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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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Peppermint OS Rebased on Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 14, 2025

Quoting: Peppermint OS Rebased on Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available —

The Peppermint OS team has announced the release of its latest flagship edition, now rebased on Debian 13 “Trixie”, powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and the lightweight XFCE 4.20 desktop environment.

This release comes fully 64-bit and stays close to Peppermint’s minimalist philosophy. Instead of shipping with a long list of preinstalled applications, it lets users pick only what they need through its “Suggested Packages” interface. That tool has now been reworked—it uses simple toggle switches to install or skip apps without requiring terminal interaction.

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