OpenRC now requires services local, localmount and netmount to be added to runlevel default.
This can be done with commands:
rc-update add local default
rc-update add localmount default
rc-update add netmount default
The update brings experimental u…
KDE’s Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.
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Consider this post a little apropos of nothing given that nothing has actually been formally announced yet, but it seems the long-rumoured merge of Google’s Chrome OS and Android operating systems is indeed happening. That’s according to Sa…
Imagine getting the opportunity to select which shell you want during the installation of your favorite Linux distribution. That’s now a thing.
I was pleasantly surprised at how ParrotOS could accommodate users of any skill level, so I could easily recommend this Linux distribution to just about anyone.
ParrotOS home edition not only makes for a great general-purpose operating system, but also includes privacy software that makes it easy to browse anonymously.
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For beginners who want to install (or already have) Windows apps / games through wine, here’s a new graphical app to make things stupid simple! It’s WineCharm, a free open-source Python written application that uses GTK4 + LibAwaita for a modern UI well integrated with GNOME Desktop. Wine is a popular free open-source software for […]
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Review: openSUSE’s MicroOS and RefreshOS 2.5
News: Bazzite makes Bazaar its default Flatpak store, Alpine plans Wayback release, Wayland and X11 benchma…
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 13th, 2025, brings news about GNOME 49 Alpha, Amarok 3.3, Calibre 8.6, Ubuntu 24.10 EOL, CachyOS’s July 2025 release, Parrot OS 6.4, OBS Studio 31.1, GParted Live 1.7.0-8, KDE Frameworks 6.16, Wayland 1.24, and mo…
Seeking a fast, modern terminal for Ubuntu? Rio is a cross-platform, hardware-accelerated terminal emulator built in Rust with novel features.
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 1.7.0-8, a new stable release of the project’s Debian-based specialist live CD designed for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. A new release of CachyOS, a highly-optimised, Arch Linux-based distribution with KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop in live mode, is now available for download. The 250713 version enabl…
In May, NordVPN got full scale on board with Linux with it released a Linux client. We just took it for a spin!
The post NordVPN Now Has a Linux GUI Client and We Gave It a Look appeared first on FOSS Force.
The CachyOS ISO snapshot for July 2025 is now available for download with a long-awaited requested feature and other improvements.. Here’s what’s new!
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GParted Live 1.7.0-8 open-source partition editor is now available for download with a mechanism to reduce the random order of block devices.
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With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.
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GStreamer 1.28 open-source multimedia framework has entered development promising many new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect.
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