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Blender 5.0 Beta Officially Released with HDR and Wide Gamut Display Support

Blender 5.0 promises exciting changes like support for displaying HDR and wide gamut colors, a working color space for Blend files, new Rec.2100-PQ and Rec.2100-HLG displays, new ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views, a new AgX HDR view, a new Convert to Display compositor node, and a new volume rendering algorithm based on null scattering.

Firefox 144 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

Firefox 144 is here to improve the Picture-in-Picture feature by allowing you to close the PiP window without pausing the video using Shift + Click on the close button or Shift + Esc to exit, update the Firefox Account button on the toolbar to show “Sign In” next to the icon, and to strengthen the encryption used for logins saved in the Firefox Password Manager with a more modern encryption scheme.

How to Upgrade LMDE 6 to LMDE 7

Dubbed “Gigi” and based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 has arrived with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, support for OEM installations, and the Cinnamon 6.4.13 desktop environment featuring fingerprint authentication, updated themes, and an improved Wayland session.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 12th, 2025

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.18 Release Candidate

Today marks two weeks since Linux kernel 6.17 was released and the merge window for Linux kernel 6.18 was opened, which means that it is time to test drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions during the next couple of months, the first one being available for download right now from Linus Torvalds’ git tree.

Linux Kernel 6.16 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.17

Released on July 28th, 2025, Linux kernel 6.16 introduced new features like initial support for Intel Trusted Domain Extensions, support for Intel APX (Advanced Performance Extensions), USB offload support for audio devices, support for sending coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket, and an automatic auto-tuning weighted interleaved memory allocation policy.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Even LKML Subjected to Slop/SPAM by Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com)
    They're really awful
  2. What Makes RMS Such an Attractive Target ('Discreditisation' Campaigns)
    Don't be so easily fooled
  3. The Biggest OEMs or Vendors of GNU/Linux Stopped Competing With Microsoft (Which Pays Them to Promote Windows, Too)
    Where are the competition authorities (or regulators for that matter)?
  4. Would You Trust a Liar?
    Why lie about the authorship?

    New

  5. Links 06/11/2024: BPF in RFC 9669, More Facebook Fines for Privacy Abuses
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 06/11/2024: Political Shock and Hermaic Encouragement
    Links for the day
  7. Planet Debian Allows Politics (But It Depends on Your Opinions and Debian's Big Sponsors)
    Planet Debian is OK with politics... as long as all your political opinions are the "correct" ones and you add cute animals
  8. Let's Encrypt Falls to a New Low of Only 0.6% of Gemini Capsules Known to Lupa
    In Gemini Protocol, certificates for encryption are required, but centralised Certificate Authorities (CAs) aren't needed
  9. Computer-Generator Crap Flooding the Web, the Latest Example About "Linux"
    Here's today's example
  10. Links 06/11/2024: Election Disinformation and Legal Actions
    Links for the day
  11. Gemini Links 06/11/2024: Stargazing and Death on Hallowe'en
    Links for the day
  12. Mass Layoffs at Mozilla Announced During US Elections
    Maybe nobody will notice?
  13. [Meme] Announcing "Results" Before Everyone Even "Played"
    There is a "tech" angle to otherwise political news
  14. US Polls Close in One Minute (Social Control Media Does Not Care, Will Not Wait)
    US election results will be known in about 2 days
  15. Concentration and Centralisation Versus Aggregation or Syndication
    KDE has a history of burying old sites
  16. Social Control Media, Even Hours Before Polls Have Closed
    Has social control media controlled by CPC (TikTok) and the Trumpmobile guy (Musk's "X") done enough to convince people not to even vote (based on presumptive "results", presented a long time before all polls have closed)?
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 05, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 05, 2024
  19. Wayland Pains in Community-Led Distros of GNU/Linux
    Few people and companies use Wayland; there's hardly any technical or practical reason to choose it
  20. IBM Still Conflating Microsoft With 'Security'
    As a meme
  21. Sanctions Cause Fragmentation in Software
    some Chinese Linux developers are already subjected to restrictions similar to Russians'
  22. Web Failing With Slop, Even in 'Linux' Sites (LLM Spam)
    Add SEO prompting to the mix and the Web becomes a pool of slop, not knowledge
  23. [Meme] State of the World Wide Web and Online Journalism
    Technically a failure (DRM) and cannot even get basic things right
  24. Trump's signature policy, building a wall, copied from Irish-Australian student politician
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  25. Linus Torvalds' self-deprecating LKML CoC mail linked to Hitler's first writing: Gemlich letter
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  26. [Meme] Turning 18 in One Day
    just one more day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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    984 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml
    802 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml
    677 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml
    668 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml
    579 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_TSMC_Concerns_and_North_Koreans_in_Ukraine_War.shtml
    577 /n/2024/11/01/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_V.shtml
    570 /n/2024/11/04/Saving_the_Planet_With_Honesty_Transparency_and_Sharing_Not_Onl.shtml
    540 /n/2024/11/01/Links_01_11_2024_Few_Things_Are_Cheaper_Than_This_Antenna_and_N.shtml
    529 /n/2024/11/06/Mass_Layoffs_at_Mozilla_Announced_During_US_Elections.shtml
    524 /n/2024/11/03/Streisand_Effect_at_IBM.shtml
    524 /n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml
    517 /n/2024/10/31/Facebook_is_for_Zombies.shtml
    514 /n/2024/10/25/Links_25_10_2024_Erosion_of_Trust_Online_and_Disability_Rights.shtml
    512 /n/2024/11/04/Active_as_in_One_URL_One_Emoji_and_4_Words_in_One_Week.shtml

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Brett Wilson LLP Has Basically Just Admitted It Had Breached Civil Procedure Rules in Frivolous Case Against Tux Machines [original]
We'll have plenty of time to write about the specifics
Investigative Journalism in Debian and the Wider Free Software Community [original]
There's a whole lot of abuse going on there
Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.18 Release Candidate
Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel series.
How Not to Silence Tux Machines (It'll Only Backfire, Badly) [original]
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Daniel Pocock Has Three New Articles About Bedroom Nepotism in the Debian Project [original]
Pocock is being demonised for the same reasons and by the same people who attack RMS
 
Blender 5.0 Beta Officially Released with HDR and Wide Gamut Display Support
Blender 5.0 has entered public beta testing today for this free and open source 3D creation suite designed for modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and video editing.
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How to Upgrade LMDE 6 to LMDE 7
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getting closer now
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Next month calm will increase
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LineageOS releases Android 16 update despite challenges with Android source code
Solus Begins a New Epoch with Polaris Repository and Python 2 Removal
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MocaccinoOS – minimal Linux meta-distribution
MocaccinoOS uses Luet as a package manager, which is completely static and fully based on containers
Murena – smartphone OS
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Brett Wilson LLP, the Firm That Lodged a Frivolous Lawsuit Against Tux Machines (for Talking About Abuses and Hate Crimes Committed Against Tux Machines), Got Sued by Its Very Own Clients [original]
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Linux Kernel 6.16 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.17
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