Of note, Ubuntu 24.04 developer images are now available for the new OrangePi RV2 RISC-V single-board computer (SBC). The news underscores Canonical’s on-going interest in the fledgling, open-source architecture. Last year, DeepComputing released…
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!
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The forty second release of Fedora GNU/Linux is here. It’s released on Wednesday, 16 April 2025 or near Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” release date. It is available in a lot of editions, mainly: Workstation, KDE Plasma Edition (new!), Server, IoT, Cloud …
Here’s some preliminary information about AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s upcoming board election. We’ll keep you up-to-date as we learn more.
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Aditya Shakya has announced the release of Archcraft 2025.04.24, a lightweight, Arch-based Linux distribution with a choice of two window managers and a selection of lightweight applicat…
Want to protect from accidentally invoking power-off commands, or prevent multi-user or public use computers from being shutdown or restart by non-admin users? This tutorial may help by either hiding the power-off menu or adding password request. Hide Power-off Menu (for GNOME only) For Ubuntu and other Linux with GNOME desktop, there’s an extension can […]
The post My Experience – Top Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 25.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .So, you’ve just installed Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” on your computer—congrats! I recently did the same, and let me t…
System76 has just announced the 7th alpha release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. As with earlier alphas, the focus remains on adding the features planned for inclusion in its first stable release (dubbed Epoch 1). It’s always worth…
COSMIC Alpha 7 desktop environment is now available with pinned workspaces, four new accessibility features, as well as various improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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GStreamer 1.26.1 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes, as well as other changes.
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The latest release of OpenMandriva has arrived with a new kernel, an updated Plasma desktop, and a server edition.
We will be discussing ways to interact with the open source community, and discussing ideas for an October event to celebrate the FSF 40th anniversary.
We’re keeping our fingers crossed that Fedora’s upcoming election will take place without all of the controversies that surrounded Open Source Initiative’s recent board election.
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Auto-CPUFreq, automatic CPU speed & power optimizer, released version 2.6.0 with some new features and many bug-fixes. For those who don’t know about auto-cpufreq, it is a free open-source Linux app, which can monitor and automatically manage CPU speed according to battery state, CPU usage, temperature, and system load. The app has a GTK user […]
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RadicallyOpenSecurity performed an external crystal-box security audit of the GNU Taler iOS wallet (excluding wallet-core) funded by NGI. You can find the final report here. We already addressed all significant findings exc…
Want to access your Linux PCs remotely? You can set up RDP the hard way, or you can make those connections the easy way. I’ll step you through the easy option.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bernhard Rosenkränzer has announced the release of OpenMandriva Lx 6.0, a major update of the project’s independently-developed distribution that started as a fork of Mandriva Linux back…
If you installed Ubuntu 25.04 (or upgraded from 24.10 before the gate was closed due to various pernickety issues) you might have noticed that window buttons in GTK apps. Ubuntu user Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes certainly did, filing bug report to report t…