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Linux Mint 21.3 to Ship With Cinnamon 6.0, Experimental Wayland Support

The Linux Mint project announced today in their monthly newsletter that they’ve started working on implementing a Wayland session for a future release of the Linux Mint distribution, to be initially available in Linux Mint 21.3.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ‘Noble Numbat’ Is Slated for Release on April 25th, 2024

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” will be Canonical’s 40th Ubuntu release and 10th LTS (Long-Term Support) release, receiving up to 10 years of software and security updates until April 2034. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is slated for release on April 25, 2024.
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Linux Mint Will Continue Betting on Xorg in Future Releases

Linux Mint’s vision showcases a continued reliance on Xorg. Wayland’s on the horizon, but full readiness is projected for 2026. More on that here!
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PromCon Recap: Unveiling Perses, the GitOps-Friendly Metrics Visualization Tool

“An important aspect of Perses strategy is the foundational open source path. Perses is already a project under the Linux Foundation, which means it does not belong to Amadeus or any of the other contributing companies, but to the vendor-neutral foundation, and under its governance. Furthermore, Perses’s end goal is to join the Cloud Native Computing […]

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Fedora 39 Release Delayed by a Week for the Second Time

Due to two last-minute issues, Fedora 39’s release has been pushed back one more week, with a new target date of November 7. Here’s more on that!
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Release Schedule is Out!

Ubuntu 24.04, is in development now! Here’s when it will be released! Ubuntu 24.04, code-name ‘Noble Numbat’, will be a new LTS release with 5 years support and another 5 years extend (ESM) support. It will probably features GNOME Desktop 46, and of course newer Linux Kernel. The development was started this Thursday, according to […]

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Microsoft is Attending Next Week’s Ubuntu Summit

If you’re rocking up to the Ubuntu Summit in Riga, Lativa next week you’ll find yourself in the company of Microsoft. Yes, the makers of Windows (and one-time arch enemy of Linux) has announced it’s attending the Ubuntu Summit. Why? T…

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Ubuntu 24.04 ‘Noble Numbat’ Opens for Development

Ubuntu 24.04 development has officially begun – and a codename officially confirmed! Last week I invited you to share your Ubuntu 24.04 codename predictions. Several of you suggested a numbat, a small, marsupial anteater native to Australia, as an idea…

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Linux Mint 21.3 to Feature Experimental Wayland Support

Linux Mint 21.3, the next major release of the popular Ubuntu-based Linux distro, will include experimental Wayland support for the Cinnamon desktop. Wayland is (as I’m sure you know) a modern display server protocol designed to solve the shortco…

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DietPi released a new version 8.23

The October 21st, 2023 release of DietPi v8.23 comes with hardware-related enhancements (Raspberry Pi, ROCK5B, ROCK 4, VisionFive 2) and a couple of improvements and bug fixes.
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GNOME 45.1 Improves Flatpak Permission Checks, Adds Support for More CPUs

The GNOME Project announced today the release and general availability for public consumption of GNOME 45.1 as the first point release to the latest GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series.
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KDE Plasma 6 Will Not Support Older Desktop Widgets

KDE Plasma 6 comes with modifications that need widget authors to adapt to. Developers, time to port!
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Latest Steam Client Update Enables New VR Gamepad UI in SteamVR Beta on Linux

After announcing SteamVR 2.0, Valve released today a new Steam Client update for all supported platforms that introduces several new features, improvements, as well as bug fixes to provide gamers with the best possible Linux gaming experience.
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The End of an Era: openSUSE Calls for Fresh Logo Submissions

The openSUSE Project has announced a contest for a new logo as well as for the Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll, and Kalpa variants. Here’s more on that!
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Ubuntu 24.04 Release Date Set for April 25, 2024

The next long-term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 24.04, is scheduled to be released on April 25, 2024. Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, lists this as the final release date (though, as always, it is subject to change). Another impor…

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Ubuntu Mentioned in Official Doctor Who Spin-Off Series

What do trans-dimensional time and space machines, sonic screwdrivers, and the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system have in common? They’re all used in the Doctor Who universe! Ubuntu is no stranger to the worlds of Doctor Who. The lab of enigmati…

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Audacity 3.4.0 Beta is out! Musical View, Time stretching & New Exporter

Audacity audio editor released the Beta version of the next 3.4.0. Here’s how to try it out in Ubuntu. According to the project release page, the new release now features several music related features, such as switching between hh:mm:ss time and Beats & Measures, and time-stretching clips to align them to a song’s tempo. The […]

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KDE Plasma 5.27.9 Improves Plasma Wayland & Flatpak-Based GNOME Apps

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 5.27.9 as the ninth maintenance update to the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment series to fix more issues and bugs.
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TUXEDO Linux Gaming Laptops Powered by AMD Ryzen 7000 Series CPUs Are Back

At the request of many users, German-based Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today the return of its TUXEDO Polaris 15 and TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Linux gaming laptops with AMD Ryzen 7000 Series CPUs.
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Firefox 120 to Finally Let Ubuntu Users Import Chromium Browser Data in Firefox Snap

Firefox 120 promises to be an interesting release for Linux users as it will finally let Ubuntu users using the Firefox Snap import browser data from the Chromium Snap. The importing of browser data from the Chromium Snap was implemented in Firefox 112…

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