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Collabora’s NVK was the first open-source Vulkan driver graphics driver for NVIDIA hardware that has gotten the Khronos conformance badge on any API. Khronos announced earlier this week the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification and Collabora was quick to offer day-zero Vulkan 1.4 conformance for NVK.

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KDE Frameworks 6.9 introduces refined libraries, bug fixes, improved icon support, and more.

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KDE Gear 24.12 apps collection is a remarkable release, including a revamped Okular, mobile-ready Dolphin, and many more updates to enhance cross-device connections, faster performance, and better visuals.

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Fixing the annoying error “Failed to connect to raw.githubusercontent.com port 443: Connection refused” during the download process from GitHub.

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Discover a step-by-step guide to install the Firefox as a DEB package on an Ubuntu-based distribution without needing the Snap package.

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Coming almost three months after Proton 9.0-3, the Proton 9.0-4 release is to add support for even more Windows games, including Total War: SHOGUN 2, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Welcome to Dustown, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2, ScarQuest, and Hard Chip Demo.

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Sonatype’s 2024 Open Source Malware Threat Report reveals that the number of malicious packages has surpassed 778,500 since tracking began in 2019. In 2024, researchers examined how threat actors leverage malicious open-source packages to target developers, particularly as enterprises increasingly adopt open-source tools to build custom AI models.

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switcherooctl, a lightweight userspace utility, is the recommended solution for managing GPU switching on openSUSE with multiple GPUs.

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Big news for Arch Linux! ALPM, Arch Linux’s packaging ecosystem, received €562K funding from Sovereign Tech Agency to modernize package creation, validation, and verification with Rust-based tooling and libraries.

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CentOS Stream 10 “Coughlan” is now available for download with new features, enhanced Linux kernel 6.12, and support for AMD/Intel, ARM, IBM Power, and IBM Z architectures until 2030.

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One of the best things about Arch is its incredible flexibility and customization options. Learn how to unlock its full potential by installing and switching between different Linux kernels with our guide.

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Learn how to quickly install RQuickShare on major Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Arch, and more.

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The top utility will need little introduction to seasoned Linux users. top is a small utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system.

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Rust is a systems programming language that runs fast, prevents segmentation faults, and guarantees thread safety. We pick the best free Rust frontend web frameworks.

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Twenty years ago, Thunderbird v1.0 took flight. Two decades later, the beloved mail client remains a fantastic email management tool. Happy birthday, Thunderbird!

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Highlights of KDE Gear 24.12 include accessibility and usability improvements for the Dolphin file manager with a revamped main view to work with screen readers, more natural sorting of files, and improved keyboard navigation. Dolphin now also features an overhauled Checksum and Permissions tab in the Properties dialog, and a mobile-optimized interface for Plasma Mobile.

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OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 debuts a new COSMIC Spin, KDE Plasma 6.2, cutting-edge software, and privacy-focused updates.

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GNOME 46.7 is here one and a half months after GNOME 46.6 to improve the accessibility of the keyboard backlight toggle in Quick Settings, default to GPUs with built-in panels connected as the primary GPU, and default to high thread instead of real-time priority for the Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) thread.

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Meet the Raspberry Pi 500: 2.4GHz quad-core, 8GB RAM, $90. Pair with the official $100 monitor for a complete Raspberry Pi desktop experience.

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This week we got lots of great news, starting with the official revealing of Linux 6.12 as an LTS kernel, the NVIDIA 565 graphics driver, Debian 13’s default theme, the end of life of Linux 6.11 and 4.19 kernels, NVK’s Vulkan 1.4 conformance, and Nitrux 3.8 as one of the first distros powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.

On top of that, this week brought us new releases of the Qt Creator IDE, Alpine Linux and openSUSE Leap Micro distros, OBS Studio recording software, and GNOME desktop. Below you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for December 8th, 2024.

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