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ArcoLinux Sails Into the Sunset

Another small but well-maintained distro with a dedicated following reaches the end of the trail.

Pinta 3.0 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04

Pinta, the popular free open-source drawing and image editing app, released new major 3.0 release yesterday. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users. Pinta 3.0 features GTK 4.0 and Libadwaita for its modern user interface that’s well integrated in recent GNOME desktop environments. It now automatically switches between light […]

How To Install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu 24.04. VLC (Video LAN Client) is the most famous audio and movie player everybody who uses computer and phone knows and it is a free software licensed under GNU GPL. Its logo is the orange …

The Top Five — For the Week Ending April 11, 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.

Pinta 3.0 Released With New Effects and GTK4 Port

Indulging your casual creativity (read: making memes, defacing selfies, etc) using open-source tools is made easier with the long-awaited release of Pinta 3.0. Pinta, as long-time Linux users will be aware, is a cross-platform raster graphics tool with…

Pinta 3.0 Open-Source Paint Program Released with GTK4 Port, New Effects

Pinta 3.0 open-source paint and drawing software is now available for download with GTK4 port, new effects, and many other changes. Here’s what’s new!
The post Pinta 3.0 Open-Source Paint Program Released with GTK4 Port, New Effects appeared first on 9…

gcl @ Savannah: Small release errata

Greetings!  While these tiny issues will likely not affect many if any,

there are alas a few tiny errata with the 2.7.1 tarball release.  Posted

here just for those interested.  Will of course be incorporated in the

next release.

modified   g…

FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz – April 11, 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 11 questions. Good luck!

Asahi Linux Runs into Issues with M4 Support

Due to Apple Silicon changes, the Asahi Linux project is at odds with adding support for the M4 chips.

Formatting Text in Logseq

Make your notes more attractive by formatting the text with quotes and call out boxes.

gcl @ Savannah: GCL 2.7.1 has been released

Greetings! 

Greetings!  The GCL team is happy to announce the release of version

2.7.1, the culmination of many years of work and a major development

in the evolution of GCL.  Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl for

downloading informat…

3rd Party Apps Might Refuse to install due to Ubuntu Pro [Quick Fix]

For old Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 with Ubuntu Pro enabled for extended 5 years of Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) updates support, it might sometimes cause 3rd party apps refuse to install and even output unmet dependency issue. This is because ESM apps have higher package priority 510, while most others are default to 500. […]

Gary Benson: Python antipattern: Close in finally

Don’t do this:
thing = Thing()
try:
thing.do_stuff()
finally:
thing.close()

Do do this:
from contextlib import closing

with closing(Thing()) as thing:
thing.do_stuff()

Why is the second better? Using contextlib.closing() ties closin…

Overclock / Downclock GPU & Limit Power in Ubuntu via LACT

Want to give more control of your graphics card in Ubuntu & other Linux? Here’s a graphical to do the job. It’s LACT, a free open-source GTK4 application written in Rust. With it, you may monitor and control NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD GPUs with following options: View detailed GPU information. Control GPU fan speed. Overclock […]

How to Verify Debian and Ubuntu Packages Using MD5 Checksums

The post How to Verify Debian and Ubuntu Packages Using MD5 Checksums first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Have you ever wondered why a given binary or package installed on your system does not work according to your
The post Ho…

Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 7.7

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Paweł Pijanowski has announced the release of SparkyLinux 7.7, the latest update of the project’s set of lightweight distributions based on the current stable release of Debian: “The 7th…

GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.24.1

GNUnet 0.24.1

This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.24.0.
It fixes some regressions and minor bugs.

Links

Source:

https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.24.1.tar.gz

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http…

FSF Events: Community meetup Toronto Canada

Come for the pizza, stay for the free and open source hardware and software demos! All fediverse friends are welcome!

FSF Blogs: Interview with Mia Bajić

Source: Planet GNU

grep @ Savannah: grep-3.12 released [stable]

This is to announce grep-3.12, a stable release.

It’s been nearly two years! There have been two bug fixes and many
harder-to-see improvements via gnulib. Thanks to Paul Eggert for doing
so much of the work and Bruno Haible for all the testing an…