Tux Machines
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This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
The round officially closed on June 19th, and the results give us reason to be encouraged. Today, we can share that the community showed up: more than $200,000 USD has been raised in total, with $174,536 being distributed to participating grantee projects.
Coming three weeks after COSMIC 1.5, the COSMIC 1.6 release adds support for the wl-dmabuf-v6 Wayland protocol for passing direct memory buffers (dma-buf) between clients and compositors, and adds support for the EI (Emulated Input) Wayland protocol to simulate hardware input devices, such as keyboards and mice.
Firefox 155 promises support for Happy Eyeballs v3 for faster page loading, the ability to reorder containers in Settings, support for Nintendo Switch Pro and compatible aftermarket controllers on Windows, and support for showing how many trackers it has blocked in the address bar.
Coming a month after VirtualBox 7.2.14, the VirtualBox 7.2.16 release improves shared clipboard handling in Wayland for Linux hosts and guests, improves support for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 9.8 kernels for Linux guests, and introduces support for FRED on Linux hosts.
Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 154 include an optional system tray mode that hides the main window when the last window closes, a “Copy To” right-click context menu on folders for message/rfc822 attachments, and support for dragging message/rfc822 type MIME attachments to the folder tree.
As reported last month, TUXEDO Computers is currently working on rebasing its Ubuntu-based TUXEDO OS on Debian Testing, ditching Ubuntu altogether. The Debian-based TUXEDO OS will still use the KDE Plasma desktop environment tweaked by TUXEDO Computers, so users won’t notice any visible change.
Highlights of Firefox 154 include a new “Manage AI” quick action in the address bar that makes it easier to open the AI section of Settings, support for clearing and updating cached favicons when performing a hard reload on a web page, and the ability to highlight selected text in PDFs like in normal web pages.
Based on the recently released Linux 7.2 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 7.2 kernel is here to clean up blob names in the amdgpu, nova core, qcom iris and q6v5, iwlwifi, amdxnda, adreno, r8152, and mt792x drivers, adjust the firmware loading interfaces, and drop the cleanup of the hci bt3c driver as it was removed upstream.
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GeForce NOW ships as a stable release built on feedback gathered from the Linux gaming community. The app offers support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later, and NVIDIA has added a Flatpak repository to make installation and future updates simpler for Linux gamers using GeForce NOW.
DFRobot is offering two MXM GPU Carrier Board Kits for the LattePanda Mu compute module, with configurations based on either an Intel Arc A380 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 MXM graphics card. Both kits support up to six independent 4K displays, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.2 Gen2, M.2 expansion, and LattePanda Mu compute modules.
Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF93M1 Development Kit is now available through multiple distributors, providing a platform for evaluating the company’s nRF93M1 LTE Cat 1 bis cellular module. The board combines the modem with an nRF54L15 host MCU and includes USB-C, onboard J-Link debugging, power-measurement support, and a preloaded SIM card.
Crowd Supply recently featured the USBridge-KVM 2.0, a compact IP-KVM designed for remote system administration, debugging, and bare-metal recovery. The device provides HDMI video capture, USB keyboard and mouse emulation, virtual media, hardware power control, BIOS text recognition, and an integrated display while operating independently of the target computer’s operating system.
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