Ahead of the Zorin OS 17 release expected later this month, a beta version has been made available for download and testing. Zorin OS 17 rebases on top of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and the Linux 6.2 kernel but, interestingly, ships with GNOME 43 and not GNOME 4…
Read MoreRocky Linux becomes the last of the major RHEL clones to catch up with Red Hat’s latest and greatest. Here’s what you should know.
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For the first time in its three year’s of existence, AlmaLinux didn’t release its new version within hours of a new RHEL release. That’s because AlmaLinux is no longer just a copy and paste RHEL clone.
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The Fedora Project has released Fedora Workstation 39, the latest version of its flagship desktop Linux operating system. Fedora Workstation 39 brings a number of new features and improvements, including an updated desktop experience with GNOME 45, bet…
Read MoreThere’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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Also included in this FOSS Week in Review: The Linux Foundation’s upcoming Technical Advisory Board election.
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This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.
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Although the “live” version Ubuntu 23.10 remains temporarily unavailable while Canonical works out problems with hate speech in the Ukrainian translation, we can tell you what you can expect when it’s finally available.
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Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: OpenPubkey goes to Linux Foundation, Adding vector support to MySQL for AI, and the results of last weeks rolling release poll.
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Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: Gnome’s new due date, reader’s say Red Hat’s changed for the worse under IBM, and a new poll asks how you like your distros released.
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Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 is now available to download. This official stable release follows a couple weeks of diligent testing on a beta build. There are no major changes compared to that beta so if you downloaded and installed it you can …
Read MoreOn Tuesday, AlmaLinux announced that it has obtained FIPS 140-3 certification for its Linux distro which is primarily used in data centers by enterprises.
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In this week’s roundup we look at ZFS’s return to Ubuntu as an install option (and why it was removed in the first place), how the Nigerian Prince is adopting AI for phishing, Linux Torvalds fabulous impersonation of E.F. Hutton, and more.
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Currently an experimental project, Slowroll is a hybrid distro that seeks to meld the stability of a fixed release distro like openSUSE Leap with the advantages of a rolling release like openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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The “test week,” is for testing Linux kernel 6.5 ahead of the release of Fedora 39, and the “test day” is for testing changes made to Toolbx container software.
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Armbian and Linux From Scratch both had new releases this week, and ReiserFS was back in the news. Also: news headlines that gave us a chuckle.
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The cryptocurrency funded Brave Browser has a new proprietary AI assistant; new versions of Kali, KDE Gear, and LibreOffice; with changes on the way in The Document Foundation’s versioning scheme.
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New users of Bodhi Linux might be confused about which of the four available ISO images to use. We’ve got your back.
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Lovers of Linux distros that run well on lower-end hardware rejoice for Bodhi Linux 7.0 has been released and is now available to download. Bodhi Linux 7.0 is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and uses the Enlightenment-based desktop and Moksha …
Read MoreIn the age of computers, 30 is a ripe old age. Happy birthday, Debian.
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