Linux system monitoring app Mission Center has put out its first update in 6 months – and it’s a big one! Mission Center 1.0 adds new hardware tracking, UI tweaks, and refactors its backend to provide palapble performance improvements, boost the …
Did 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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Want to round corners of windows in KDE Plasma Desktop? Here’s a KWin effect can do the job in recent Plasma desktop from v5.27 to v6.3. There was a ShapeCorners KWin/5 effect can do the job to enable rounded window corners, which however discontinued. What I’m going to introduce is KDE-Rounded-Corners, a fork of ShapeCorners […]
Sharing my favorite Logseq plugins that I love to use for managing my personal knowledge base.
Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.24.1.tar.gz
New in this release:
Bug fixes:
Fix bad interactions between autoreconf and autopoint.
xgettext: Creating the POT file of a package under Git version control is now fas…
Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 10 questions. Good luck!
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If you use the Papirus icon theme on Ubuntu, you’ll be pleased to hear a new version is available to download. Frequent updates are a major reason why the Papirus icon set is so popular with Linux users. After all, it’s annoying to switch to a st…
The post 15 Easy Ways to Speed Up Ubuntu in 2025 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Ubuntu is known for its user-friendly interface and robust performance, but over time, even the best operating systems can slow
The post 15 Ea…
The post Top 25 Network Ports You Must Know for Interviews first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you’re preparing for a networking, Linux system administration, DevOps, or cybersecurity interview, understanding network p…
The post How to Use Shutdown, Poweroff, Halt, and Reboot Commands in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In this article, we’ll explain the difference between the shutdown, poweroff, halt and reboot commands in Linux. We’…
Canonical has announced the first official Ubuntu desktop image for the Qualcomm DragonWing platform. A beta image of Ubuntu 24.04 desktop compatible with Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors, and specifically tailored for the Qualco…
If you’ve ever wanted to use a rolling release distribution with WSL, now’s your chance.
Twenty-one new GNU releases in the last month (as of April 30, 2025):
Here’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of April, 2025.
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The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.
The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. N…
Development today opened on Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”, the next short-term release of Ubuntu, due for release in October. Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta fired the figurative starting pistol for developers in a post to the Ubuntu mail…
An organization that among other things provides hosting for over 500 free and open source projects from all over the world suddenly finds itself needing a helping hand.
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by George Whittaker
Introduction
In a world teeming with Linux distributions — from Ubuntu to Arch, Debian to Fedora — the idea of building your own may seem daunting, if not redundan…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Maria Fokanova has announced the release of ALT Linux 11.0 “Workstation”, an independently-developed Linux distribution with RPM package management and (newly) GNOME as the default deskt…
For NVIDIA users, Ubuntu finally backported the latest NVIDIA 570 driver for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10 desktop. NVIDIA 570 is so far the latest production branch driver for Linux that was initially released in February. The driver features variable refresh rate (VRR) support on multiple monitors, systemd suspend-then-hibernate sleep method, […]