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Linux Magazine Full Feed 2025-05-05 08:11:00

Nate explores the top FOSS including a starship bridge simulator, an offline translator, a stateless password manager, and a de-googled version of Chromium.

A cross-platform terminal app

A powerful and stylish open source, cross-platform terminal application.

Switching users with su

There are more ways to switch users than you may know. The su command offers security and versatility.

Graphical tools for configuring the GRUB2 bootloader

A graphical tool might be your best option for configuring or adapting the GRUB2 boot loader.

Knowledge management as a library

BookStack gives even inexperienced users the ability to create documentation and other collections of information in next to no time.

Ubuntu 24.04 on the Raspberry Pi

Not just for PCs, Ubuntu 24.04 supports the Raspberry Pi, bringing a fully-fledged Gnome system to the single-board computer. You can even run x86 apps in an emulator on the Pi 5.

Customize a retro handheld gaming console with Onion OS

Adding custom firmware to a handheld gaming device enhances your gaming experience and lets you write custom apps. We show you how with Onion OS on a Miyoo Mini Plus.

Mission Center 1.0 Added SMART Data & Per App Network Monitoring

Mission Center, the popular free open-source system monitoring and task managing app for Linux Desktop, release new 1.0.0 version few days ago. Like Resources, it’s a modern GTK4 tool to monitor CPU, GPU, Memory, Storage and Network devices, while being able to manage running apps, processes, as well as background services. The new release has […]

17 Must-Have Tools for Ubuntu Users in 2026

The post 17 Must-Have Tools for Ubuntu Users in 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In this article, you will discover the best Ubuntu apps for beginners, covering everything from productivity tools to entertainment option…

Immich: Your Private, Self-Hosted Alternative to Google Photos

The post Immich: Your Private, Self-Hosted Alternative to Google Photos first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Immich is an open-source, self-hosted solution designed to help you back up and manage your photos and videos with ease…

Learning Shell Scripting: A Guide from Newbies to System Administrator

The post Learning Shell Scripting: A Guide from Newbies to System Administrator first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you’re starting your journey in the world of system administration or want to automate your tasks on L…

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1120

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: CachyOS 250330
News: Kali updates project’s repository key, Trinity desktop receives update, UBports testing home directory encryption, Gentoo a…

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 4th, 2025

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 4th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 138, qBittorrent 5.1, 4MLinux 48, openSUSE Leap 16 beta, LibreOffice 25.2.3, Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.4, Thunderbird 138, as well as all the latest distro and software u…

Should You Trust Redis’s Rebaptism Into the Holy Open Source Spirit?

Be sure to take the included poll after you read this delve into Redis and the wishy-washy world that has become the company’s relationship with open-source.
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Mission Center 1.0: New Features, Better Performance

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 …

The Top Five — For the Week Ending May 2, 2025

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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Enable Rounded Windows Corner for KUbuntu KDE Plasma Desktop

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 […]

7 Essential Logseq Plugins I Use and Recommend

Sharing my favorite Logseq plugins that I love to use for managing my personal knowledge base.

gettext @ Savannah: GNU gettext 0.24.1 released

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…

FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz – May 2, 2025

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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