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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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WattOS R13 Rolls Out Rebased on Debian 12 Bookworm

Revitalize your old PC with WattOS R13, featuring Debian 12 Bookworm, lightweight LXDE, and improved hardware compatibility.
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Emmabuntüs DE5 Released: A Year and a Half in the Making

Educational-targeted Emmabuntüs DE5 rolls out, rebased on Debian 12, featuring Xfce 4.18, LXQt 1.2, and ZuluCrypt, replacing VeraCrypt. Here’s more on that!
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Dev Gets Linux Screenshot App Shutter Working on Wayland

Longing to use the legendary Linux screenshot tool Shutter on Wayland? Well, now you can! Upstream, Shutter is still under semi-active development (2 releases last year). However, its developers are yet to officially add support for using the app under…

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Shutter works on Wayland for Select Area & Window Screenshotsnullnullnull

For Ubuntu 22.04/23.10, Fedora & other Linux with Wayland, Shutter screenshot tool can finally take screenshots for selected area and app windows! Shutter is (or was) an excellent feature rich screenshot tool, with image editing and uploading support. It was one of my top favorite apps, but removed from Ubuntu repositories due to lack of […]

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How to Install Scribus 1.6.0 in Ubuntu 22.04 & 23.10

Scribus, the popular free open-source desktop publishing software, announced the new stable 1.6.0 release series on the first day of 2024! It’s been more than 4 years since the last stable 1.4.8, while 1.5.x release series is available as development branch. The new Scribus 1.6.0 includes many new features! If you have the default 1.5.8 […]

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Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Scribus Gets Huge Update

When it comes to free, open-source desktop publishing (DTP) there’s little as capable, as fully-featured, or as widely used in professional settings as Scribus. Now a brand new stable release of this powerful page-making tool is available, the fi…

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Gnome Files (Nautilus) is adding More Beginner Friendly Options

Gnome Files, aka the default Nautilus file manager in Ubuntu & Fedora workstation, keeps moving with new features! In the passed few month, there are minor but beginner friendly features merged into this popular file manager. They include “Enter Location” menu option, sidebar toggle button in sidebar, and badge icon to folder icon in ‘properties’ […]

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GNOME Makes Nautilus’ Custom Folder Feature Easier to Find

A few months back I wrote a guide on how to set custom folder icons in Nautilus without needing to install 3rd-party apps or change icon set. It’s all done using a native, built-in feature of the Nautilus file manager — it’s not even a new …

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Alacritty Terminal Emulator Released New Major 0.13.0

Alacritty, the popular free open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, release new major 0.13.0 version few days ago. The release introduced new features, including persist config option in hints config section, warnings for unused configuration file options, support for keybindings with dead keys, dynamically loading conpty.dll on Windows, as well as: Back/Forward mouse buttons support in bindings […]

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SMPlayer 23.12 Fixed MPV 0.37, Ubuntu 23.10 & New OpenSubtitles API

  SMPlayer media player released version 23.12 few days ago, with important bug-fixes and new API. The new released fixed the compatibility issues when using MPV 0.37 as backend. They include video playback can not be resumed from pause, as well as the issue getting the audio and video codec on mpv 0.37. SMPlayer 23.12 […]

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Ubuntu 23.04 support ends January 25, 2024

Official support for Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ ends on January 25, 2024 — just under a month away at the time I’m writing this post. As an interim/short-term support release, Ubuntu 23.04 receives 9 months of updates from release. …

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HandBrake 1.7.2 Released with Encoding Fixes & Linux Performance Improvement

  HandBrake, the popular free open-source video transcoder, released a new update for the new 1.7 series yesterday. The new release fixed encoding issue for AMD VCN, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, NVIDIA NVENC, and VP9 encoders, which could cause the creation of an excessive number of keyframes. It fixed unintentional automatic pass through of closed caption side […]

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Enlightenment 0.26.0 Released with New Features & Lots Bug-fixes

Enlightenment window manager announced new 0.26.0 release few days ago. The new release added some new features, including DDC option to backlight control of external monitors, bigger task previews, and watermark to wl mode to indicate E is in experimental wl mode. Enlightenment 0.26.0 also added new APIs, including new eet disk sync API to […]

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Stellarium 23.4 Added Lens Distortion Estimator Plugin, Tibetan Lunar Mansions

  Stellarium, the free open-source planetarium software, announced new 23.4 release few days ago. The new release added experimental support for new plugin: Lens Distortion Estimator, and new sky culture: Tibetan Lunar Mansions. With new release, user can now change the look of GUI through normalStyle.css config file. For Windows, it added new MESA for […]

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Enlightenment Desktop Sees New Stable Release

An early Christmas treat has arrived for those seeking Enlightenment — no, not spiritual concept, but the EFL-based desktop shell for Linux and BSD systems. Enlightenment 0.26.0 is modest uplift to Enlightenment 0.25, which was released in December 202…

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Darktable 4.6.0 Released! Auto-Save, rgb primaries Module [Ubuntu PPA]

  Darkable, the popular photography app and raw developer, released new major 4.6.0 version a day ago! The new release introduced auto-save feature for editing history. By default, it save changes every 10 seconds. User can go to ‘Preferences -> storage‘ to change the time interval, or set it to 0 to disable it. Darktable […]

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Linux Foundation Newsletter: December 2023

Welcome to the Linux Foundation’s December newsletter! In this edition, we cover the many gatherings that took place across the globe, notably at Open Source Summit Japan, AI.dev in San Jose, CA., and for several Linux Foundation project teams, at COP28 in Dubai. This month also saw the publication of our 2023 Annual Report, “Rising […]

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GUADEC 2024 Conference Will Be Held in Denver for the GNOME 46 Desktop

Every year, GUADEC gathers GNOME users and developers from all over the world to share knowledge and discuss the new features and changes of the next major release of the GNOME desktop environment. GUADEC 2024 will take place in Denver, Colorado, from July 19th until July 24th, and it’s for the upcoming GNOME 46 series, […]

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