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Weekly Digest: Highlights from 9to5Linux – March 17th, 2024
The 179th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 17th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, you can catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here. Thank you! I want to thank all the people who…
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Step-by-step Guide: How to Install Linux Kernel 6.8 on Ubuntu
Linux 6.8 is currently the most updated stable kernel and it’s now accessible for Ubuntu users to install via Canonical’s Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. This is a short guide showing you how to install it through the GUI or command line. Linux kernel 6.8 was officially launched on March 10th, 2024. It brings with…
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Harnessing Deep Learning Neural Networks: digiKam 8.3’s Automatic Image Tagging Feature
digiKam 8.3, an open-source, free, and cross-platform digital photo management application, is now available as a major release that incorporates new features and resolves a vast range of bugs and issues. The key features of digiKam 8.3 consist of a new automatic image tagging tool utilizing a Deep Learning neural network engine, proficient in categorizing…
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Mozilla Discontinues Its Privacy-Enhancing Location Service
Mozilla has announced it is ending access to Mozilla Location Service (MLS), which provides accurate, privacy-respecting, and crowdsourced geolocation data. Developers and 3rd-party projects that use MLS to detect a users’ location, such as the freedesktop.org location framework GeoClue, which is used by apps like GNOME Maps and Weather, have only a few months left…
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Introducing the Refreshed System76 Adder WS Linux Laptop with 14th Gen Intel CPU HX-Class
System76 has informed 9to5Linux.com about the launch of an updated version of their Adder WS notebook, now featuring a 14th Gen Intel HX-Class CPU and increased storage capacity. About a year ago, System76 released the Adder WS laptop, their first Linux notebook to use the NVIDIA 40 series GPU. This range included the NVIDIA GeForce…
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Introducing Proton Mail’s New Desktop App for Linux Users
Proton Mail has unveiled a new desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. This new software allows users of this privacy-centric mail service to avoid a web browser for checking, composing, and organizing their emails. Well-known to those who prioritize privacy, Proton was created by a team of scientists and engineers collaborating at CERN…
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How Linux 6.6 LTS Powers Raspberry Pi OS and Enhances Raspberry Pi 5 Support
The Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced a new version of its Raspberry Pi OS, built for their single-board computers, featuring a new kernel from the Linux 6.6 long-term support series, revised components, and various enhancements. The upgraded Raspberry Pi OS still comes on the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” Operating system. It now runs on Linux…
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Breaking News: VLC Media Player Surpasses 5 Billion Downloads – Major Updates on the Horizon
VLC media player has now been downloaded over 5 billion times across desktop and mobile devices, with the most recent release clocking up 335 million downloads on its own! Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VideoLAN, the non-profit organisation who develops VLC (and related tech), shared the monumental milestone in a natter with Lowpass newsletter editor Janko…
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New Release: OBS Studio 30.1 with Added AV1 Support for VA-API and PipeWire Camera Source
The latest OBS Studio 30.1, a significant update in the OBS Studio 30 series, is now ready for download, bringing a multitude of new features and enhancements. This new release of the open-source screencasting and streaming application offers many exciting updates. Featured add-ons in OBS Studio 30.1 include the PipeWire Video Capture Device source, AV1…
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New Release: GNU Linux-Libre 6.8 Kernel for Advocates of Software Freedom
The GNU Linux-libre project announced the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.8 kernel, an option for those prioritizing complete freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software. Constructed on the recently released Linux 6.8 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 6.8 kernel offers a clean up of new drivers for Intel qat_420xx, Imagination PowerVR,…
