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Distribution Release: Melawy Linux 2025.07.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Valeria Fadeeva has announced the release of a new version of Melawy Linux, an Arch-based desktop Linux distribution with a customised KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. The new versio…

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Distribution Release: Melawy Linux 2025.07.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Valeria Fadeeva has announced the release of a new version of Melawy Linux, an Arch-based desktop Linux distribution with a customised KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. The new versio…

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GPD MicroPC 2: Souped-Up Successor to Original Pocket PC

Everything receives a sequel eventually, and so it is so for the GPD MicroPC. A souped-up, second-gen successor to the small, serial-port-packing original goes on sale this summer. It boasts a bigger, brighter screen that rotates, a beefier Intel-based…

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Ansible 101: Install, Configure, and Automate Linux in Minutes

Install/configure Ansible on the Control Node, then install/configure SSH on remote hosts. Lastly, add host IPs in the hosts file and create playbooks to automate Linux.

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GIMP 3.2 Adds New Painting Mode, Photoshop Patterns + More

GIMP 3.2 will include a new Overwrite painting mode, support for Photoshop pattern files, and expanded file format support.
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GNU Taler news: ApplePay vs. Alternative Payment Services

by Marc Stibane

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openSUSE Leap 16: Bridging Enterprise-Grade Stability with Community-Driven Innovation

by George Whittaker

openSUSE Leap 16 marks a significant evolution in the openSUSE project, integrating the robustness of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) with the dynamism of community con…

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Debian 13 Installer Now Supports Rescuing of Btrfs Systems Installed via Calamares

Debian 13 “Trixie” installer gets a second Release Candidate with support for rescuing Btrfs systems installed via the Calamares installer, as well as other enhancements.
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KDE Gear 25.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 25.04 Series

KDE Gear 25.04.3 is now available as the third and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.04 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications.
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Vivaldi 7.5 Browser Adds Tab Stack Colours, New DNS Settings

Colourful tab stacks and concise tab context menu are the headline changes on offer the latest update to the Vivaldi web browser.
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FSF Blogs: Our small team vs millions of bots

Read the latest update from the FSF tech team.

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Libreboot 25.06 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support

Libreboot 25.06 open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware is now available for download with support for new hardware, as well as other improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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Swap Two- and Three-Finger Tap Actions in Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial shows how to remap touchpad tapping, so you Ubuntu will use 2-finger tap on touchpad as middle click (or paste), and 3-finger tap as right-click action. GNOME, the default desktop in Ubuntu, has switched to Wayland and is going to drop classic Xorg session, the old method to remap touchpad tap buttons does […]

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Thunderbird 140 Adds ‘Mark as Spam’ and ‘Mark as Starred’ Actions to Notifications

Mozilla Thunderbird 140 open-source email client is now available for download with various new features and many bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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FOSS Weekly #25.27: System Info, Retro Tools, Fedora 32-bit Update, Torvalds vs Bcachefs and More Linux Stuff

Goal achieved thanks to you wonderful folks.

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www @ Savannah: Malware in Proprietary Software – June 2025 Additions

The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.

The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. N…

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GNOME 49 Makes Papers a Core App, Replacing Evince

When Ubuntu 25.04 made Papers its default PDF viewer rather than keep shipping Evince, it did so knowing that the expectation was that upstream GNOME would do the same — now it has. The GNOME 49 Alpha release will ship Papers as a GNOME Core App, repla…

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Ubuntu Fixes Missing File Thumbnails on Desktop

Image, PDF and other supported file thumbnails will once again appear on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop, after nearly a year of not showing.
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Fedora Continues 32-Bit Support

In a move that should come as a relief to some portions of the Linux community, Fedora will continue supporting 32-bit architecture.

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Converseen Image Converter Added Revert Check & New Themes

Converseen, the popular batch image converting / resizing application, released new 0.15.0.0 version yesterday. The new release of this popular free open-source app finally added options to choose a different theme, though only few choices are available so far. As you may know, Converseen is a cross platform application works on Windows, Linux, and macOS. […]

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