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UxPlay Control Extension Makes AirPlay Sharing Easier to Use

If you want an easier way to control UxPlay on Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution using GNOME Shell), there’s a new extension to help. The UxPlay Control GNOME Shell extension does exactly what it says it says: it gives you control over over UxPlay. It does this by adding a small applet to the top panel. From there, you can easily start and stop AirPlay server sessions as/when you need. You can also access a GUI Preferences panel from which to dial in your preferred behaviour. But if you’re looking at be a bit weird, thinking “what’s UxPlay?”, I’ll […]

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Qt Creator 17 Open-Source IDE Released with a Major Change for Projects

Qt Creator 17

Qt Creator 17 open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is now available for download with various improvements. Here's what's new!

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Cache-Aware Scheduling For Linux Refined - Better AMD & Intel CPU Performance

Going on for several months now has been an effort to wire up cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for the Linux kernel for helping out task placement for processors with multiple cache domains such as modern AMD Ryzen/EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms. This cache-aware scheduling has shown much potential for Linux with further enhancing performance on today's interesting CPUs. Out today is the third iteration of cache-aware scheduling with an important rework...
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Zed Editor Introduces Built-In Debugger

The Zed Editor remains a popular code editor written in the Rust programming language and providing modern features for this project started by former Atom developers. One of the long sought features for Zed has been having built-in debugger capabilities and that work has finally been merged to the project's codebase...
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Framework Laptop 12: An Upgrade-Friendly, Convertible 2-in-1 Linux Laptop

Back in February the Framework Laptop 12 was announced as the company's first 2-in-1 convertible laptop while still being well-built and upgrade-friendly/modular as we have come to enjoy out of their various Linux-friendly laptops. Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework Laptop 12 and thus can share our initial impressions on this Intel-powered 12-inch laptop.
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Servo Browser Engine Finally Supporting Animated GIFs

The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continues moving forward. Servo has finally scratched animated GIF support off its TODO list among other features...
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06/18 paldo 2025-06-18

paldo is a hybrid (source and binary), Upkg-driven GNU/Linux distribution and live CD. Besides aiming to be simple, pure, up-to-date and standards-compliant, paldo offers automatic hardware detection, one application per task, and a standard GNOME desktop.
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Arch Linux Moving To WoW64 Wine & Wine-Staging

The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds. This "Windows on Windows 64-bit" allows for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux platforms without needing 32-bit software libraries/prefixes present and overall a big architectural win...
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

KDE Plasma 6.4

KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment is now available with various new features, enhancements, and other improvements. Here's what's new!

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AMD & System76 Teaming Up For ROCm "Radeon Test Drive"

AMD's Advancing AI 2025 event last week was very busy with announcing the Instinct MI350X and MI355X, the ROCm 7.0 preview, and debuting the AMD Developer Cloud. In addition, they held pre-briefs around the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and buried in as part of that was another new disclosure: Radeon Test Drive. Radeon Test Drive was brought up as something that's coming later this summer from AMD partnering with different hardware vendors to make it easier for developers/customers to try out ROCm on Radeon GPUs...
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06/17 Soplos 3.0.1

Soplos Linux is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch and featuring the Xfce desktop. It offers rolling updates, up-to-date software, a relatively lightweight and customisable desktop, compatibility with older hardware, and various speed and performance optimisation features. The distribution ships with a number of custom applications, such as Soplos Theme Manager, Soplos Plymouth Manager, Soplos Docklike (for adding and removing applications in the dock) and Soplos GRUB Editor.
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Intel's Next-Gen QAT Hardware Can Be Optimized For Just Decompression Use

Merged recently for the Linux 6.16 kernel was initial support for Intel QAT Gen6 hardware. A new qat_6xxx driver was added for supporting the next-gen QuickAssist Technology accelerator IP being found with upcoming Intel Xeon processors. Patches being prepared now for the Linux 6.17 kernel are building out a new decompression service for that next-generation hardware...
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Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT"

Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market...
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Kernel Recipes 2025 – 12e édition : c’est parti !

