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It's been two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.25 and now just ahead of Christmas there is Enlightenment 0.26 released by Carsten Haitzler.

Ahead of the holidays the open-source developers working on the Godot game engine have released Godot 4.3 Dev 1 as their first test release to this next feature release.

Merged yesterday to the Git code for the PostgreSQL database server is support for facilitating incremental backups.

If you were hoping to spend your New Year's Eve compiling a freshly-minted Linux 6.7 stable kernel, you'll need to draft new plans as Linux 6.7 stable won't be released until the following week.

For those with Intel Arc Graphics on Linux and wanting to enjoy the game Baldur's Gate 3 thanks to the power of Valve's Steam Play software, an important fix has been merged to Mesa 24.0-devel and set for back-porting to Mesa 23.3

Here's a pleasant Christmas present and one I certainly wasn't expecting..

The latest bits of future Intel CPU hardware support being queued for the mainline kernel is adding Intel Idle driver support for the upcoming Sierra Forest and Grand Ridge processors.

One of the often overlooked pieces of the Linux desktop software stack is Plymouth that for the past 15 years or so has been providing a graphical boot splash screen that succeeded Red Hat's former RHGB software or having no graphical boot splash screen at all on some Linux distributions

With this week's release of Firefox 121, Wayland is being used by default when encountering a native Wayland desktop

In helping to guide Intel's open-source interests in 2024, the company is hosting an Open-Source Community Survey