Last year saw the Cinnamon desktop receive a much-needed modern makeover, but it seems the visual revamp effort isn’t over yet. Work is underway on a design update for the Cinnamon app menu (applet). Compared to the current Cinnamon Menu, the pro…
Linux Mint devs revealed a revamped application launcher for the Cinnamon desktop environment and other changes coming to Linux Mint users. Here’s your first look!
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Skype, one of the best-known video chat/calling apps, is shutting down forever on May 5, Microsoft has announced today. Nothing gold can stay, and neither can VoIP services shorn their cultural zeitgeist it seems. Replacing Skype will be a free version…
NetworkManager 1.52 open-source network connection manager is now available for download with IPvlan interface support, ethtool FEC mode, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Fish shell, the popular free open-source command line shell, release new major 4.0 version yesterday. Shell is a program that interprets and executes the commands you type in the terminal. Linux has different type shells, e.g., Bourne Shell (sh), GNU Bourne-Again Shell (bash), and C Shell (csh). And, current Ubuntu releases default to bash shell. […]
February proved a bumper month for Linux software updates, seeing big release of productivity suites LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE and, plus a crop of smaller app updates which didn’t merit a full-length article on this blog. Rather than skip over t…
NVIDIA announced the new 570.124.04 stable driver yesterday as the latest production branch version for Linux users. Compare to the last 570.86.16 Beta driver, this release added new conceal_vrr_caps parameter to the nvidia-modeset kernel module. Which, allows to enable features on displays (such as ULMB) that are incompatible with variable refresh rate (VRR). The new […]
NVIDIA 570 graphics driver is now available for download with VRR (variable refresh rate) support on multi-monitor setups and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Just a week since the last release, KDE announced the second maintenance update for the Plasma 6.3 Desktop. Plasma 6.3.2 added support for fractional scaling with denominator of 120. According to this page, the appropriate denominator for the scale is 120. However, Display Configuration previously only allowed 5% increments. In the new release, it supports […]
LibreOffice 25.2.1 is now available for download as the first point release to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with 77 bug fixes.
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Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser. “Although we’ve historically relied on our open …
Framework announced the Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12, along with an updated Framework Laptop 13. Here are the details!
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KDE Plasma 6.3.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and other improvements.
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The application picker (aka app grid) in GNOME Shell is pretty perfect as it comes, showing launchers for installed apps plus the ability to rearrange them using drag and drop and create custom folders to group apps together. Some folks prefer a little…
Apache NetBeans announced new 25 release a few days ago. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu. NetBeans 25 was released after 2 release candidates. It updated the user interface with another batch of SVG icons for better HiDPI display support, and switched SVG loading routine in ImageUtilities from the […]
Just few weeks after the last release, HandBrake video transcoding released new 1.9.2 version with few more fixes. In new HandBrake 1.9.2, it now allows muxing NVENC AV1 and VCN AV1 in WebM container. It also fixed a crash that could happen when a source contains chapters with no titles. For Windows, the release also […]
At one time, Linux dock apps were a plentiful species, with innovative ‘panel painters’ like GNOME Do/Docky to unashamed bling-kings AWN, DockBarX and Cairo Dock. Yet it was the modest Plank which stayed the course and outlived them. Thing …
Armbian 25.2 distribution for ARM devices is now available for download with support for new boards, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, as well as various improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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KiCad, the free open-source suite for electronic computer-aided design, announced new 9.0.0 release a few days ago. KiCad 9.0 is a new major release that contains exciting new features, usability improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes. The release added a feature that provides predefined sets of jobs (e.g., plotting, exporting, and running DRC) on schematics […]
Battle for Wesnoth, the free open-source turn-based strategy game, released new version 1.18.4 few days ago. The new release introduced some changes to the single player campaigns mode, updated the UI, translations, and fixed some bugs. In the Eastern Invasion campaign, achievement (S04c) now only triggers when escaping with all knights alive. Flying units (S11/S99) […]