Your old laptop can ‘shine on’ after Windows 10’s sunset with this Linux distro

If you’re facing the end of support for your operating system, I recommend giving Siduction a try – especially if you’re a Pink Floyd fan.

Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux

Mozilla Firefox 134 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Make Steam App Look Modern & Native in Ubuntu

Want to beatify your Steam app window in Ubuntu or other Linux. Here’s a free open-source project to do the job in GNOME. It’s Adwaita for Steam, a skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app. With it, the title and tool bars will be merged into a compact GNOME Client-Side Decoration […]

‘Everything Open’ Is Reinventing Open Conferencing in Post Pandemic Oz

Although it appears that after a 22-year run that linux.conf.au is now a thing of the past, the folks who brought it to you have launched a new conference that’s about… well, everything open.
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Autostart AppImage Applications in Linux

Want to run an AppImage application automatically at boot time? You could do that with a little effort. Here’s step by step process to accomplish it.

How To Import and Export Firefox History

This tutorial will help you export and import history of Mozilla Firefox web browser. This is beneficial if you want to move your history from one computer to another. And this is compatible with different web browsers as long as they are Firefox famil…

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1103

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: elementary OS 8.0
News: Debian testing its installer for Trixie, Pop!_OS continues to face delays, Ubuntu Studio upgrades not working, Absolute …

How to Change Your Prompt in Bash Shell in Ubuntu

Customize your bash shell easy with this simple guide so you are happy with your linux shell environment

How to Change Your Prompt in Bash Shell in Ubuntu

Customize your bash shell easy with this simple guide so you are happy with your linux shell environment

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 5th, 2025

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 5th, 2025, brings news about Debian 13 installer alpha, KDE Plasma 6.2.5, Nobara 41, PeaZip 10.2, as well as all the latest distro and software updates.
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Change the Priority of PPAs or Apt Package Repositories in Ubuntu

This is a step by step guide shows how to set the priority of certain packages, launchpad PPAs, and/or other apt repositories in Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and their based systems. Besides using the default system repositories, we can also install additional packages from third-party or software’s own repositories. For example, user may update LibreOffice […]

KDE Connect: How To Integrate Kubuntu Laptop and Android Phone

This tutorial will help you take benefits from KDE Connect one of Kubuntu built-in applications that can connect to your Android phone. It is useful to send files from phone to laptop and vice versa, and it is very quick thanks to it uses wifi connecti…

Development Release: Porteus 5.1 Alpha

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live desktop medium based on Slackware Linux. The project has published a development release, Porteus 5.1 Alpha, which includes Linux 6.12.9, Pip…

Refine – New Graphical Configuration Tool for GNOME Desktop

For Linux with GNOME, there’s now new configuration tool to tweak advanced settings in this desktop environment. It’s Refine, a free open-source tool that uses GTK4 + LibAdwaita for a modern UI to tweak desktop settings in Fedora Workstation, Arch, Manjaro Linux, etc with vanilla GNOME Desktop. Sadly, this app so far does NOT work […]

remotecontrol @ Savannah: Hackers Terrify US Intelligence After Infiltrating Guam

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-03/chinese-cyber-hackers-terrify-us-intelligence-after-infiltrating-guam

5 of the Best Flashcard Apps in Linux

Looking to improve your memory retention and study routine? Check out our top picks for the best flashcard apps available in Linux today.
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FSF Blogs: FSD meeting recap 2025-01-03

Check out the important work our volunteers accomplished at today’s Free Software Directory (FSD) IRC meeting.

FSF Blogs: Free Software Supporter — Issue 201, January 2025

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 231,379 other activists.

FSF Blogs: December GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Eighteen new GNU releases!

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of December 31, 2024):

mailutils @ Savannah: GNU Mailutils Version 3.18

Version 3.18 of GNU Mailutils is available for download.

A short summary of changes follows.

New debugging shortcut: all

Using all in mailutils debug level specification enables all debugging categories.  Syntactically, all can be used whereve…