Blender 4.3 has been released.
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-3/
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-3/
Blender
4.3 — Blender
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Firefox 133 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/133.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/133.0/releasenotes/
Firefox
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A German state plans to move to open source software and open standards.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Schleswig-Holstein-drives-forward-the-widespread-use-of-open-source-10177643.html
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Schleswig-Holstein-drives-forward-the-widespread-use-of-open-source-10177643.html
heise online
Schleswig-Holstein drives forward the widespread use of open source
With its strategy for "Open Innovation and Open Source", the Schleswig-Holstein government is planning to switch to "+1.Linux" and ODF, for example.
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OpenStreetMap ditches Ubuntu for Debian on their web servers:
https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html
https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html
Debian Project
Bits from the Debian Project
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.
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After VMWare increased their prices dramatically in the last few months, this enterprise customer who had 20,000 virtual machines using VMWare software has switched to an open source alternative: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/beeks_group_vmware_opennebula_migration/
Here's your greed back in your face, haha! 🔥
Here's your greed back in your face, haha! 🔥
The Register
Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs
A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient
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Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage#google_vignette
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage#google_vignette
Phoronix
Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support
Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today.
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Engineers at MIT have released a dataset of 8000 open source car designs that can be used to design your own future car:
https://news.mit.edu/2024/design-future-car-with-8000-design-options-1205
Very impressive.
https://news.mit.edu/2024/design-future-car-with-8000-design-options-1205
Very impressive.
MIT News
Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.
DrivAerNet++, the largest open-source dataset for car aerodynamics developed to date, can be used to quickly train an AI model to generate novel car designs. This process could potentially lead to more fuel-efficient cars and electric vehicles with longer…
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The GNU project has released version 1.0.0 of their systemd alternative named "Shepherd"... After 20 years in development.
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/
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openSUSE is about to get a new graphical package manager soon.
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/12/20/new-pkg-mgmt-tool-debuts/
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/12/20/new-pkg-mgmt-tool-debuts/
openSUSE News
New Package Management Tool Debuts
The name for this project was updated to Myrlyn on Jan. 9, 2025. YQPkg, a promising new package management tool for openSUSE, is preparing to make waves in t...
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Open source photography app Darktable sees version 5.0.0.
https://www.darktable.org/2024/12/darktable-5.0.0-released/
https://www.darktable.org/2024/12/darktable-5.0.0-released/
darktable
darktable 5.0.0 released
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0!
The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0.
To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release…
The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0.
To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release…
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This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive
https://spectrum.ieee.org/risc-v-laptops
https://spectrum.ieee.org/risc-v-laptops
IEEE Spectrum
This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive
DeepComputing PCs aim to elbow out Arm and x86 architectures
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SDL, a cross-platform open source library for developing games, sees version 3.0 after 17 years in development:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/120491416
https://www.patreon.com/posts/120491416
Patreon
SDL3 is officially released! | Ryan C. Gordon
Get more from Ryan C. Gordon on Patreon
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Firefox 135 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/135.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/135.0/releasenotes/
Firefox
Firefox 135.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
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Microsoft crackdown on old computers preventing them from upgrading to Windows 11 will send a large wave of users to various Linux distributions.
We anticipate it will be even larger than the one after Windows 7.
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-people-upgrading-windows-11-unsupported-hardware/
We anticipate it will be even larger than the one after Windows 7.
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-people-upgrading-windows-11-unsupported-hardware/
XDA
Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
Things are getting tricky.
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LibreOffice 25.2 has been released.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/06/libreoffice-25-2/
TDF (the organization behind LibreOffice) is doing an AMA on Reddit if you would like to see it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ij1cmw/we_are_the_document_foundation_and_we_just/
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/06/libreoffice-25-2/
TDF (the organization behind LibreOffice) is doing an AMA on Reddit if you would like to see it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ij1cmw/we_are_the_document_foundation_and_we_just/
The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice 25.2, the office suite that meets today’s user needs - The Document Foundation Blog
The new major release provides many user interface and accessibility improvements, plus the usual interoperability features Berlin, 6 February 2025 – LibreOffice 25.2, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel…
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OnlyOffice 8.3 has been released.
It is yet another alternative to MS Office.
https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2025/02/onlyoffice-docs-8-3-released
It is yet another alternative to MS Office.
https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2025/02/onlyoffice-docs-8-3-released
ONLYOFFICE Blog
ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.3 released | ONLYOFFICE Blog
The latest version of our online editors is already available with PDF stamps, Merge Shapes, support for Pages, Keynote, Numbers, HWP formats, and more.
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