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The System76 Thelio Astra is an ARM64 machine designed for developers working on autonomous vehicles (AV), automotive safety systems (ADAS), and software-defined vehicle (SDV) development, for native testing and simulation on the same architecture as ARM-based automotive ECUs (Electronic Control Units).

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OpenSSL 3.4 brings new cryptographic features, including integrity-only cipher suites for TLS 1.3, ECC optimizations, and FIPS provider updates.

The post OpenSSL 3.4 Introduces New APIs, FIPS Updates appeared first on Linux Today.

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2024 is available.

PocketPal AI is an Open source AI Assistant that lets you interact with various small language models (SLMs) directly on your smartphone, even without an internet connection.

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System76 and Ampere introduce Thelio Astra, an arm64 desktop built for autonomous driving, ADAS, and SDV developers.

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AlmaLinux Kitten preview offers a sneak peek into AlmaLinux’s next major 10 release with x86-64-v2 support, Secure Boot, and more.

The post AlmaLinux Kitten 10: Early Access for Community Builders appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn about the new features of the Fedora 41 release workstation edition.

The post Fedora 41: Best New Features (Workstation Edition) appeared first on Linux Today.

GNOME 47.1 is here to improve Quick Settings accessibility, improve the accuracy of inset box shadows, fix uneven padding in notification headers, fix layout issues with the new dialog style, add accent color support in the tablet configuration UI, improve detection of preferred primary devices, fix explicit sync with virtual monitors without PipeWire streams, improve grabbing of tablet devices.

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BoxBuddy is a graphical user interface for Distrobox, a container wrapping layer that lets users install containerised versions of Linux.

The post BoxBuddy – graphical manager for Distrobox appeared first on Linux Today.

Parrot (formerly Parrot Security OS) is a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution featuring a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. The product, developed by Frozenbox, comes with MATE as the default desktop environment.

Big Blue’s Granite LLMs are built for business and now they’re available under the good old Apache 2.0 license.

The post IBM Doubles Down on Open Source AI with New Granite 3.0 Models appeared first on Linux Today.

Several Russian Maintainers removed from the Linux Kernel due to Compliance Concerns. Is nationality the new criteria for contributing to Linux?

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Currently in Rust, there is no efficient and safe way to turn an array of bytes into a structure that corresponds to the array. Changing that was the topic of Jack Wrenn's talk this year at RustConf: "Safety Goggles for Alchemists". The goal is to be able to "transmute" — Rust's name for this kind of conversion — values into arbitrary user-defined types in a safer way. Wrenn justified the approach that the project has taken to accomplish this, and spoke about the future work required to stabilize it.

Parrot OS 6.2 is here more than four and a half months after Parrot OS 6.1 to introduce a new tool called Rocket, which can be used to launch Docker containers, specifically some security tools from the Parrot OS repository on Docker Hub. Rocket is written entirely in Python using PyQt6 for the graphical user interface.

The post Parrot OS 6.2 Ethical Hacking Distro Introduces Launcher for Docker Containers appeared first on Linux Today.

Based on the Mozilla Firefox 128 ESR (Extended Support Release) series, Tor Browser 14.0 comes with updated typography including heavier headings and line heights to improve font compatibility and accessibility, as well as improved usability and compatibility of fingerprinting protections to enable useful features like picture-in-picture, screenshots, and others.

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Version 14.0 of the privacy-focused Tor browser has been released.

This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 128, incorporating a year's worth of changes shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit, where we reviewed and addressed over 200 Bugzilla issues for changes in Firefox that may negatively affect the privacy and security of Tor Browser users. Our final reports from this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec repository on our Gitlab instance.

PipeWire 1.0.9 multimedia framework is a bugfix update compatible with 1.0.x series, fixing fd leaks, mixer sync issues, and more.

The post PipeWire 1.0.9 Addresses Audio Sync and Memory Leaks appeared first on Linux Today.

Jakub Kadlčík announced on his blog that Fedora's Copr build system will be dropping support for building modules (groups of RPM packages that are built, installed, and shipped together) soon:

The Fedora Modularity project never really took off, and building modules in Copr even less so. We've had only 14 builds in the last two years. It's not feasible to maintain the code for so few users. Modularity has also been retired since Fedora 39 and will die with RHEL 9.

Modularity features in Copr are now deprecated, and it will not be possible to submit new module builds after April 2025. LWN covered some of the problems with Fedora's modularity initiative in 2019.

OBS Studio announces structured versioning with Semantic Versioning, aiming for better clarity in future updates.

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