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Ubuntu Core Desktop Delayed, Won’t Be Released in April

Ubuntu Core Desktop will not be released alongside Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in April, as originally hoped. For those thinking “wait, what?!” — last year Canonical announced it was building an all-snap, immutable version of Ubuntu for home users cal…

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Desktop YouTube Music App Musictube Gets ‘Major Overhaul’

A new version of Musictube, a Qt-based desktop app that lets you stream music from YouTube, is available for download for Windows, macOS and Linux. Musictube 2 is described as a “major overhaul” offering an improved search algorithm that no…

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Wayland Driver for Wine to Get OpenGL Support and Many New Features in 2024

Collabora shares a brief review and a look ahead to the ongoing work on the Wayland driver for Wine, as well as a look at some of the features that would be great to have eventually.
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Wayland Driver for Wine to Get OpenGL Support and Many New Features in 2024

Collabora shares a brief review and a look ahead to the ongoing work on the Wayland driver for Wine, as well as a look at some of the features that would be great to have eventually.
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You Can Now Upgrade from Zorin OS 16 to Zorin OS 17, Here’s How

The Zorin OS team announced that the upgrade path from Zorin OS 16 to Zorin OS 17 is now open for Zorin OS Core and Pro users through the Zorin OS Upgrader utility.
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System76 Refreshes Its Serval WS Linux Laptop With 14th Gen Intel CPU

Linux hardware vendor System76 announced a refresh to its powerful Serval WS Linux-powered laptop that’s now equipped with a high-end 14th-generation Intel Core processor.
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ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.0 Delivers PDF Forms, RTL, Goal Seek + More

The much-awaited ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.0 has landed, bringing many powerful features and enhancements. Let’s dive into the exciting updates that this version has to offer.
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Ubuntu 24.04 Aims to use Thunderbird Snap as Default

Like Firefox, Thunderbird email client in Ubuntu is going to be replaced as a Snap app runs in sandbox. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is working on porting core apps to Snap package format in recent years. Firefox, Chromium (in system repository), and Ubuntu Software (App Center) are now Snap apps in current Ubuntu releases. […]

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Arduino IDE 2.3 Released, Debug Feature Goes Stable

The Arduino team announced the 2.3 release of the Arduino IDE this Wednesday. Since v2.3, the debug feature is now stable and fully incorporated into the IDE! It’s now based on a standard framework, and enabled for all the Arduino boards based on the Mbed™ core, include GIGA R1 WiFi, Portenta H7, Opta, Nano BLE […]

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LibreOffice 24.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 24.2 as the latest stable version of this popular, powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite for GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows systems.
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Mesa 24.0 Linux Graphics Stack Released with NVK and RADV Driver Improvements

The Mesa 24.0 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update that introduces new features and many improvements for several of the included graphics drivers.
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Ubuntu 24.04 Plans Switch to Thunderbird Snap from DEB

If you’re an Ubuntu user who uses the Thunderbird e-mail client there are some interesting changes on the way you will want to know about. First up, Canonical’s Thunderbird snap package is now being built using source code rather than repac…

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GNOME Finally Decides to Step Up & Revamp its Documentation For Contributors

The GNOME Project Handbook (handbook.gnome.org) is meant to act as a one-stop documentation resource for GNOME contributors, not for providing user documentation, homepages for apps/libraries, or technical documentation.
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GNOME 46 Plans OneDrive File Access in Nautilus

Support for accessing Microsoft OneDrive files through Nautilus is planned for GNOME 46, which is due for release next month. GVfs (GNOME virtual filesystem) provides a number of backends that allow SFTP, SMB, HTTP, MTP, WebDAV and other mounts/shares …

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Cygwin 3.5.0 Drops Older Windows Platform Support

New Cygwin 3.5.0 drops Windows 7/8 support, introduces advanced file system features, improved package info, and more. Learn what’s new!
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Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Beta Unveils Revolutionary Hybrid Debian Base and OCI Image Updates

After many months of development, the Vanilla OS 2 “Orchid” beta is now available for testing.
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How to Install GO (golang 1.22) in Ubuntu 22.04

Go programming language announced the new 1.22 release this Tuesday! Here’s the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu & other Linux. What’s New in Go 1.22: The variables declared by a “for” loop were created once and updated by each iteration. In new 1.22 release, each iteration of the loop creates new […]

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Bluesky is now open to all, invite codes no longer required

Bluesky, the much-hyped open-source alternative to X/Twitter, is now open for all — invites code no longer needed! Launched in the spring of last year, Bluesky is a decentralised social network modelled after early Twitter. You sign up, post, follow pe…

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Kubuntu 24.04 LTS Won’t Use KDE Plasma 6.0

Kubuntu 24.04 LTS will not use KDE Plasma 6.0 by default. Kubuntu Council member Rick Timmis shared an overview of a recent meeting at which it was “unanimously agreed” to, among other things, prepare an alpha of KDE Plasma 6 targeting the …

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Microsoft Relents: VS Code Will Work with Ubuntu 18.04 Until 2025

Microsoft has announced a temporary reprieve for developers using VS Code to connect to servers, clouds, container, and other devices running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. As I covered last week, Microsoft pushed out an update to VS Code that bumps its glibc requi…

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