Repent Walpurgis! It’s the Big Halloween Fundraiser Special
KDE started trick or treating early, and will continue after it’s late.
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Gnome Foundation’s Financial Woes Worsen
The Gnome Foundation indicates increased belt tightening in its new budget due to continuing financial woes.
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Fuduntu’s Founder Returns to Scratch Another Itch With SteamFork
What do you do when you own a handheld gaming device that you really wish was a Steam Deck? You install SteamFork on it, that’s what you do.
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If You Wanna Be Gnome’s Executive Director You Have a Week to Apply
Two months after Holly Million tendered her resignation — and a month-and-a-half after leaving — the financially strapped Gnome Foundation announces that the search is on for a new executive director.
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10 Best Linux Desktop Environments of All Time
The post 10 Best Linux Desktop Environments of All Time first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .One exciting aspect of Linux, unlike Windows and Mac OS X, is its support for numerous desktop environments. This has
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The Unintended Consequences Linux’s Wayland Adoption Will Have on BSD
Does Wayland becoming the defacto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
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Poof! Shaman Holly Million, Gnome’s Executive Director Disappears on July 31
Professional shaman Holly Million, who became Gnome’s executive director in October, has evidently participated in a banishing ritual and will disappear from Gnome at the end of this month.
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How to Install Cinnamon Desktop On Ubuntu 24.04
The post How to Install Cinnamon Desktop On Ubuntu 24.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you are looking for a simple and neat desktop environment, then you should try out the Cinnamon desktop environment.
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System 76 Says Cosmic Desktop Is Late but on Schedule
While the alpha release of the new scratch-built-in-Rust Cosmic desktop has been pushed back by a couple of months, that’s not expected to delay the launch of the production ready version that will be the default DE in Pop!_OS 24.04 later this year.
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System76 Says Cosmic Desktop’s Alpha Release Is Almost Here
We could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us we’ll see a production ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this year’s LinuxFest Northwest.
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All Systems Are ‘Go’ as KDE Plasma 6 Readies for Its Prime Time Debut
The first beta release of KDE Plasma 6, which exchanges X11 for Wayland, was released last week. The second beta will be released in two weeks.
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Will Fedora 40 Drop X and Totally Embrace Wayland?
There’s a good chance that when Fedora 40 is released in April, that it will become the first major Linux distro to be released without X.
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Roundup: War’s Effect on Gaza Tech, Microsoft’s Howto for Installing Linux; California’s Right to Repair Law, and More
This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.
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FOSS Week in Review: LibreOffice Fixes Bugs, KDE Release Plans, Automakers ‘F’ on Privacy, and more…
In this week’s roundup, we look at the winding down of LibreOffice’s 7.5 series, how KDE’s getting it together for Plasma’s upcoming 6.0 release, Mozilla’s look at privacy issues and modern automobiles, and more.
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Why Your Favorite Extension Might Not Work With Gnome 45
None of the Gnome extensions that are in use now will work on Gnome 45 when it’s released on September 20.
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KDE Gear 23.08 Arrived With Plenty of Changes: Here’s What’s New
In many ways, KDE Gear’s apps supply the backbone on the Linux desktop experience. Newly released KDE Gear 23.08 brings many changes to these apps, and we look at them here.
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Budgie 10.8 Released: Here’s What Has Changed and What Is New
The desktop environment that started as a side project for the Solus Linux distribution but has gone on to become included in many other distros, including Ubuntu Budgie, is out with a new release with new features and improvements.
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System76 Is Making Cases for Building Do-It-Yourself Computers
Now you can build your own computer using the same chassis and cooling technology that System76 uses in their popular Thelio line of desktops.
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Xfce Wins Our ‘Favorite Linux Desktop’ Poll
Xfce takes home the award for “Favorite Linux Desktop Environment.” Coming in second in our poll was KDE Plasma, followed by Gnome and Cinnamon.
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Xfce 4.18’s Improvements Include Thunar and Under the Hood
When Xfce 4.18 was released in December, many of the desktop environment’s users might not have noticed many changes. That’s because most of the changes were under the hood, and its popular file manager, Thunar, went through a major overhaul.
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