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.
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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…
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!
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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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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.
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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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Many free software supporters worldwide are forced to give up their
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You can customise GNOME Shell notifications, including position on screen, RegEx filtering, and custom colours using the Notification Configurator extension.
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KDE Frameworks 6.16 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new!
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Calibre 8.6 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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This is a stable release of GNU ap2s, the “anything to PostScript”
converter.
This release contains a small fix to remove some unused debug code that was
not C23-compatible. There is no need to upgrade unless you’re having trouble
building a2ps…
Read MoreUbuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware.
You’re reading Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Provides a Major Mesa Upgrade, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not…