Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Released with VoLTE and Waydroid Improvements

Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 is now rolling out to all supported devices with various improvements and fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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Alpine Linux 3.22.0: Not Just for Servers, Containers, and IoT

Everybody knows that Alpine Linux is a great base OS for containers and IoT devices, and works great for running servers in data centers. We decided to see how well it performs on a desktop…
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Distribution Release: UBports 20.04 OTA-9

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The UBports team has released an update to the project’s mobile operating system, 20.04 OTA-9. The new update focuses on three main improvements: “Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-9 contains only …

Plasma 6.5 Promises Better Memory Optimization

With the stable Plasma 6.4 on the horizon, KDE has a few new tricks up its sleeve for Plasma 6.5.

Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin”: A Bold Leap Forward with GNOME 48 and HDR Brilliance

by George Whittaker

Ubuntu has long stood as a bastion of accessibility, polish, and power in the Linux ecosystem. With the arrival of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin”, Canonica…

www @ Savannah: Malware in Proprietary Software – May 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…

Distribution Release: Murena 3.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Murena organization has announced a new release of their mobile operating system, /e/OS, along with a series of new features. “/e/OS’s Advanced Privacy feature now offers users a com…

FSF Blogs: FSD meeting recap 2025-05-30

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

Stretch Break Linux App Reminds You to Stop Pixel-Gawping

Stretch Break is a simple reminder app for Linux that prompts you to take a break, helping prevent eye strain and promote healthy screen habits.
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FSF Blogs: May GNU spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring thirteen new GNU releases: Automake, Gettext, and more!

Thirteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of May 31, 2025):

Gradia – New App to Make Your Screenshots Prettier for Social Media

Looking for an app to quickly edit your images or screenshots for social media, blog posts, or websites? Here’s a new app to do the job in Linux Desktop. It’s Gradia, a free and open-source tool written mostly in Python programming language, and uses GTK4 and LibAdwaita for its modern user interface that well integrated […]

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Increase Swap Memory Size

In this article I explain how to increase the swap file. This helps performance on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of RAM or less.
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Distribution Release: Oracle Linux 9.6

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Gursewak Sokhi has announced the release of Oracle Linux 9 Update 6, the new stable build of Oracle’s Linux distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Th…

elementary OS 8 Updates Deliver More New Features

The team behind elementary OS recently detailed a number of improvements to recently roll out to users of the distro. Gala, the default window manager used by the Pantheon desktop environment, is described as seeing an “absolutely massive release…

Audacious 4.5 Beta Brings New Plugins, Better PipeWire Support

The first beta of Audacious 4.5 is available for testing. It brings improved PipeWire support, better Qt/GTK parity, and a number of new plugins and skins.
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The best Linux VPNs of 2026: Expert tested and reviewed

We tested a range of Linux-ready VPNs with easy-to-use apps, great server networks, and strong speeds to find the best options in the market today.

CrowPi 3: An All-in-one AI Learning Kit With Cyberdeck Feel

A Swiss Army knife for coding education as this kit transforms the programming concepts into tangible experiences. Learn from more than a hundred interactive projects.

Sharing PATH, Aliases, and Functions Between Bash and Zsh

Discover how to seamlessly share PATH, aliases, and functions between Bash and Zsh.

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Gnome’s New Director Tackles Funding, Pride and Prejudice

Given the current political climate in the US and parts of Europe, it’s not surprising that the haters have been targeting one of open source’s most beloved projects.
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1124

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Picking up a Pico
News: Rhino Linux tests Plasma session and presents updated package manager, Arch installer offers options for Btrfs snapshots…