The wallpaper competition for Ubuntu 26.10, Stonking Stingray, is now open for submission! Top TWO of the 3 categories will be included in the .iso images. Everyone can participate, by either submitting an image taken from a camera or made by digital creative tools, or just voting your favorite ones! And, you can get cool […]
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editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such
as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural,
interactive programming language designed to descr…
Read MoreSparkleShare’s funding success shows that grants can revive struggling open source projects—but only if maintainers can find the organizations ready to support them.
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. SparkyLinux is a Debian-based distribution with a variety of desktop editions. The project’s latest version, SparkyLinux 8.4, reintroduces 32-bit support for x86 machines. “A year ago, D…
Read MoreUnless a kernel patch is a valid security fix, it will be rejected if it was created using AI.
Read MoreLinux Mint has announced an overhaul in its kernel management, and will now automatically delete old kernels once a week. Kernel management is moving out of Update Manager and into the System Administration tool on both standard and LMDE versions and i…
Read MoreThe CLI installer’s new experimental profiles target the upcoming Server Edition, while Shelly gets a full rewrite.
Read MoreA new Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO is available for download, powered by Linux kernel 7.0. The distro made the first Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO available in March, with an installer that boots Linux 6.17 by default. That image remains available to download alo…
Read MoreTransmission, the BitTorrent client that’s default in Ubuntu (when installed in “Extended selection” mode since 24.04), will be possibly forked into “ReTransmission”. Someone asked “Why has the project been forked as ‘retransmission’?” in the project discussions page, and the maintainer answered: There are several reasons, but the easiest one to explain quickly is it solves […]
Read MoreTransmission, the BitTorrent client that’s default in Ubuntu (when installed in “Extended selection” mode since 24.04), will be possibly forked into “ReTransmission”. Someone asked “Why has the project been forked as ‘retransmission’?” in the project discussions page, and the maintainer answered: There are several reasons, but the easiest one to explain quickly is it solves […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CachyOS project has published a new snapshot. The distribution’s August release features improvements to the system installers, the welcome window, and handheld device detection. “Ca…
Read MoreThe new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn’t apply to the wider Rust project.
Read MoreQPDF, the popular command-line tool for transforming, inspecting, and repairing PDF files, released new 12.4.0 version today. The new version of this free open-source software library and CLI tool rewrote the Tab completion function for zsh & bash shells, introduced a few security updates, and fixed various issues. Previously, qpdf itself was responsible for providing […]
Read MoreThe post Hyperswitch on Linux: A Self-Hosted Payment Switch for Multiple Processors first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Hyperswitch is an open-source payments switch from Juspay that you can run on your own Linux server. This g…
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Battle of the Children of Void
News: Commits to AUR paused, Mageia highlights useful applications, Proxmox introduces ARM support
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If you have been using an ecommerce store to place online orders or have been using multiple softwares for work, it is very likely that one or many of those would be using MySQL on the backend to store, retrieve and manage data. MySQL is a relational database that stores data in a structured format […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. iDeal OS, an MX Linux-based desktop distribution with focus on privacy and security, has been updated to version 2026.08.08. This release replaces Firefox with Waterfox as the new defaul…
Read MoreI flummoxed to read a report about how much memory Microsoft’s Weather app uses on Windows 11 – more than 1GB just to render what is, ostensibly, a fancy table of stats. I was less flummoxed to check the memory usage of Mousam, my current go-to w…
Read MoreLightDM, the lightweight display manager originally developed by Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), returns by releasing version 1.33.0 a few days ago. It’s the first release in four years, that features bug-fixes for the issues since the last 1.32.0 and Qt6 support, while Qt5 will continue to be available. LightDM (Light Display Manager) was the […]
Read MoreKagi has released a new beta of Orion for Linux, a WebKitGTK-based port of its popular browser for macOS and IOS. Orion for Linux v0.4.1 builds on the v0.3.0 public beta, released in May, adding more features found on its macOS and iOS versions and imp…
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