewtu.be (Big Instance of Invidious) Back
    the future of the Web does not look bright, but workarounds exist and Invidious is one of them

    New

  4. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  5. "Volkswagen refused to help police locate a stolen car with a 2-year-old inside because the owner's subscription fee was not paid."
    Want your infant back? PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION! Volkswagen does the unthinkable

    New

  6. Gemini Links 29/10/2024: Bikepacking Adventures and Citrus Assessment
    Links for the day
  7. [Meme] In Serious Trouble With Law Enforcement (for Trying to Censor People)
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  8. Computer Science Can Outlive This Wave of "AI" Hype
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  9. Gemini Links 29/10/2024: Covid in the Office, Narcolepsy, Node to Node copy (NNCP)
    Links for the day
  10. More on What Caused Volkswagen to Lose So Much Money (Proprietary Software)
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  11. Linus Torvalds is Basically Explaining That OSI, Sponsored by Microsoft to Lobby for Microsoft, is Openwashing a Marketing Scam
    Shame on OSI for helping Microsoft
  12. Gemini Links 29/10/2024: Electric Boogaloo and UCEPROTECTL3
    Links for the day
  13. Links 28/10/2024: TSMC Blunder and Volkswagen Layoffs
    Links for the day
  14. Debian Moving to Static Pages for Everything ("Migrate the Debian Main Website to HuGo")
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  15. [Meme] To 'Cancel' the GPL They Need to Cancel Its Guardian
    And its patron
  16. Techrights Will Only Cover More of What Microsofters Don't Want It to Talk About
    The media can stick to facts, not emotions
  17. IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 28, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, October 28, 2024
  18. Volkswagen's Mass Layoffs Have a Lesson Somewhere (in the 1960s)
    "The German automaker has announced plans that include a 10% reduction in pay across the board for its workers, along with wage freezes in 2025 and 2026."
  19. [Meme] No Cupholders
    Give people more personal time/life. Or better salaries. Then they won't need to eat inside the car.
  20. Focusing on Getting Stuff Done
    GNU/Linux generally makes computer users more productive. It's a force multiplier.
  21. You Know That Microsoft's LinkedIn is Struggling When It Starts Spamming Users and Disguises the Spam as Personal Messages
    Now they ask users to pay money for jobs that don't exist
  22. [Meme] Change the Name, Change History
    "I thought Active Directory was constantly breached. Oh, it's called Entra ID now?"
  23. Rebranding Products/Services/Vapourware as a Sign of Failure
    Whenever Microsoft changes the name of something you know that it's not doing well or it received a lot of negative publicity
  24. [Meme] "Modern" Cars Are Plasticware That May Only Last Years, Not Decades
    They want to sell the same thing over and over again

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-10-23 to 2024-10-29
    2043 /n/2024/10/23/A_Severe_Linux_Foundation_Conflict_of_Interest_Microsoft_Staff_.shtml
    1408 /n/2024/10/24/How_Microsoft_Attacks_Critics_and_Competition.shtml
    1371 /n/2024/10/27/Guest_Contribution_Open_Software_is_Not_Open_Source.shtml
    1342 /n/2024/10/28/GNU_Linux_Started_as_Platform_About_Liberation_Freedom_Autonomy.shtml
    684 /n/2024/10/24/Links_24_10_2024_Apple_Fines_and_Vision_Pro_Shows_Signs_of_Dyin.shtml
    641 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml
    620 /n/2024/10/28/Online_Hate_Group_Wipe_Out_the_Entire_Board_of_the_FSF_and_Appo.shtml
    618 /n/2024/10/26/Public_First_Ltd_as_a_Snake_Inside_the_British_Government_Shoeh.shtml
    617 /n/2024/10/27/Links_26_10_2024_Open_Source_on_Its_Own_is_no_Alternative_to_Bi.shtml
    605 /n/2024/10/26/Drew_Earned_Himself_a_Meme_for_His_Latest_Attack_on_the_Founder.shtml
    592 /n/2024/10/26/Links_26_10_2024_Surrealism_at_100_ChatGPT_Plagiarism_Highlight.shtml
    583 /n/2024/06/23/Microsoft_Inside_Debian_is_Sabotaging_Debian_and_Its_Many_Hundr.shtml
    562 /n/2024/10/25/Mono_Was_Always_Just_a_Front_of_Microsoft.shtml
    552 /n/2024/10/25/China_Has_Bypassed_Sanctions_by_Making_Its_Own_Operating_System.shtml
    549 /n/2024/10/24/To_Linux_Foundation_Bill_Gates_is_a_Saint_and_Every_Russian_Dev.shtml
    544 /n/2024/10/25/No_Microsoft_You_Cannot_Silence_Techrights.shtml
    544 /n/2024/10/25/What_It_Means_When_All_Russians_Get_Banned_From_All_Free_Softwa.shtml
    530 /n/2024/10/25/NSA_is_NOT_Obama_NSA_is_Harry_S_Truman.shtml
    527 /n/2024/10/26/Links_25_10_2024_Harald_Welte_Back_to_Taiwan_Military_Targets_i.shtml
    507 /n/2024/10/27/New_Site_drewdevault_report_org.shtml

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