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…
Read MoreImagine getting the opportunity to select which shell you want during the installation of your favorite Linux distribution. That’s now a thing.
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Read MoreFor 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 […]
Read MoreThe post How Linux Services and Daemons Work (and How to Control Them) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .When starting out with Linux, you may encounter the terms “services” and “daemons” quite frequently, which refer to back…
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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…
Read MoreSeeking a fast, modern terminal for Ubuntu? Rio is a cross-platform, hardware-accelerated terminal emulator built in Rust with novel features.
You’re reading Rio is a Fast, WebGPU-Powered Terminal for Ubuntu, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprod…
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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreIn 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!
The post CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation appeared f…
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.
The post GStreamer 1.28 Promises Vulkan H.264 Encoder, AMD HIP Plugin, and More appeared first on 9to5Linux – …
VS Code 1.102, the June release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released few days ago on Wednesday. Since the release, Copilot Chat is finally open-sourced under the MIT license. And, the source code, is available at this github page. As you see in the screenshot, the chat view has a new “Configure Chat” gear menu, allowing […]
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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A sizeable database performance boost is available in the latest release of open source ebook manager, view and converter Calibre, plus plenty of bug fixes.
You’re reading Calibre 8.6.0 Delivers Dramatic Database Speed Boost, a blog post from OMG! Ubu…
What happens when two of open source’s most controversial reformers decide the old rules no longer work? Are you ready for the license that could change everything?
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