KDE Frameworks 5.84 Released with Expandable Tooltips, Performance Improvements

KDE Frameworks 5.84 introduces a new user interface feature called expandable tooltips. This adds a “Press Shift for more” label to the tooltips in KDE apps that use the KXMLGui and Kirigami frameworks to display the longer text of that tooltip. The development is a replacement for the “What’s This?” feature. This release also improves […]

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Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri – New Features and Release Date

The final release of 2021, Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri development is in progress. In this post, we sum up the new features known so far and planned release dates.
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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 5.14 Release Candidate

While most GNU/Linux distributions are struggling to upgrade their kernels to Linux 5.13, which already got its first point release and is marked as “stable” on the kernel.org website, the kernel developers are busy again with the next major release, Linux kernel 5.14. The first Release Candidate (RC) is now ready for public testing, as […]

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digiKam 7.3 Open-Source Photo Management App Released with ExifTool Support, More

Coming about three months after digiKam 7.2, the digiKam 7.3 release is here to introduce official support for the famous ExifTool utility for handling file metadata instead of Exiv2. digiKam now features an ExifTool metadata viewer in the metadata sidebar, which can be accessed from everywhere within the app. Another new feature in this release […]

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Mozilla Firefox 90 Is Now Available for Download, Removes Built-In FTP Support

The biggest change in the Mozilla Firefox 90 release is the deprecation of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support. Firefox follows in the footsteps of Google Chrome/Chromium, and other web browsers, to no longer allow access to ftp:// links. Mozilla started deprecating FTP support since Firefox 88, but users were able to re-enable the feature by […]

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Solus 4.3 Delivers New Desktop Environment Updates

Solus has just released a new update to their Fortitude series of distributions, bringing us up to version 4.3. Let’s take a quick look at what’s new in the Solus 4.3 desktop environment.
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Linux Mint 20.2 Released with the Long-Awaited Cinnamon 5 Desktop

Linux Mint 20.2 comes with Cinnamon 5 and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. It is a long-term support release based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and it is supported until 2025.
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Tor Browser 10.5 Adds Wayland Support, Further Improves the UX for Censored Users

Tor Browser 10.5 is a major update, and it’s all about improving the experience for users living in countries where their ISPs censor the internet. It helps censored users seamlessly access the open Internet by simplifying the connection flow, detecting censorship, and providing bridges. Starting with this release, Snowflake, the system that defeats internet censorship, […]

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KaOS 2021.06 Released, Brings the Latest KDE Plasma 5.22

KaOS provides one of the best integrations yet of a refreshed KDE-based computing platform. The latest KaOS 2021.06 release comes with KDE Plasma 5.22, which offers new visual effects and a new system monitor.

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Mageia 7 Reached End-of-Life on June 30th, 2021. Here’s How to Upgrade to Mageia 8

Released on July 1st, 2019, the Mageia 7 release shipped with the Linux 5.1 kernel, KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment, the DNF package manager supporting system upgrades from Mageia 6 to Mageia 7, a revamped welcome screen, and much more. The release was supported for exactly two years, until June 30th, 2021, with software and […]

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