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LibreOffice 24.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 24.2 as the latest stable version of this popular, powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite for GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows systems.
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Mesa 24.0 Linux Graphics Stack Released with NVK and RADV Driver Improvements

The Mesa 24.0 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update that introduces new features and many improvements for several of the included graphics drivers.
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Ubuntu 24.04 Plans Switch to Thunderbird Snap from DEB

If you’re an Ubuntu user who uses the Thunderbird e-mail client there are some interesting changes on the way you will want to know about. First up, Canonical’s Thunderbird snap package is now being built using source code rather than repac…

GNOME Finally Decides to Step Up & Revamp its Documentation For Contributors

The GNOME Project Handbook (handbook.gnome.org) is meant to act as a one-stop documentation resource for GNOME contributors, not for providing user documentation, homepages for apps/libraries, or technical documentation.
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Microsoft Says VS Code Will Work With Ubuntu 18.04

If you’re a user of Microsoft’s VS Code and you’re still using Ubuntu 18.04, you can breathe a sigh of release that the IDE will continue working… for a while.

GNOME 46 Plans OneDrive File Access in Nautilus

Support for accessing Microsoft OneDrive files through Nautilus is planned for GNOME 46, which is due for release next month. GVfs (GNOME virtual filesystem) provides a number of backends that allow SFTP, SMB, HTTP, MTP, WebDAV and other mounts/shares …

How To Create Wifi to Wifi Hotspot on Xubuntu Xfce

This tutorial will help you create wifi to wifi hotspot (also known as repeater) on your Xubuntu XFCE laptop. This means receiving internet access from a wifi and giving (sharing) it away as another wifi. You will need two WLAN adapters, for example, o…

Cygwin 3.5.0 Drops Older Windows Platform Support

New Cygwin 3.5.0 drops Windows 7/8 support, introduces advanced file system features, improved package info, and more. Learn what’s new!
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Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Beta Unveils Revolutionary Hybrid Debian Base and OCI Image Updates

After many months of development, the Vanilla OS 2 “Orchid” beta is now available for testing.
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How to Install GO (golang 1.22) in Ubuntu 22.04

Go programming language announced the new 1.22 release this Tuesday! Here’s the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu & other Linux. What’s New in Go 1.22: The variables declared by a “for” loop were created once and updated by each iteration. In new 1.22 release, each iteration of the loop creates new […]

15 Must-Know FFmpeg Commands for Video, Audio & Image Conversion

The post 15 Must-Know FFmpeg Commands for Video, Audio & Image Conversion first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .FFmpeg is a handy multimedia framework that helps you work with different kinds of media files like videos, audio, an…

How to upgrade to Zorin OS 17

Zorin OS now provides a way to upgrade to a newer major version. Here’s how to do that.

tuptime – Tracks Your Linux System’s Past and Future Uptime

The post tuptime – Tracks Your Linux System’s Past and Future Uptime first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Linux system administration involves many activities one of which is monitoring and checking for how long your system has …

How to Map Keys in Vim

To map keys in the Vim editor, the :map command is used followed by a set of keys and commands. However, :unmap command is used to remove the mapping.

Bluesky is now open to all, invite codes no longer required

Bluesky, the much-hyped open-source alternative to X/Twitter, is now open for all — invites code no longer needed! Launched in the spring of last year, Bluesky is a decentralised social network modelled after early Twitter. You sign up, post, follow pe…

How to Install Debian 12 (Bookworm) on Raspberry Pi

You can install Debian 12 on Raspberry Pi by downloading the image file and loading the image onto the Raspberry Pi’s SD Card through BalenaEtcher.

Essential Keyboard Shortcuts and Time-Saving Tips for Linux Productivity

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Linux stands as a beacon of efficiency and flexibility in the world of operating systems, especially favored by developers, system administrators, and power users f…

Enable Fingerprint Reader in Ubuntu 22.04 for ThinkPad T480s

This is a step by step guide shows how to enable fingerprint reader support for Lenovo ThinkPad T480/T480s, X1 Carbon 6th gen, X1 Yoga 3rd gen, X280, etc with 06cb:009a device in Ubuntu 22.04. Ubuntu has fingerprint reader support out-of-the-box using libfprint, and provides option to enable fingerprint login in Users settings page. However, the […]