Mozilla Firefox 130 Released with Labs, Overscroll & Web Codecs API

Mozilla Firefox 130 is out with a variety of changes that make this phenomenally popular open-source web browser a touch more productive. On Linux, Firefox 130 enables overscroll animations by default, having added them on other platforms a few years back. This is a familiar visual effect from mobile systems: when you try to scroll beyond the edge content an elastic animation indicates “nu-uh”. To save anyone being confused, the new (on Linux) Firefox over-scroll animations only play if you’re using a touchpad/trackpad to overscroll. You won’t see the effect if using a mouse.

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Deepin 23 Officially Released

After 3 years of preparation, 9 iterations, and 51 internal tests, deepin 23 has finally been released today, 15 August 2024, and we have set a lot of ambitious goals for deepin 23 since 2022, and we have already made significant breakthroughs and achievements in many areas, with many regrets!

Since 2022, we've set a lot of ambitious goals for deepin 23, and we've already made significant breakthroughs and achievements in a number of areas, as well as a lot of regrets. We have a lot to say at this stage of our journey: ‘Words after the Release of deepin 23 / Liu Wenhuan, deepin community founder’.

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Red Hat unleashes Enterprise Linux AI - and it's truly useful

Red Hat has officially launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AI into general availability. This isn't just another product release; it's a truly useful AI approach that RHEL administrators and programmers will find exceptionally helpful. 
RHEL AI is meant to simplify enterprise-wide adoption by offering a fully optimized, bootable RHEL image for server deployments across hybrid cloud environments. These optimized bootable model runtime instances work with Granite models and InstructLab tooling packages. They include optimized Pytorch runtime libraries and GPU accelerators for AMD Instinct MI300X, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs, and NeMo frameworks.

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Intel Graphics Driver With Linux 6.12 Will Finally Report Fan Speeds

Intel has submitted more kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle. Following the pull requests to DRM-Next last week to enable Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics and Battlemage by default, some more lingering feature patches were merged today. Most exciting with this last round of patches before Linux 6.12? Intel graphics card fan speed reporting is finally wired up for their Linux driver.

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GNOME 47.RC (Release Candidate) is out for public testing now

Important links:
• List of updated modules and changes 477.
• Download the GNOME 47.rc sources. 21. You can use the official BuildStream project snapshot 15 to compile GNOME 47.rc yourself
• For application developers, you can use the 47beta branch of the flatpak runtimes, which is available on Flathub beta.
• Also, an installer image 50 is available for testing and porting extensions.

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KDE Slimbook Plasma VI Linux Ultrabook Launches with AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

Specifications:
• Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 5.1GHz, 24MB cache)
• Graphics (GPU): AMD Radeon 780M (12 cores, RDNA 3)
• Neural Processing Unit (NPU): Up to 10 TOPS (AI support)
• RAM: Up to 96GB DDR5 (5600MHz, non-soldered)
• Storage: Up to 8TB NVMe SSD
• Display: 16-inch WQXGA matte IPS, 16:10 aspect ratio, 2K resolution (2560x1600px), 400 nits brightness, 100% sRGB color coverage, 120Hz refresh rate
• Battery: 80Wh
Chassis: Aluminium


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Kali Linux 2024.3 Adds 11 New Hacking Tools, Improves Raspberry Pi Support

Offensive Security announced today the release and general availability of Kali Linux 2024.3 as the latest live and installation media of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing.

Coming more than three months after Kali Linux 2024.2, the Kali Linux 2024.3 release introduces 11 new tools, including graudit for source code auditing, gsocket for communication between two machines on different networks, hekatomb for extracting and decrypting all credentials from all domain computers, mxcheck for scanning e-mail servers, and sqlmc for checking all URLs of a domain for SQL injections.

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A New Default Cinnamon Theme and Linux Mint Tweaks Announced
Linux Mint, popular for beginners switching from Windows, continues to evolve. Earlier this year, Linux Mint 22 was released, based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, featuring upgrades like a new Cinnamon version and a recent Linux kernel. Recently, project leader Clement Lefebvre announced upcoming changes, including a design upgrade for the Cinnamon desktop’s Mint-X theme, making it more modern. Developers have also tackled issues with upgrading from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22, resolved package conflicts, and streamlined APT libraries. Additionally, repository servers now offer faster downloads, and LMDE 5 has reached its end-of-life.


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Fedora Linux 41 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.11 and GNOME 47

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.11 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 41 beta is here to showcase the soon-to-be-released GNOME 47 desktop environment on the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, which is now Wayland-only and once again supports installing the NVIDIA drivers with Secure Boot enabled, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Spin.
Fedora Linux 41 finally switches to DNF5 for a faster and more enhanced package management experience, enables systemd service hardening features for default system services to improve security, accelerates the GnuTLS implementation with software Kernel TLS (KTLS), adds ROCm 6.2 for AMD users, and enables bootupd for Fedora Atomic Desktops and Fedora IoT.

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Real-Time Linux finally makes its way to the mainline kernel

After two decades of development, the Linux real-time patch finally has been merged into the mainline kernel. This milestone marks the culmination of years of work by kernel developers to bring deterministic, low-latency performance to Linux.

With it, the Linux kernel is fully preemptible, which enables it to respond to events within microseconds. This capability is crucial for applications that require precise timing, such as industrial control systems, robotics, and audio production.
With the merging of the real-time patch, Linux is now poised to be a serious player in the RTOS world. This is a victory not just for real-time manufacturers but for all Linux users.

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