Nous (NdM: équipe d'organisation de Kernel Recipes) sommes fiers de vous annoncer la 12e édition de Kernel Recipes. Elle aura lieu du 22 au 24 septembre 2025 à Paris. Comme les années précédentes, une vingtaine d'interventions reatives au fonctionnement de la communauté, des outils, la question de l'usage de Rust, de la sécurité… Le programme est en ligne et quasiment complet.

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Le parrain de cette édition : Paul McKenney

Cette année, nous avons l’immense honneur d’accueillir Paul E. McKenney en tant que parrain de l’édition. Contributeur incontournable du noyau Linux depuis plus de 30 ans, connu pour son travail sur RCU (Read-Copy-Update), Paul proposera un talk sur RCU avec probablement des surprises sur scène au programme.

Charity auctions

Comme tous les ans nous mettons à l'honneur une association pour tenter d'apporter une contribution. Cette année, il s'agit des Restos du Coeur. Plus précisément, les fonds récoltés seront destinés à l’entretien et au développement de leur infrastructure informatique, entièrement gérée par des bénévoles, et essentielle au bon fonctionnement quotidien de l’organisation.

Julien Briault, bénévole qui s’en occupe le soir après son travail, sera présent pour nous parler de son engagement et de son rôle.

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Dans la salle

Notre "flying mic" fait peau neuve et continuera à favoriser les échanges lors des interventions. Frank TIZZONI sera également de la partie pour croquer sur le fait particpants et orateurs. Jean-Christophe Huwette (Uweti) sera à la manoeuvre pour le son et l'image et grâce à lui nous proposerons cette année encore un live stream de la conférence.

Un grand merci à nos sponsors

Kernel Recipes ne pourrait pas exister sans le soutien fidèle de ses sponsors : Meta, ARM, Collabora, HAProxy, Igalia, jumptrading, The Linux Foundation, Cyberzen, Linux Pratique. Ils nous permettent de conserver la conférence accessible à tous et proposer un environnement propice aux échanges.

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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 24 de l’année 2025

Cette revue de presse sur Internet fait partie du travail de veille mené par l’April dans le cadre de son action de défense et de promotion du logiciel libre. Les positions exposées dans les articles sont celles de leurs auteurs et ne rejoignent pas forcément celles de l’April.

[Libération] Clara Chappaz, ministre du Numérique et titulaire de 320 000 euros d'actions… dans le secteur du numérique (€)

✍ Luc Peillon, le vendredi 13 juin 2025.

L’entourage de la benjamine du gouvernement Bayrou assure que ses actions sont administrées «sous mandat de gestion», donc sans intervention possible de sa part.

[Next] Dans les communautés de Wikipédia, l'utilisation de l'IA ne passe pas

✍ Martin Clavey, le vendredi 13 juin 2025.

La fondation Wikimedia a mis en place une fonctionnalité expérimentale de résumé automatique des articles de l’encyclopédie qui s’affichait en tête de page dans la version mobile. Les wikipédiens n’ont pas apprécié et l’ont fait comprendre à la fondation, qui a finalement fait marche arrière avant la fin de la période de tests prévue.

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[Nice-Matin] Inria Academy forme aux logiciels libres (€)

✍ K.Wenger, le vendredi 13 juin 2025.

Le dispositif de formation continue d’Inria accompagne toutes les entreprises qui ont une stratégie d’innovation dans le numérique.

[01net.] Le code d'Android reste open source, mais à quel prix?

✍ Mickaël Bazoge, le jeudi 12 juin 2025.

Peur panique dans la communauté des développeurs AOSP, la version open source d’Android qui sert de base à plusieurs systèmes d’exploitation. Google a livré le code source d’Android 16, en omettant plusieurs documents et ressources. Le moteur de recherche, principal contributeur du projet, veut rassurer ses troupes mais les craintes persistent.

