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Review: Rhino Linux 2025.1 and MX Linux 23.5 with Xfce 4.20
News: GhostBSD plans move its base to FreeBSD RELEASE, Redox stabilizes its ABI, UBports tes…
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Read MoreWhen you log in to Ubuntu 24.10 an audio clip plays to greet you — a lengthy audio clip that slowly builds to a plinky-plonky crescendo that you—or those around you—may tire of having to sit through! But you can turn Ubuntu’s startup sound off, o…
Read MoreGNOME 48, the Linux desktop environment that will be default for Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Workstation, now is in Beta stage. The release team announced it just a few hours ago in GNOME Discourse, along with an installer image for testing and porting extensions. GNOME added experimental HDR support since version 44. It’s a […]
Read MoreGNOME 48 Beta is now available for public testing with a new GNOME Display Control utility, support for configuring HDR via the DisplayConfig D-Bus API, and more. Here’s what’s new!
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GNOME 47.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, improvements, and updated translations.
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openSUSE Linux announced earlier this week that they are adopting SELinux as the default mandatory access control (MAC) system for new openSUSE Tumbleweed installations. Until …
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A new version of Tiling Shell, the flexible window snapping assistant for GNOME Shell, is available. Tiling Shell v16.2 now surfaces nifty ‘Window Suggestions’, a feature introduced in last month’s v16.0 release, when using edge tilin…
Read MoreHappy news to us that GNU Image Manipulation Program now almost reaches version 3.0. This long time favorite application of us, also known as GIMP, is in rapid development stages and the Release Candidate or RC versions are already available for us to …
Read MoregThumb, the free open-source image viewer and organizer designed for GNOME, released new version 3.12.7 a few days ago. Like past few releases, gThumb 3.12.7 includes only minor new features, bug-fixes, and translation updates. For WebP image format, the release can now save the EXIF data, meaning the metadata about camera settings, date and time, […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The FreeBSD project has announced a new development snapshot for FreeBSD 13.5. The snapshot, which is labelled version 13.5-BETA2, introduces extended timestamps for UFS, updates cloud i…
Read MoreFastAPI is a web framework based on Python for creating API services. It’s a modern, fast, high-performance framework supporting asynchronous operations.
Read MoreTLP, the laptop battery power saving tool, released new 1.8.0 version few days ago! The new release add battery charge threshold support for new laptops, including Chromebooks, DELL, and Framework laptops. With Linux Kernel 6.12 or later, TLP 1.8.0 finally supports for setting start and stop battery charge threshold for DELL laptops. With Linux Kernel […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Chimera Linux project has announced a new snapshot of the team’s rolling release distribution. “The images come with a fresh version of apk-tools. This version finally supports sever…
Read MoreKDE Frameworks 6.11 open-source software suite is now available with new search providers for KRunner, keyboard navigation improvements, as well as other changes.
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AirDrop is a proprietary wireless ad hoc service. The service transfers files among supported Macintosh computers and iOS devices by means of close-range wireless communication. AirDrop is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open so…
Read MoreFwupd 2.0.6 open-source Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with support for HPE Gen10/Gen10+ devices using Redfish, new features, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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Fwupd 2.0.6 open-source Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with support for HPE Gen10/Gen10+ devices using Redfish, new features, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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We’re revising our weekly news quiz, which we pretty much abandoned three or four years. This inaugural quiz for the reboot is only seven questions, so it’s a quick in-and-out, win-or-lose for those who want to play.
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Calibre 7.26 open-source ebook management software is now available for download with various new features and several bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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