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8BitDo’s New Mechanical Keyboard is their Geekiest Yet

8BitDo, makers of retro-themed gaming goods, have unveiled their latest nostalgia-indulging mechanical PC keyboard — and fair warning: it’s way nerdier than their NES-inspired one. The new edition is sure to press all the right buttons for geeks …

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Revolt of the Redis Maintainers: New Redis Clone, Valkey, Has Linux Foundation Support

Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project’s long-time contributors.
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Maintainer Confidential: Challenges and Opportunities One Year On

A year ago I wrote an article to give some insight into how an open source project looks behind the scenes from a maintainer’s perspective. One year on, I thought it might be interesting to share an update on that. Who I am and what the project is and does was covered previously and hasn’t […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 Switches Webcam App from Cheese to Snapshot

Ubuntu 24.04 is switching its default webcam app from Cheese to Snapshot, a modern GTK4/libadwaita camera tool that’s part of the GNOME Core Apps set. Cheese has been part of Ubuntu’s default software lineup since 2010, having first been ad…

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LibreOffice 24.2.2 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 70 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 24.2.2 is now available for download as the second point release to the LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series fixing more than 100 bugs for improved stability and robustness.
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Tails 6.1 Released: Enhancements in Security and User Experience

New in Tails 6.1: Tor Browser 13.0.13 and Thunderbird 115.9.0, as well as major fixes, including Persistent Storage enhancements.
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The Journey of Linux’s ext2 Filesystem Comes to an End

The 30-year-old ext2 filesystem is marked as deprecated in the upcoming Linux kernel 6.9 for lacking dates support beyond 2038.
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Fedora Linux 40 Beta is Released

Fedora Linux announced the Beta release of the next version 40 one day ago on Tuesday! Fedora is a popular free open-source Linux Distribution owned by Red Hat, which acts as an upstream release for CentOS Stream and RHEL. It features Iot, Cloud, Server, CoreOS, and Workstation defaults to GNOME (and other Desktops as spins). […]

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KDE Plasma 6.0.3 March’s Bugfix Release Is Here

KDE Plasma 6.0.3 streamlines the desktop experience with critical bug fixes in the system monitor, SDK, and startup sound settings.
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Blender 4.1: Where Quality Meets Efficiency in 3D Design

Blender 4.1 3D creation suite releases with game-changing performance boosts and quality-of-life improvements. Here’s more on that!
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Blender 4.1 Released! New Nodes, Faster Performance and Python 3.11

Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, announced new 4.1 major release this Tuesday. Blender 4.1 introduced new geometry nodes, including Index Switch, Musgrave, Split to Instance, Sort Elements, Rotate Rotation, Active Camera. It replaces mesh “Auto Smooth” option with a modifier node group asset, adds support for Blackbody shader node, new Manage panel […]

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Tails 6.1 Is Out to Mitigate the RFDS Intel CPU Vulnerabilities, Fix More Bugs

Tails 6.1 anonymous Linux distribution is now available for download with patches for the latest RFDS Intel CPU vulnerabilities.
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Ubuntu in the Wild: Distro Glimpsed in Nature Film ‘Nocturnes’

It’s been a little while since the last #UbuntuintheWild spot but this one feels like a fitting return given it’s quite literally in the wild! The wilds of the Eastern Himalayan forests, in fact. Nature documentary Nocturnes, directed and p…

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Free Planetarium App Stellarium 24.1 Adds Low Graphics Mode

Stellarium, the free planetarium app, release version 24.1 a day ago. Stellarium is a free open-source desktop app for Linux, Windows, and MacOS. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. The software released version 24.1 this Tuesday that features low-graphics mode support, […]

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Cloudflare’s Pingora Framework Gets Open Source

With nearly a quadrillion requests handled, Cloudflare’s Pingora steps into the open-source world to benefit the Internet. Here’s more on that!
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Fedora 41 With Proposal to Adopt DNF5

DNF5 can replace the current package manager in Fedora 41, as the proposal has been made and is pending approval.
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Fedora 41 With Proposal to Adopt DNF5

DNF5 can replace the current package manager in Fedora 41, as the proposal has been made and is pending approval.
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Blender 4.1 Officially Released with Quality-of-Life and Performance Improvements

Blender 4.1 open-source 3D computer graphics software is now available for download with quality of life improvements and performance enhancements all across the board.
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KDE Plasma 6.0.3 Is Here to Fix Some X11 Regressions and Various Crashes

KDE Plasma 6.0.3 is now available as the third update to the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series addressing various bugs, regressions, crashes, and other issues.
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Kubuntu 24.04 Wallpaper Submission Opened

Your artwork on every Kubuntu 24.04 desktop? Submit your inspiring wallpaper design by March 31, 2024, and make it possible!
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