📰 Ardour 9.8 Open-Source DAW Is Now Available with Initial Scales Support

Ardour 9.8 open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software is now available for download with initial scales support, session recovery and clip recording improvements, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ardour-9-8-open-source-daw-is-now-available-with-initial-scales-support

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📰 AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers

The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a "denial of service" attack on project maintainers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-DoS-Attack-Maintainers

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📰 Lilbits: Framework Laptop 12 gets a Wildcat Lake upgrade, Pine64 halts Linux device production due to RAMageddon

Fairphone is finally bringing a smartphone to the US market. Framework is upgrading its cheapest laptop. And RAMageddon claims another victim. Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. Pine64 is halting production of Linux devices like the PineTab2 tablet and PineNote E Ink slate due to the DRAM/eMMC shortage, and will .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-framework-laptop-12-gets-a-wildcat-lake-upgrade-pine64-halts-linux-device-production-due-to-ramageddon/

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📰 Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"

The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-X11-Performance-PorteuX

#distro #linux #wayland

📰 Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging

Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux. They aren't yet committed to officially supporting Flatpak packages but for now are at least exploring the option...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak

#chromium #flatpak #linux