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elementary OS 8 Enters Early Access, Here’s What’s Planned

Sponsors 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…

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Ubuntu Studio opens Wallpaper Competition for Next 24.04

Ubuntu 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 […]

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Darktable 4.6.1 Released, New Documentation & Various Fixes

Darktable 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 […]

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RawTherapee 5.10 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu via PPA

RawTherapee, 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 […]

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Shotwell 0.32.6 Updated App Icon with Better HiDPI Support

Shotwell 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, […]

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GNOME Network Displays Adds Support for MICE, Chromecast

The 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…

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Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Installer Refresh [First Look]

As 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…

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System76 Says Cosmic Desktop’s Alpha Release Is Almost Here

We 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.
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HandBrake 1.7.3 Released with Bug-Fixes (Ubuntu PPA)

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 […]

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Implementing OpenTelemetry Natively in an Event Broker

Introduction 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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Power Profiles Daemon 0.20 Adds Multi Drivers, AMDGPU Power Saving Support

power-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 […]

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ONLYOFFICE 8 Released with PDF Encryption, RTL Support

Lots 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 …

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Security Experts Warn of “Snap Trap” Exploit in Ubuntu

Researchers 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…

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Mozilla Announces Layoffs, Renews Focus on Firefox

Mozilla, 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…

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First Look at Ubuntu’s New ‘Desktop Security Center’

Ubuntu 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…

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Firefox Devs Working on Tab Hover Previews

Tab 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…

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PeaZip 9.7 Archive Tool Now Supports ARM64 Linux

A 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 …

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Wine Dev 9.2 Released with Mono Engine Updated to 9.0.0

Wine, 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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Ubuntu 24.04 Wallpaper Contest is Open! Top 8 will be Included

Wallpaper Contest for the next Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Noble Numbat, is open! Top 8 winner images will be shipped in the iso image. A bit different to the previous contests, this time the submissions are separated into 4 categories: Mascot Theme, Digital / Abstract Art, Nature, and Other. Each category will have 2 winners, and […]

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Innovation as a Catalyst in Telecommunications

Innovation—a term often tossed around but rarely dissected for its true impact, especially in the ever-evolving world of telecommunications. At its core, innovation is about breaking new ground; it’s about moving beyond traditional methods to create novel solutions for old problems and to anticipate challenges in an ever-changing industry. Innovation in telecommunications isn’t just about […]

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