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Review: CalyxOS 6.8.20
News: illumos Cafe launched, Arch battles denial of service attack, CachyOS launches web-based package search
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Mozilla’s long-standing antipathy in supporting Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Firefox began to thaw earlier this year, as bods behind the browser finally announced plans to embrace them. And if you installed the Firefox 142 release, you can take…
Read MoreMuddenahalli, August 17th 2025
Dr. Luis Falcón, author of GNU Health and founder of GNU Solidario, received the One World One Family Humanitarian award in the field of Healthcare from Sri Madhusudan Sai, founder of One World One Family mission.
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Read MoreMuddenahalli, August 17th 2025
Dr. Luis Falcón, author of GNU Health and founder of GNU Solidario, received the One World One Family Humanitarian award in the field of Healthcare from Sri Madhusudan Sai, founder of One World One Family mission.
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Read MoreThe 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 24th, 2025, brings news about LibreOffice 25.8, Firefox 142, FFmpeg 8.0, Linux 6.15 EOL, Thunderbird 142, Calibre 8.9, Firefox 143 beta, CachyOS August 2025 release, and more.
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FFmpeg 8.0 introduces Vulkan compute-based codecs for pro-grade video formats, new decoders, Whisper AI transcription, and other assorted improvements.
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The CachyOS ISO snapshot for August 2025 is now available for download with a brand-new dashboard for finding packages and other improvements.. Here’s what’s new!
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CachyOS team has announced the release of the distribution’s August snapshot. The new release adds an option to install the Niri window manager and automated Btrfs boot environments….
Read MoreThis one is for the nonchalant Linux gamers in the house.
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Read MoreFFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 8.0 version almost a year since the last 7.1. The new FFmpeg 8.0, codename “Huffman”, added native decoding support for Samsung’s Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec, Apple’s ProRes RAW, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, RealVideo 6.0, G.728, and ADPCM IMA Xbox. It also added encoding support for APV […]
Read MoreDid you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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Heard of the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) codec? Chances are you have, as this open source, royalty-free video compression standard is championed by the likes of Google, Netflix, Amazon, and even Apple. All for a very good reason (beyond the anyone-is-free-to…
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. MiniOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution which strives to be lightweight, modular, versatile and customisable. The project’s latest version, 5.0.0, is based on Debian 13. “New foundat…
Read MoreThe Pixel 10 Pro has arrived – but competing phones from Samsung, OnePlus, and others might offer better value for your money.
Read MoreHigh Tide, a GTK4/libadawaita app for music streaming service Tidal, has been updated with a bunch of fixes and minor new features. It’s also seen a major version bump, jumping from v0.1.8 to v1.0.0. Given the amount of churn between those two ve…
Read MoreModern GNOME apps do NOT support traditional themes, but you may change the look with custom color schemes! As you know, GNOME has moved to use GTK4 + LibAdwaita for its applications and desktop components. And, so many apps use the LibAwaita library for their modern UI, which however do not support theming (see this […]
Read MoreThe update from the Arch Linux project says that details of the attack will not be made available as long as it’s still ongoing.
The post Arch Linux Posts First Update on Ongoing DDoS Attack appeared first on FOSS Force.
Some Facebook users might have unknowingly let Meta access their photos. Here’s what you can do about it.
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