[Le Monde Informatique] La Fondation Linux assure un futur serein à WordPress

✍ Dominique Filippone, le lundi 9 juin 2025.

Alors que les tensions se sont multipliées ces derniers mois entre les hébergeurs de sites WordPress Auttomatic et WP Engine, la Fondation Linux tente de rassurer les utilisateurs. Des mises à jour et des plugins seront distribués de façon indépendante pour stabiliser l’écosystème du célèbre CMS open source.

[usine-digitale.fr] Souveraineté numérique: Copenhague et Aarhus enclenchent leur divorce avec Microsoft

✍ Alice Vitard, le mercredi 4 juin 2025.

Face aux tensions géopolitiques et à la montée des préoccupations sur la souveraineté numérique, les deux principales municipalités du Danemark, Copenhague et Aarhus, se retirent des services de Microsoft. A la clé : une réduction des coûts et la volonté de limiter la dépendance à un acteur étranger dominant. Ce choix provoquera-t-il un effet domino parmi les villes européennes en quête d’alternatives souveraines?

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Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs

Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger "BMG G31" variant. This evening those patches were merged for Mesa 25.2 for what's rumored to be potentially the Arc B770 graphics cards to launch later in the year...
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06/16 Calculate 20250616

Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based family of three distinguished distributions. Calculate Directory Server (CDS) is a solution that supports Windows and Linux clients via LDAP + SAMBA, providing proxy, mail and Jabbers servers with streamlined user management. Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD) is a workstation and client distribution (with a choice of Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE or Xfce desktops) that includes a wizard to configure a connection to Calculate Directory Server. Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) is a live CD with a build framework for creating a custom distribution.
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Trying Out The AMD Developer Cloud For Evaluating Instinct + ROCm

Last week alongside announcing the AMD Instinct MI350X/MI355X and the ROCm 7.0 software preview, AMD also introduced the AMD Developer Cloud as a new means for developers to easy try out Instinct accelerators with their own software and with the ROCm compute stack already setup. Having tried out prior AMD cloud compute environments, as soon as my email invite for the AMD Developer Cloud arrived I decided to give it a try.
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Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues

Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programming language. For helping in determining different combinations of issues around compiler performance, the Rust team has started a survey to collect more information on the issues...
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06/16 Gnoppix 25.06-beta

Gnoppix is a Debian and Kali Linux-based distribution which can be run from a DVD, USB thumb drive or from a local drive. It can resume previous sessions while running in a live mode. The distribution attempts to clean up after itself, removing all traces of its use from the computer or used media. Prior to version 22, Gnoppix was a Knoppix-based distribution and live medium featuring the GNOME desktop.
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FreeRDP 3.16 Released With Better SDL3 Client Support

FreeRDP 3.16 is out today as the newest update to this open-source Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) library and client implementation. This Apache-licensed project continues to be one of the leading implementations of the Microsoft RDP protocol for use outside the confines of Windows...
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 15th, 2025

9to5Linux Roundup June 15th

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 15th, 2025, brings news about Linux 6.14 EOL, Kali Linux 2025.2, Rocky Linux 10, Ubuntu dropping X11 session, new Linux laptop, Mixxx 2.5.2, Audacity 3.7.4, Nitrux adopting Hyprland, KDE Frameworks 6.15, PeaZip 10.5, DXVK 2.6.2, Sway 1.11, and more.

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PeaZip 10.5 Brings Major Performance Boost to the File and Archive Manager

PeaZip 10.5

PeaZip 10.5 open-source archive manager is now available for download with major performance improvements to the file and archive browsing.

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Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

Following the release of Linux 6.16-rc1 last Sunday that capped off the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linux 6.16-rc2 is now available with an initial week's worth of bug/regression fixes. Linux 6.16 development continues in aiming toward a stable release around the end of July...
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Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional

Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward this week and could be merged for the Linux 6.17 cycle later in the summer...
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