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February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Do you need antivirus on Linux?

If you’ve been a Windows user for years, then you are well aware of the need for antivirus software. It’s a given. But does the same hold true for the open-source operating system?

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Creating Arch Linux Live USB on Windows, Linux, and Mac

Are you planning to install Arch Linux on your computer? If so, you will need a bootable USB drive to get started. To create one, you can follow these detailed instructions that cover the process for Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. These ste…

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Miracle-WM: New Tiling Wayland Compositor Based on Mir

Fans of tiling window managers like i3, Sway, and Hyprland will be interested to hear there’s a new option in town called Miracle-WM. Created by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek, Miracle-WM is notable for being a Wayland compositor that is base…

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Sparky Linux is a blazing-fast distro that can keep your older machines running for years

If you have old computers sitting around, why not give them new life with this Debian-based Linux distribution that’s as easy to use as it is quick?

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

GNOME 46 Beta Released for Testing

GNOME 46, the default desktop environment for next Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40, now is in Beta stage. It’s now the best time for developers to test their applications and shell extensions. Gnome 46 features explicit Global Search for the Files, redesigned Privacy settings page, added new System panel in Gnome Control Center, and support […]

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Drawpile 2.2.1 Released with Experimental HiDPI Scaling Support

Drawpile, free open-source collaborative drawing program, announced new 2.2.1 release yesterday! This is the first update for the 2.2 release series that comes with numerous bug-fixes, as well as some new features. The server now implements WebSocket support, which is available with the –websocket-port and –websocket-listen options. And, it’s improved with some new actions including: […]

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Open-Source IRC Client Announces Final Release

The open-source IRC client HexChat has announced its final ever release. HexChat 2.16.2 arrives with a small selection of bug fixes and new features for its long-standing fans to enjoy, but also bad news: after almost 12 years of continued development …

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

8 Open-Source Password Managers to Enhance Your Privacy Game

Secure your credentials with some of the best open-source password managers.
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February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

How to Install New Gambas 3.19.0 in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04

Gambas released new 3.19.0 few days ago. Here’s the new features and how to to install guide for Ubuntu users! Gambas is a full-featured object-oriented language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. It’s made up of a compiler, interpreter, archiver, scripter, development environment, and many extension components, for easily developing command-line, GTK2/GTK3, Qt, […]

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

How to Remove Password from PDF Files in Linux

A neat trick to get rid of the annoyance of entering the password each time you open a password protected file.

February 19, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Smem – Reports Memory Consumption Per-Process and Per-User in Linux

The post Smem – Reports Memory Consumption Per-Process and Per-User in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Memory management, particularly monitoring memory usage, is crucial for your Linux system. There are many tools av…

February 18, 2024 | by Arround The Web

How to Use Awk for Text Filtering with Pattern-Specific Actions – Part 3

The post How to Use Awk for Text Filtering with Pattern-Specific Actions – Part 3 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In the third part of the following awk command series, we shall take a look at filtering text or strings base…

February 18, 2024 | by Arround The Web

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1058

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Drauger OS 7.6News: UBports changes release version scheme, TrueNAS to offer faster deduplication, FreeBSD plans to phase out 32-bit processor su…

February 18, 2024 | by Arround The Web

How to Install Android Studio on Linux Mint 21

This guide discusses how to install Android Studio on Linux Mint 21 using the command-line terminal with two different installations option of PPA or Flatpak with Flathub.
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February 18, 2024 | by Arround The Web

elementary OS 8 Enters Early Access, Here’s What’s Planned

Sponsors of elementary OS now have early access to the next major version of the Ubuntu-based desktop Linux operating system. elementary OS 8 is the next major update, following on from this year’s elementary OS 7.x series. It is based on the pac…

February 18, 2024February 18, 2024 | by Arround The Web

A Complete Guide to Lubuntu Default Apps and Their Purposes

This is a full list of all Lubuntu default applications (or list
of Lubuntu components) with their explanations for first time users. Lubuntu is the official variant of Ubuntu with LXDE as the technology of the desktop environment and default applicat…

February 18, 2024 | by Arround The Web

How to Enable JPEG-XL (.jxl) Image Support in Ubuntu 22.04/20.04

Want to open (or export to) .jxl files? Here’s how to enable the image format support in Ubuntu and Debian. JPEG-XL (.jxl) is a royalty-free raster-graphics image format supports both lossy and lossless compression. It includes features such as animation, alpha channels, layers, thumbnails, and has better compression efficiency (60% improvement) comparing to JPEG. GNOME […]

February 18, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Ubuntu Studio opens Wallpaper Competition for Next 24.04

Ubuntu Studio, the official Ubuntu flavor, opens wallpaper competition for the next 24.04 LTS release! Ubuntu Studio is one of the official Ubuntu flavors, that features KDE Plasma desktop environment and aims to general multimedia production. The developer team opens the wallpaper competition on February 16. All users (needs login) can submit their own artworks […]

February 18, 2024 | by Arround The Web

Darktable 4.6.1 Released, New Documentation & Various Fixes

Darktable photography workflow application and RAW developer released new stable 4.6.1 yesterday! The release finished the documentation for the new 4.6 release series, include translations to Ukrainian, Polish and Dutch. And, it now performs image discovery asynchronously in the import dialog. Meaning that long parsing due to huge number of sub-directories and files can be […]

February 17, 2024 | by Arround The Web

How to Install Kodi on Linux Mint 21

This guide explores how to install Kodi on Linux Mint 21, utilizing the command line terminal along with tips to secure it with UFW.
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