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LibreOffice 24.8 Released, Here’s What’s New

LibreOffice 24.8 is out, featuring advanced privacy settings, a wealth of new features across all apps, and broad OS compatibility. Learn more!
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KDE Gear 24.08 Open-Source Software Suite Released With Many Improvements

Highlights of KDE Gear 24.08 include new features in the Dolphin file manager to make it easier to access and manage files and folders that require administrative privileges, wizards to help install needed software, menu options to elevate your privileges, and a new “Move to New Folder…” option to create a folder and copy the […]

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Pulsar 1.120 Rolls Out With Advanced Code Handling Features

Pulsar 1.120, an open-source and cross-platform code editor, now has better icons, improved JavaScript indentation, and updated ‘ppm’ functionalities.
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Godot 4.3 Open-Source Game Engine Released, Here’s What’s New

Godot 4.3, a free and open-source game engine, introduces new node types, quality-of-life changes, Linux Wayland support, and more.
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6 Best Free and Open-Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

This article highlights OCR-powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images. We only feature open-source software here.
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How to Install RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 24.04 Server

RabbitMQ is a free and open-source message broker. Supporting multiple message protocols, RabbitMQ is the most widely used message broker on the internet.
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How to Install GCC and Development Tools on RHEL-based Systems

The post How to Install GCC and Development Tools on RHEL-based Systems first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Nowadays, as a system administrator or engineer, you can’t feel satisfied by knowing how to use the CLI and troub…

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Thanks to Nextcloud, FOSS Webmail Client Roundcube Now Has Support on Steroids

How Nextcloud came to the aid of a popular open-source project, in part by getting three other open-source projects involved.
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Linux Foundation Announces ‘Open Model Initiative’ to Promote Openly Licensed AI Models

While Open Source Initiative continues its work developing an open-source AI definition, LF has taken AI-based Open Model Initiative under its wings. The Linux Foundation…
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HandBrake 1.8.2 Video Transcoder Brings Key Fixes and Library Upgrades

The latest HandBrake free video transcoder update, 1.8.2, fixes scan issues and enhances encoding on Windows and Linux.
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Switchroot Lets You Run Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on Your Nintendo Switch

Switchroot is an open-source project that focuses on getting Linux and Android running on the NVIDIA Tegra X1-powered Nintendo Switch.
It has quietly introduced a new Linux image that comes equipped with the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release. Let’s check …

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Thanks to Nextcloud, FOSS Webmail Client Roundcube Now Has Support on Steroids

How Nextcloud came to the aid of a popular open source project, in part by getting three other open source projects involved.
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Germany to Fund Open Source Software Maintainers Through New Fellowship Program

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund unveils a new program to fund maintainers of open-source projects that’s expected to be up and running by year’s end.
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Some Open-Source Software Licences Are Only ‘Open-ish,’ Says Thoughtworks

A number of open-source tech tools have moved towards commercial licences. Thoughtworks says this creates “big headaches” for IT, which is scrambling to maintain compliance and find replacement tools.
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Snowflake Open Sources Apache Iceberg-Related Polaris Data Catalog

Alongside the notification that Polaris Catalog has been made open source, Dremio announced that it was sharing Project Nessie’s capabilities with Polaris.
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Open Source Is Not a Business Model; It Never Was

The other day, Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of the software supply chain company Chainguard, wrote on LinkedIn that “open source is not a good strategy for startups.” What? Do you think I was going to disagree because I’m a big open-source fan? Think again! Yep, it’s a great development model, but it never has […]

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Randy Bias Is VP Open Source Strategy and Technology at Mirantis’ New OSPO

The open source cloud pioneer Mirantis says it’s hired Bias to hold itself “accountable as a responsible open source citizen.”
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How to Hack Your Own Linux System

The post How to Hack Your Own Linux System first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Passwords are the primary criterion for system security in most systems. When it comes to Linux, knowing the root password
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Top 13 Web Server Performance Testing Tools

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 13 high-quality web server performance testing tools that offer accurate and reliable benchmarking.
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The Graying Open Source Community Needs Fresh Blood

The deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forward.
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