KDE Seeing Fresh Improvements For HiDPI Support

It took the GNOME/Ubuntu side until Canonical developer Daniel van Vugt picked up a 4K display with Intel graphics for various 4K/Intel graphics optimizations to be discovered and continue to be addressed for the GNOME desktop. Now on the KDE side, well known contributor Nate Graham recently picked up a new laptop with HiDPI display and there he has been working to resolve a number of lingering high DPI issues on the KDE front...


LibreOffice Might Delay Its "Personal Edition" Branding Or Change To "Community Edition"

In response to the largely critical feedback of LibreOffice 7.0-RC1's branding as "Personal Edition" for the standard version of this open-source office suite, the branding is being reconsidered to either delay it until LibreOffice 7.1 or potentially relabel it as the "Community Edition" version...


GCC Compiler Lands Mitigation For Arm's Straight Line Speculation Vulnerability

It took a month after Arm disclosed the CPU "SLS" vulnerability and when the LLVM compiler landed their initial mitigation, but the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has mitigations as well for this Straight Line Speculation vulnerability...


Open Source LLM

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Hops Onto The Microsoft Store For WSL/WSL2

Following last week's release of openSUSE Leap 15.2, this latest community, SUSE-backed Linux distribution release is now available via the Microsoft Store...


A Microsoft Addition For systemd 246 Exposes Host OS Information To Containers

There is a last minute change from a Microsoft engineer to the upcoming systemd 246 that is now undergoing release preparations...


Mesa 20.1.3 Brings More Fixes To The Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers

Mesa 20.1.3 is out as the newest bi-weekly point release for this stable Mesa3D series...


GNOME 3.36.4 Released With Faster Mutter Fix Back-Ported

A day after the GNOME 3.37.4 development release, out today is GNOME 3.36.4 as the latest stable point release for the current desktop series...


Intel

Linux Kernel Raising Compiler Build Requirement To GCC 4.9

Linus Torvalds has decided to up the compiler build requirement for the Linux kernel to GCC 4.9...


Open Source LLM

Open Usage Commons Is Google-Backed Organization For Helping With Open-Source Project Trademarks

Open Usage Commons is a new organization announced today that is backed by Google for helping open-source projects in managing their trademarks...


SUSE Acquiring Rancher Labs

SUSE is upping their container game by acquiring Rancher Labs...