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GIMP 2.10.38 was released on Sunday as what might be the 'possibly last' GIMP 2 stable release ahead of the upcoming GIMP 3.0 release

In addition to Linux 6.10 expected to drop support for very old DEC Alpha processors (EV5 and earlier), it looks like the PowerPC 40x (early PowerPC 400 series) processor and platform support will be retired too.

There's a new release of the open-source nvidia-vaapi-driver available, the third-party VA-API implementation that in turn targets NVIDIA's NVDEC interface to allow software like Mozilla Firefox that only targets VA-API for video acceleration to work on NVIDIA GPUs.

The Linux 6.10 kernel is poised to remove support for old DEC Alpha EV5 platforms and earlier.

The first beta of FreeBSD 14.1 is now available for testing in kicking off what will be the first point release building off last November's FreeBSD 14.0 release.

Back when looking at the AMD Ryzen 7000 series budget server performance last year, DDR5-4800 ECC UDIMMs were used with the ASRock Rack 1U4LW-B650/2L2T Ryzen server given that's what was broadly available at the time.

Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 stable, the AlmaLinux crew today announced AlmaLinux 9.4.

Mesa's Venus Vulkan driver has made cross-device functionality optional in order to enable QEMU support for this open-source driver for virtualized environments.

Synaptics this week published a big update to their out-of-tree graphics driver package for DisplayLink USB graphics.

Cirrus engineers have seen a number of patches queued into the Linux sound subsystem's 'for-next' branch for enabling audio support on some new laptops with the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle.