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Over the past week, discussion has grown around the new Plasma Login Manager introduced with KDE Plasma 6.6, which now requires systemd. Shortly after its release, KaOS unexpectedly announced that it would move away from Plasma as its default desktop…
For those running Linux guests on Microsoft Hyper-V, the Linux kernel 7.0 cycle delivers several meaningful virtualization improvements. These updates land alongside continued enhancements to KVM, making 7.0 a strong release overall for hypervisor and cloud workloads. Integrated Scheduler Support…
Linus Torvalds has officially closed the merge window with the release of Linux kernel 7.0-rc1. Although the jump to version 7.0 follows Torvalds’ usual habit of incrementing the major version after x.19 releases, this cycle is packed with substantial changes…
Ladybird, the new browser currently under active development, has begun rewriting parts of its codebase in Rust. Founder Andreas Kling explained that the team had previously evaluated Swift as a potential successor to C++. However, Swift proved impractical due to…
One month after shipping version 147, Mozilla Firefox 148 has arrived, bringing a range of new features and improvements to the widely used open-source browser. Centralized AI Controls The headline addition is a new AI Controls section in Settings. This…
The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted…
As of this week Oracle’s latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux’s native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it’s finally becoming a reality. Back…
Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies With libvirt 12.0, improving Bhyve as the FreeBSD hypervisor was a big focus. Libvirt 12.0 brings several new features for the Bhyve BSD hypervisor support.…
All of the KVM virtualization feature changes were recently merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel. KVM on x86 with Linux 7.0 now supports giving the guest full ownership of the PMU hardware, support for new Intel CPU instructions, fixes,…
Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing. For what began as an Intel open-source project years ago is continuing to be largely led by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Tencent, Ant Group, and others.…
