Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Arrives This Christmas with Dark Apps and Other Visual Changes

Linux Mint 20.3 will be dubbed “Una” and will be the third major update to the Linux Mint 20 series based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series, which will be supported with software updates and security patches until 2025. Most probably, Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” will be derived from the recently […]

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Qt 6.2 LTS Release Adds New Modules and Support

Qt 6.2 LTS is now available, not only as the first release with long-term support of the sixth major version of the framework, but also as the foundation for developers to transition from Qt 5. Learn more about the new release here.
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Exim 4.95 MTA Comes with a Bunch of Improvements

Exim is one of the most used email server software, developed at the University of Cambridge. The latest version of this popular mail transfer agent, Exim 4.95, ships with TLS resumption support included in default builds.
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Mixxx 2.3.1 Free DJ Software Adds Support for New Controllers, Improves HiDPI Support

Fans of the open-source DJ software will be happy to learn that the Mixxx 2.3.1 release introduces support for 125% and 175% HiDPI scale factors to make the application look better on HiDPI/4K displays. However, it should be noted that this feature is only supported on systems where Qt 5.14 or later is installed. This […]

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Inkscape 1.1.1 Open-Source and Free SVG Editor Released as a Bug and Crash Fix Update

Inkscape 1.1.1 is the first point release to the Inkscape 1.1 series and comes to address lots of bugs and crashes. But it also adds a new feature to make it easier for users to donate to the project, namely a link to Inkscape’s donation page in the Help menu. As for the bugs fixed, […]

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SuperTuxKart 1.3 Released with New Arenas, New Karts, and GUI Improvements

Coming more than a year after SuperTuxKart 1.2, SuperTuxKart 1.3 is here to introduce two new battle arenas, namely Ancient Colosseum Labyrinth and Alien Signal. While the first is a brand new dark environment inspired by the Rome Colosseum, the latter was already offered to donators and is based on a real location for the […]

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Ubuntu 21.10 Beta Released, Download and Test Now

The Ubuntu team announced that Ubuntu 21.10 Beta “Impish Indri” is now available for download and test. We give you a quick look at the new features and download instructions here.
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GNOME 41 Comes with Some Small but Very Useful Features

GNOME 41 is now out, and while it doesn’t change as many things as GNOME 40 did, there is still a lot of stuff to talk about. If you like GNOME and use it, there is basically no reason to not upgrade to GNOME 41. It is smoother, faster, apps are better, and there are […]

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NVIDIA 470.74 Graphics Driver New Release

Good news for NVIDIA users who want to upgrade their distributions to Linux 5.14, as NVIDIA 470.74 is here with a fix for the bug that caused the nvidia-drm.ko kernel module to crash when loading with DRM-KMS enabled (modeset=1) on the Linux 5.14 kernel series. In addition, it improves support for the Mozilla Firefox web […]

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Linux Apps: PeaZip 8.2.0 Released

PeaZip is an open source, cross-platform archive management software that offers encryption and compression functions and can open and extract over 200 archive types. It can schedule archives, create self-extracting archives, and can even be used as a portable program without installation. The software is available under the open source LGPLv3 license and is free […]

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Sailfish OS 4.2.0 “Verla” Improves the Sharing of Content

The newly written function for sharing content with Sailfish OS 4.2.0 is the most obvious change in the new version, whose nickname, Site Verla, stands for a UNESCO World Heritage site and refers to the history of the paper industry in Finland. Learn m…

Testing and Download the KDE Plasma 5.23 Beta Desktop Environment

A beta version of the custom Plasma 5.23 shell is available for testing. You can test the new release through the Live build from the openSUSE project and the build from the project KDE Neon Testing edition.
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SparkyLinux 2021.09 Released Based on Debian 12 “Bookworm”

The SparkyLinux project has developed a lightweight distribution based on Debian, called SparkyLinux 2021.09. The Sparky team has published a new update to the distribution’s semi-rolling branch, which presents users with software from Debian’s develop…

Ventoy Now Available With GUI

Ventoy is an open source tool for creating bootable USB drives. It was originally released as a command line program. A web UI was introduced later in March this year, but it wasn’t really functional or easy to use. These days the developers have announced the first version of Ventoy with a native Linux GUI. […]

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Ubuntu 18.04.6 Update Available Download with Security fixes

The Ubuntu team has announced an updated version of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04.6, is now available. The new media includes a security fix for the BootHole security issues. Learn more about the new release here.
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Kentik Labs Launches Open Source Networking Tools With eBPF

The networking startup, Kentik Labs, has launched with open source networking tools that leverage eBPF. They say the new platform is aimed at “the other side of the house” from its usual network engineering customers. Learn more about Kenti…

Fedora 35: Release Date, New Features, and Download Testing Version

In this short post, we are going to summarize the new features and updates expected in Fedora 35, with an expected stable release for the end of next October.
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LibreOffice 7.2 Gets First Point Release

Released less than a month ago, the LibreOffice 7.2 office suite has already been adopted by hundreds of thousands of computer users. LibreOffice 7.2.1 has arrived as the first maintenance update, fixing as many as 87 bugs across all core components. Details about these bug fixes are provided in the changelogs from the RC1 and […]

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GNOME Subtitles Editor Gets a Major Update

If you have never heard of GNOME Subtitles before, let me tell you that it’s a powerful subtitle editor for the Linux desktop, supporting most common text-based subtitle formats and offering features like subtitle translation, synchronization of times and frames, as well as built-in video previewing. The new release, GNOME Subtitles 1.7, is here to […]

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Java 17 LTS Released

Java 17 with Extended Support (LTS) has been released. The previous version with extended support, Java 11, was released in 2018. Learn more here.
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