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GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fixes

GNOME 47.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, improvements, and updated translations.
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KDE Plasma 6.3 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment is now available with various new features and improvements for Plasma and its components. Here’s what’s new!
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GhostBSD Has Scheduled an Online Conference Focused on Desktop BSD

Desktop use of BSD operating systems will take center stage on March 29, with the launch of GhostBSDCon 2025.
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Nate Graham Moves ‘This Week in Plasma’ Column to KDE’s Website — Takes New Role

Graham indicates that he might be going to move into more of an editorship position with the column going forward.
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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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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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