Ubuntu 26.10 is Expected to Have Speech To Text Support

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is making a new speech to text application. Ubuntu 26.10 is expected as the first release to include it. The new app is named myna, a bird that’s known for its ability to mimic human speech. “Press a keyboard shortcut, speak naturally, and see the resulting text appear in the […]

Commodore's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS

The Callback 8020 still runs apps made for Android, btw.

KDE Plasma 6.7 Release Resurrects Two Themes From the KDE 4 Era

The release also brings per-screen virtual desktops and Union, a new CSS-based theming system.

at Command: Schedule One-Time Linux Tasks Without Cron

The post at Command: Schedule One-Time Linux Tasks Without Cron first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .The at command lets you queue a one-off task to run once at a specific time, so you don’t have
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Audacity 4.0 beta lets you test its new (nicer) Qt interface

Audacity 4’s first public beta arrived this month with the biggest design change the iconic open-source audio editor has seen in decades. The audio editor’s interface, built on wxWidgets since the project began, now runs in Qt. However, the…

FreeBSD Launches AI-Assisted Project to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities

With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase.
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VirtualBox 7.2.10 Released with Initial Linux 7.1 Kernel Support

VirtualBox, the popular virtualization software made and maintained by Oracle, released new 7.2.10 version yesterday. The new version of this free open-source software added initial support for the most recent Linux Kernel 7.1 and fixed various issues. First, the new version added support Linux Distributions with Kernel 7.1, running either as guest OS in virtual […]

cssc @ Savannah: CSSC-1.5.0-rc3 is released

This is to announce CSSC-1.5.0-rc3, a beta release.

This is a release candidate for a future stable 1.5.0 release.

There have been 46 commits by 2 people in the 109 weeks since CSSC-1.5.0-rc2.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

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Malicious apps got into the Arch User Repository – how to protect yourself

For the second time in a week, the AUR was found to contain malicious applications. What can Arch Linux users do about this?

4 Tools to Find Which Linux Process Is Using Your Bandwidth

The post 4 Tools to Find Which Linux Process Is Using Your Bandwidth first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Your Linux server’s network is maxed out, and you have no idea what’s eating it, so here’s how to find
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AUR Registrations Blocked Amid Ongoing Malware Mess

Arch has evidently stopped new AUR registrations for the time being while maintainers scrub malware and users debate how to harden the popular community repository.
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Raven Prism is a Linux Computer That Happens To Be A Pair of Glasses

This eye-controlled smart glass is a San Francisco-based startup’s bet on ambient computing.

I tried AnduinOS 2.0, and it may be the easiest way to ditch Windows for Linux

AnduinOS 2.0 is a speedy, private, Ubuntu-based Linux distro that’s all about true distro engineering. And it’s laid out like Windows 11.

Distribution Release: Univention Corporate Server 5.2-6

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Univention team have published a new version of the project’s Debian-based Univention Corporate Server. The latest release updates handling of group mailboxes and makes it easier to …

KDE Plasma 6.7 Released with Per Screen Virtual Desktops

KDE Plasma 6.7, the new major release of this popular Linux desktop environment, was released today! The new version introduced many exciting new features, theme improvements, and better AMD/Intel platforms support. First, the new Plasma 6.7 brought Oxygen theme, the default theme in KDE 4, in both light and dark versions, as well as the […]

Arch Linux Pulls the Plug on New AUR Registrations After Malware Flood

More than 1,500 AUR packages got hit, and new waves kept coming.

The latest KDE Plasma 6.7 surprised me with features I didn’t expect from a point release

The latest release of one of the finest desktop environments on the market is here, and there’s plenty to be happy about.

Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era – and do some serious legacy clean up

And say hello to much better NTFS support. Linux creator Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 7.1.

KDE Plasma 6.7 released

KDE Plasma 6.7 has been released, and it brings a feature many of its users have been requesting for decades: independent per-screen virtual desktops. The latest stable update also sees a classic KDE theme revived, supports simultaneous HDR and ICC pro…

BSD Release: FreeBSD 15.1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 15.1, the second release in FreeBSD’s latest stable branch: “The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availabil…