The open-source IRC client HexChat has announced its final ever release. HexChat 2.16.2 arrives with a small selection of bug fixes and new features for its long-standing fans to enjoy, but also bad news: after almost 12 years of continued development …
Read MoreGambas released new 3.19.0 few days ago. Here’s the new features and how to to install guide for Ubuntu users! Gambas is a full-featured object-oriented language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. It’s made up of a compiler, interpreter, archiver, scripter, development environment, and many extension components, for easily developing command-line, GTK2/GTK3, Qt, […]
Read MoreSponsors of elementary OS now have early access to the next major version of the Ubuntu-based desktop Linux operating system. elementary OS 8 is the next major update, following on from this year’s elementary OS 7.x series. It is based on the pac…
Read MoreUbuntu Studio, the official Ubuntu flavor, opens wallpaper competition for the next 24.04 LTS release! Ubuntu Studio is one of the official Ubuntu flavors, that features KDE Plasma desktop environment and aims to general multimedia production. The developer team opens the wallpaper competition on February 16. All users (needs login) can submit their own artworks […]
Read MoreDarktable photography workflow application and RAW developer released new stable 4.6.1 yesterday! The release finished the documentation for the new 4.6 release series, include translations to Ukrainian, Polish and Dutch. And, it now performs image discovery asynchronously in the import dialog. Meaning that long parsing due to huge number of sub-directories and files can be […]
Read MoreRawTherapee, the free open-source raw photo processing program, announced the new 5.10 release this Friday! It’s been more than 1 year since the last stable release. The new release can now add multiple custom external editors that can be chosen in the Editor tab. The Preferences dialog now has new Favorites tab to add/remove favorite […]
Read MoreShotwell photo manager released version 0.32.5, then 0.32.6 with quick fixes, few days ago. The release has better HiDPI displays support, with new .svg app icon that looks way better (perfectly sharp). The release also fixed that the viewer application always opens in maximized window size, as well as missing viewer app icon in dock, […]
Read MoreThe latest version of the GNOME Network Displays app lets you stream your desktop to a wireless display using the Chromecast and Miracast over Infrastructure (MICE) protocols. Both features had been in development for a while and were long-standing req…
Read MoreAs part of work on the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 release Canonical’s engineers have been working on improving the Ubuntu installer — with “provisioning” a key aim. Now the Ubuntu desktop installer uses the same backend technology as Ubunt…
Read MoreWe could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us we’ll see a production ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this year’s LinuxFest Northwest.
The post System76 Says Cosmic Desktop’s Alpha Release Is Almos…
HandBrake video transcoder announced a new update for the 1.7.x release a few days ago. This release includes only bug-fixes and minor improvements. They include: Fix formatting leading zeros for timestamps in logs Incorrect input FPS detection tx3g to SSA subtitles conversion issue. “All Files” open file dialog filter not really show all files in […]
Read MoreIntroduction In basic terms, an event-driven architecture (EDA) is a distributed system that involves moving data and events between microservices in an asynchronous manner with an event broker acting as the central nervous system in the overall architecture. It is a software design pattern in which decoupled applications can asynchronously publish and subscribe to events […]
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Read Morepower-profiles-daemon, the power mode settings backend in Gnome, released 0.20 today! The new release added amdgpu panel power savings which uses dedicated hardware in systems with integrated Radeon graphics to decrease panel power consumption when the system is on battery. This activates the DRM connector attribute panel_power_savings which takes a range from 0 to 4 […]
Read MoreLots of new features, er feature in the latest update to ONLYOFFICE, the open-source productivity suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux. ONLYOFFICE 8.0 introduces RTL support, albeit as an opt-in, beta feature. When enabled it enables RTL text in the UI …
Read MoreResearchers at Aqua Nautilus say they’ve identified a security issue in the way Ubuntu’s “command not found” feature works, which attackers can exploit to trick users into installing malicious snaps. In a lengthy blog post detai…
Read MoreMozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, is the latest tech company to announce layoffs. The non-profit says it is scaling back development on a number of projects and, as a result, 60 employees (roughly 5% of its total workforce) will lose their jo…
Read MoreUbuntu is working on a new Desktop Security Center that aims to make it easier for users to access some of the distro’s underlying security features. An early version of the Flutter-based tool was made available to install from the Canonical Snap…
Read MoreTab previews are in the works for Mozilla Firefox. In current versions of the browser, hovering your mouse over a non-focused browser tab shows a small tooltip that displays the web page title — and that’s it. While this is handy, especially if y…
Read MoreA new version of PeaZip, a popular free, open-source archive manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is available to download. PeaZip 9.7 is the first release to offer a native build for AArch64/ARM64 Linux systems, allowing anyone to use PeaZip on the …
Read MoreWine, the popular free open-source software for running Windows apps & games on Linux, macOS, & BSD, announced a new development 9.2 release! The new release updated Mono engine to version 9.0.0, included a number of system tray fixes, and exception handling improvements on ARM platforms. There are as well fixes to a total of […]
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