The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire.
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elementary OS 7 Takes Its Place Among the Best Linux Desktops
After more than a year since the last stable 6.1 release, elementary OS 7, codenamed “Horus,” is here as one of the best Linux desktop distributions. So let’s see what this new release has in store for us.... Read more
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apt Command in Linux
As a Linux user, it’s important to have a good understanding of the apt command. For those of you who didn’t know, the apt command is a command-line utility for managing packages on a Debian-based Linux system. It is used ... The post apt Command in Linux appeared first on... Read more
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Asahi Gallium3D Driver Enables Mesa Shader Disk Cache Support
A number of patches were merged this week to Mesa 23.1 around the Asahi "AGX" Gallium3D driver that continues progressing on open-source OpenGL support for Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics...... Read more
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AMD Makes Progress On Their RDNA3 User-Mode Queues For Linux Driver
Just prior to Christmas there was a "request for comments" (RFC) patch series sent out working on RDNA3 user-mode queue support for their AMDGPU kernel driver. That work has now advanced post-RFC with an updated patch series having been sent out on Friday...... Read more
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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Adds GPL Group Handles To Help VKD3D-Proton DXR
NVIDIA on Friday released the v525.47.07 Linux driver beta with their latest Vulkan driver enhancements along with the NVIDIA 528.50 driver on the Windows side...... Read more
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Servo Web Engine Publishes Its 2023 Roadmap
Back in 2020 Mozilla moved Servo to the Linux Foundation for the Rust-written web engine after it laid off the Servo developers. Servo development is now community/volunteer-driven and a road-map was published yesterday outlining some of their hopes for this calendar year...... Read more
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How to Secure your Raspberry Pi
A secure Raspberry Pi is a safe Raspberry Pi. Here's how to keep unwanted guests from ruining your Pi-based IoT projects.... Read more
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More Feature Work Begins On KDE Plasma 6.0 As Plasma 5.27 Nears Release
KDE Plasma 5.27 is due for release on Valentine's Day (14 February) as what will also be the last feature release in the Plasma 5 series. With the imminent 5.27 release, more feature work on Plasma 6.0 has been getting underway...... Read more
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How To Install Htop on Fedora 37
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Htop on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, Htop is a popular process monitoring tool for Linux systems. It provides real-time information about system resource usage and ... The post How To Install Htop on Fedora 37... Read more
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Twitter has killed Movetodon, the service that simplified moving from Twitter to Mastodon
The exodus from Twitter to Mastodon shows little signs of slowing down, and numerous websites and services have popped up to make it easier to jump to the decentralized social network. One such tool is Movetodon, designed to help anyone moving to Mastodon to find the people they were previously... Read more