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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.

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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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  1. ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Growing in Spain (Almost 10% Now)
    Whether this persists next month and next year will certainly matter
  2. [Meme] It Takes Only Words to Destroy Malicious People and Pathological Liars
    Trying to silence us is foolish. Boasting about this in public is worse than foolish; it's a legal liability.
  3. WordPress is Unfit for Purpose in 2024
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  4. Nobody Knows What's in Our Fridge! Wow, Spooky!
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  5. Gemini Links 11/11/2024: Closed Systems and Verify You Are Human To Continue
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  6. Running Twitter at a Loss and Then Profiting From Trumpism
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  7. Microsoft, Which Benefits From Donald Trump, is Normalising Donald Trump
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  8. When You Upload Talks of Richard Stallman to Proprietary YouTube
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  9. Free Software is Probably a Lot Healthier for You
    Does Free software help people live longer and/or live better for longer?
  10. Sweden: ChromeOS + GNU/Linux at 17%, an All-Time High
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  11. Windows Collapsed to Only 12% of the Operating Systems Market in India, Says statCounter
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  12. Links 11/11/2024: Mastodon Year 2 in Review, Freshworks Laying Off 13% of Staff
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  13. [Video] Daniel Pocock Warning About Someone Like Elon Musk Buying and Misusing Twitter Almost 7 Years Ago
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  14. Dead Blog ('Hoisted By His Own Petard')
    The saying "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is also applicable here
  15. Debian Voters Clearly Supportive of Richard Stallman (Founder of GNU/Linux), But Debian Leaders Keep Giving Voting Rights to Microsoft Staff
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  16. [Meme] Remember That Microsoft and Trump Already Have a "Targets List"
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  17. Service Notice: IRC Downtimes RESOLVED
    We believe we've solved this entirely (or hope so), but it may take another week to know for sure
  18. Linux 'Not Inclusive' 6.12 (Trumpism Inside Linux Foundation Affirmed)
    They can make a codename for this release: Linux 'Not Inclusive' 6.12
  19. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Dead. Cause of Death: Microsoft Bribes.
    At the core, Linux Foundation and OSI adopted lies as a business model
  20. Joan Meyer correctly linked Gideon Cody raid on Marion County Record to Kristallnacht
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  21. Trans People Misused to Attack a Project or Developer Who Has Nothing to Do With Them
    And why that truly hurts all trans people
  22. Our 18+ Years of Freedom-Fighting
    We always fight back
  23. Gemini Links 11/11/2024: Men Losing Grip and "You're Relaxing Wrong"
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  24. Over at Tux Machines...
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  25. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 10, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, November 10, 2024
  26. Freedom Must Always Be Fought For (All the Time)
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