The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 11th, 2025, brings news about Mesa 25.1, Linux Mint 22.2 codename, KDE Plasma 6.3.5, Calibre 8.4, fwupd 2.0.9, KDE Frameworks 6.14, Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28, Flatpak 1.16.1, Ubuntu 25.10 daily builds, new Raspberr…
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News: openSUSE joins End of 10 and drops Deepin desktop, Fedora Magazine presents guide for building atomic spins, Ubuntu considering…
If you’re running Kubuntu 25.04 and want the latest fixes the KDE Plasma 6.3.5 release, you can use the Kubuntu backports PPA to get ’em. KDE Plasma 6.3.5 popped out a few weeks back, serving as the fifth and (likely) final bug-fix release …
Read MoreGNOME 48, the default desktop for Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42, introduced built-in break reminders support to protect your eyes from eye strain. The Settings (aka GNOME Control Center) however offers only few configure options for it. For those who like this feature, there are more configure options about it, though hidden by default. And, […]
Read More The Guix project will be migrating all its repositories along with bug
tracking and patch tracking to Codeberg within a
month. This decision is the result of a collective consensus-building
process that lasted several months. This post shows the up…
GNOME 48 introduced “Wellbeing” settings panel, allowing to monitor and limit screen time usage. It also has Break Reminders options that can remind user to take a break in given time interval. If you like this feature, but running on old GNOME (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04) or other desktop environments, then there’s a […]
Read MoreFlatpak 1.16.1 was released today as the latest stable version of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework and the first maintenance update to the Flatpak 1.16 series.
Flatpak 1.16.1 brings various enhancements like the …
Read MoreDid you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.14 as the latest version of this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt, providing commonly needed functionality to KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop.
KDE Frameworks 6.14 continues the monthly …
Read MoreCuriosity, more than sustainability, drove me to add Bluetooth features to my old speakers and thus play Spotify and other players wirelessly through it.
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Colin Percival has sent out an announcement that the FreeBSD team have rekeased of a new development snapshot, FreeBSD 14.3-BETA2. The new snapshot includes several bug fixes, particular…
Read MoreWe are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.0.
Read MoreUbuntu is one of the leading Linux distributions for RISC-V hardware thanks to Canonical’s strategic partnerships with companies like DeepComputing – who just announced their powerful new RISC-V AI PC running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The DC-ROMA RISC-V …
Read MoreThe cross-platform free open source motor-sport simulator, Speed Dreams, released new 2.4.1 version a few days ago. Speed Dreams is a fork of the famous Open Racing Car Simulator TORCS, that features high-quality 3D graphics and an accurate physics engine. The last 2.4.0 release introduced a in-game download manager, allowing to easily fetch new cars […]
Read MoreStay up to date with the latest version of Mozilla Firefox 138 by downloading it now. Learn about the new features and improvements that come with this update.
The post Mozilla Firefox 138 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.
Read MoreAvocado OS is an open-source Linux platform designed for embedded systems, offering flexibility and customization for developers. Learn more about this innovative operating system.
The post Avocado OS: Open-source Linux Platform for Embedded Systems appeared first on Linux Today.
Read MoreStarting this week, after you finish taking our quiz you’ll be presented with links to all of the news stories covered in the quiz! This week there are 10 questions, the same as last week. Good luck!
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Visual Studio Code 1.100, the April 2025 release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released one day ago on May 8. The new version now uses GPT-4.1 as the default base model in AI chat, though it’s a progressive roll-out feature that may not yet be available to all users. It implemented support for OpenAI’s apply patch […]
Read MoreCalibre 8.4 was released today by developer Kovid Goyal as yet another maintenance update to the Calibre 8.x series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free ebook management software for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Highlights of Calibre 8.4 inc…
Read MoreRoll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have cast a new video player for a staring role in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream change now merged, the aged GTK3 video player Totem has been replaced by newer, f…
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