This site is a collection of tips, examples and small chunks of code I’ve used over the years as I’ve worked with Linux. Mostly the items found here are for my own use but I’ve made the site public in the chance that it will help other people. If you find something useful please let […]
Read MoreMesa 3D graphics library released 26.2.1 version a few days ago, making the new 26.2 release series stable enough for production use. Mesa announced 26.2.0 a few weeks ago with many exciting new features. Now, it’s ready for use by the first 26.2.1 bug fix update. Mesa 26.2.0 is a new development release. People who […]
Read MoreProton, Valve Software’s tool for running Windows games in Linux through Steam, released new 11.0-2 version a few days ago. The new version of this popular Wine based software makes 9 more games playable in Linux! The new playable games in Linux through Proton include: AsteroidsHD, a arcade-style space combat game features single-player, multiplayer, real-time […]
Read MoreChange how your Linux desktop running GNOME DE looks with these GNOME extensions.
Read MoreDid you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix. The AI helped him get there.
Read MoreThe feature sorts mail into six categories using metadata alone, and full-content search is coming to mobile next.
Read MorePostcard is a new email client for GNOME that has echoes of Geary. The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu on GitHub, who is upfront about using AI coding tools to bring his “modern mail client” to life. Postcard is built in Python…
Read MoreKagi’s privacy-focused, WebKit-based browser arrives for Linux as a not quite completely open source beta — with features galore and an opt-in user-funded business model.
The post No Ads, No Telemetry, No AI Agent: Orion Browser Does Linux appeared fi…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The DragonOS project has announced the release of a major update to DragonOS, a specialist Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed for those interested in software-defined radio (SDR). …
Read MoreKDE Gear 26.08, the new release of KDE’s official collection of applications, is available after four months of development. The new version of this KDE app collections includes many new features and improvements to the Dolphin file explorer, KDE connect, Kdenlive video editor, Konsole terminal emulator, and others. Dolphin The Dolphin file explorer app has […]
Read MoreThe three-year project aims to translate hundreds of thousands of lines of C into Rust.
Read MoreThe post 16 Fun Linux One-Liners Every Command-Line User Should Try first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Linux command line has a lot of fun around itself and many tedious task can be performed very easily yet
The post 16 Fun Li…
The recently published Springer book “Tokenisation of Money: From Fiat Currencies to Stablecoins” includes the chapter “Taler as a synthetic Central Bank Digital Currency” by Christian Grothoff, Mikolai Gütschow and Valentin Seehausen. …
Read MoreA new project file format is in the works for GIMP, as the existing one can’t handle larger, complex projects. Since 1997, the famed FOSS image editor has used the binary .xcf format to save projects so layers, effects and anything else can be ed…
Read MoreWith continued DRAM and eMMC shortages, Pine64 has decided to discontinue production of Linux devices.
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The Thunderbird team has officially released Thunderbird 154, delivering several useful new features alongside a substantial collection of fixes for email, calendar…
Read MoreWant to display your lovely photo images as desktop widget, here’s an extension that can do the job for Ubuntu and other Linux with recent GNOME Desktop. It’s Desktop Frames, a GNOME Shell extension that can create multiple desktop widgets that display random images from user selected folders. It is a remake of the original […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The FydeOS project has announced the release of FydeOS 23.0, a significant update of the project’s ChromeOS-based Linux distribution that aims to bring a Google Chromebook-like experienc…
Read MoreYou can bring Ubuntu’s clock, calendar and weather app icons to life with the Dynamic Calendar, Clocks and Weather Icons [Reborn] GNOME Shell extension – which has been updated with new icon styles. The extension already provided Yaru, Adwaita, P…
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