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More than two years in the making, Debian 13 “Trixie” is finally here, powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, which brings new and updated drivers to support modern hardware. Linux kernel 6.12 LTS will be officially supported with bug and security updates until December 2026.
Highlights of HandBrake 1.10 include new “Social 10MB” presets, a new option to choose the encoder color range, a new command-line option to disable Dolby Vision and HDR10+ passthru, a new option to disable audio track names passthru and autonaming, updated NVEnc CQ range, and a new option to disable subtitle track names passthru.
PeaZip 10.6 is here almost two months after PeaZip 10.5 introducing a dynamic virtual mode to the file/archive browser for the ListView component, promising to improve the performance of the application when displaying a large number of items at once.
The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue with KDE Frameworks 6.17, a release that slightly improves performance and efficiency for all QtQuick-based KDE apps, including Plasma apps like System Settings, Plasma Discover, and Spectacle.
Based on the soon-to-be-released Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, Tails 7.0 will be shipping with the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment by default, featuring the GNOME Console and GNOME Loupe apps.
GStreamer 1.26.5 is here to introduce JPEG XS support to the videorate and imagefreeze elements, support for discarding select services on each input to cea708mux, and support for brevity in awstranslate, along with an option to partition speakers in the transcription output of awstranscriber2.
Calibre 8.8 comes with an updated Kobo driver that supports the latest Tolino firmware, improved display of lookup results from Google in the E-book viewer, and the ability to handle -epub-text-emphasis properties used in some Japanese language EPUB books during conversion.
The ocean is full of wonders, mysterious and mostly uncharted. We don’t know what we’ll find when we start diving deeper and deeper. It’s fascinating and also a little scary. On occasion, the Internet can be a little scary, too; many times, we don’t know what or who we are going to find in its depths. But sometimes, you find something really special.
After three years since the launch of the original VisionFive 2, StarFive has introduced another device, the VisionFive 2 Lite. The company has launched a campaign on Kickstarter for this cost-effective RISC-V single board computer, aimed at applications in education, AIoT, smart home, and IIoT.
Two weeks ago my wife Rianne complained that Linuxiac had resorted to LLM slop. I contacted the editor of the site and things have improved since.
We are now going to link to Linuxiac (as before). █