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Review: Debian 13 “Trixie”
News: Debian GNU/Hurd team publishes new release, KDE’s window manager gets customised Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentic…
Name: Ubuntu Dangerous (subject to change). Age: Yet to be born. Appearance: Er, like a normal Ubuntu development build, but with hidden potential for CHAOS. What’s this about? Ubuntu developers feel regular unstable daily builds are not dangerou…
Read MoreThe 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 17th, 2025, brings news about NVIDIA 580, VirtualBox 7.2, KDE Gear 25.08, GNOME 49 beta, SparkyLinux 8.0, Grml 2025.08, GNOME 48.4, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, Debian and GNOME’s birthdays, and more.
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Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” default wallpaper features a line-art quokka motif, purple gradient, and a cute nod to the ‘questing’ part of the codename.
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Ubuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, is coming soon in next few months. Now, the default wallpapers are out! As usual, the default wallpaper is made up of the mascot (quokka) in center, a type of wallaby from southwestern Australia, and a gradient background. As you see via the image below, this time it looks like […]
Read MoreGrml 2025.08 live distro for system administrators is now available for download based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series. Here’s what’s new!
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Grml is a bootable image based on Debian and designed for system administrators and users of text tools. The project has announced the launch of Grml 2025.08 which is based on Debian 13….
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Robert Spiteri has announced a major new release of Zephix, a lightweight and fast Linux distribution, based on Debian’s “Stable” branch and built for simplicity and speed. This release …
Read MoreGNOME 49, the default desktop environment for next Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora Workstation 43, is available for Beta testing. This Beta is available more than a month after the first Alpha. There will also be a RC release, while, the final of GNOME 49 is planned for September 17. In last Alpha, the desktop added […]
Read MoreSimply plug in this Ting smart sensor and let it handle the rest – it’ll provide key insights into your home’s risk of electrical fires.
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Usage tiers have been announced for Kiro, the ‘agentic’ AI IDE built on Code by a team at Amazon AWS — and bad news if you use it: they’re now in effect. I spotlighted the preview release of Kiro in mid-july, since the launch of an Am…
Read MoreGNOME 49 Beta desktop environment is now available for public testing with more new features and improvements ahead of the final release on September 17th, 2025. Here’s what’s new!
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The development team behind LibreELEC, a multi-platform Linux distribution featuring the Kodi media centre, have released a new update, version 12.2.0. This is a minor update that improv…
Read MoreA new version of the nifty Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell extension is available, and adds the sought-after ability to show/hide indicator and applet icons. To recap this add-on for those unfamiliar, Floating Mini Panel turns the GNOME Top Bar (the pa…
Read MoreAfter 2 Beta and 1 RC testing releases, Oracle VirtualBox finally announced the new major 7.2.0 release. VirtualBox 7.2.0 redesigned its main UI. Now, it has a left side-bar allowing to navigate between Virtual Machines, Extensions, Media, Network, Cloud, Resources, as well as Home to get started. Besides UI changes, the released added video decoding […]
Read MoreConsidering a PC upgrade, but unsure about how much RAM to buy? Here’s how I make that decision in the current climate.
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Barry Kauler has announced the release of EasyOS 7.0, a major new version of the experimental distribution that changes several pieces of technology behind the scenes. “Compared with pri…
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