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Vim 9.1 Adds Virtual Text, Smooth Scrolling, and More

Latest Vim 9.1: Remembering Bram Moolenaar, featuring new :defer command, virtual-text support, and EditorConfig plugin. See what’s new.
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Lossless Cut – Swiss Army Knife of Video Cutter added Full-Screen Support

Lossless Cut, the popular free open-source video cutting/trimming tool, updated recently with full-screen support. There are a few tools to cut out a fragment of a video in Linux, besides using heavy video editor application (e.g., Kdenlive and OpenShot). They include Video Trimmer, VidCutter. However, Lossless Cut is my top favorite one! It lets you […]

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HandBrake 1.7.2 Improves Automatic Selection of Dolby Vision Level and Linux Performance

HandBrake 1.7.2 is here about five weeks after HandBrake 1.7 as a modest update that improves the automatic selection of Dolby Vision Level and the performance of the software on Linux systems by removing duplicate graphic assets and reducing file size…

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Latest Tails 5.21 Update Addresses Persistent Storage Issues

Tails 5.21 release includes a fix for system partition resizing errors and updated Tor Browser 13.0.7. Here’s more on that!
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Enlightenment 0.26 and EFL 1.27: From Eye-Candy to High Performance

Discover the revamped features and enhanced flexibility with Enlightenment 0.26 and EFL 1.27.
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GNOME Makes New System Monitor Extension for GNOME Shell

Keeping an eye on CPU, memory, and network activity in GNOME Shell is made easy, thanks to an array of community-built extensions tailored-made for the task. Now, there’s a new option available for users to use — and it’s designed, develope…

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7 Small (Lesser Known) Distros that Emerged Winner in 2023

Every year, we have some exciting new distributions that try to do things differently or offer something meaningful rather than being “just another distro.” So what were some successful distro reveals this year? Let me highlight the best ones.
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6 Predictions for Linux and Open-Source in 2024

Year 2024 is here, and it is time to look forward to the trends that will shape the year. And here are our predictions on how things will move for Linux and open source.
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Gentoo Linux Takes a Big Leap: Official Binary Packages

Breaking free from the source-only tradition, Gentoo Linux introduces binary packages for a faster and more convenient user experience.
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IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Kicks Off 2024 by Blocking Email Spammers by Default

Featuring an updated GRUB bootloader to version 2.12 RC1 and an updated CA certificate bundle, the IPFire 2.27 Core Update 182 release is here to introduce a new change in the default firewall policy to block outgoing SMTP traffic from internal network…

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Darktable 4.6 Release Improves Performance, Adds Nifty New Features

darktable is a popular photography and raw-developing app that markets itself as a “virtual light table and darkroom for photographers.” It lets you organize all your files, with useful tools to enhance or develop them in a non-destructive manner. In a recent announcement, the developers have introduced the darktable 4.6 release. Let’s see what it […]

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Fedora 40 Plans to Merge /usr/bin and /usr/sbin Directories

Learn about the Fedora 40 change proposal, which plans to merge the /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories together.
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2023’s Moments That Marked the Open-Source World

2023 in review: The most remarkable events in the open-source ecosystem that shaped the year. Let’s recall them!
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AI Audio Effects, Including Voice Transcription, Come to Audacity

Intel has released an array of AI effects for the open-source audio editor Audacity. Intel’s OpenVINO AI plugins for Audacity (to give them their official name) have been designed to work offline and locally, meaning no cloud servers, signups, or…

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Firefox 122 Enters Public Beta Testing With Improved Built-In Translation Feature

Firefox 122 looks like a small update to the popular open-source web browser used by default on numerous GNU/Linux distributions. It only promises to improve the quality of the new built-in translation feature introduced in Firefox 118, offering more stable translations that no longer break interactive widgets on some websites and reduce the risk of […]

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Scribus 1.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released as a Major Update

Scribus 1.6 is here to replace the 1.4.8 stable version and the 1.5.x development series, implementing features like a revamped user interface with support for light and dark modes and new icons, HiDPI-aware canvas rendering, a new PDF-based output pre…

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MX-23.1 Raspberry PI OS Respin Released, Here’s What’s New

Get the latest MX-23.1 Raspberry Pi Respin, based on Debian 12.4 with customized MX tools, streamlined for Pi hardware.
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MX-23.1 Raspberry PI OS Respin Released, Here’s What’s New

Get the latest MX-23.1 Raspberry Pi Respin, based on Debian 12.4 with customized MX tools, streamlined for Pi hardware.
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Fedora-Based Nobara Linux 39 Released, Ditches GNOME in Favor of Plasma

Nobara 39 brings Nvidia driver updates for Wayland compatibility, Gamscope-session improvements, cleaner SteamOS session handling, and more.
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Alacritty 0.13 Released With Enhanced Configurability

From Wayland woes to clipboard quirks, Alacritty 0.13 tackles a slew of bugs, optimizing memory usage and refining the user experience.
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