Dubbed “Porcupine” and coming six months after the NixOS 21.05 release, NixOS 21.11 is here with a lot of goodies, starting with the GNOME 41.1 desktop environment for its dedicated GNOME edition. It also offers continuing Wayland support for the KDE Plasma 5.23 edition, as well as version 6 of elementary OS’ Pantheon desktop. This […]
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AlmaLinux has opened some doors to make it easier for its community to stay in touch with the Linux distribution, with AlmaLinux mailing lists for both users and devs. Learn more here.
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Ubuntu runs on all sorts of things, from gateways to games consoles, and now we can add robot dog to the list! Chinese hardware company Xiaomi recently unveiled an experimental four-legged robot called CyberDog. Their mechanical manifestation of man…
Read on for more updates about what’s in store for Linux Mint 20.3 “Una,” with a gift from the team: a new app.
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KDE Plasma 5.23.4 is here three weeks after the KDE Plasma 5.23.3 update, restoring the Touchpad applet that was previously available in the Plasma 5.22 series. The applet is now available as a read-only status notifier that only shows when your laptop’s touchpad has been disabled. This point release also improves the Plasma Wayland session, […]
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Switching between open windows in elementary OS 6 has changed. A recent update replaced the distro’s flashy (in both senses of the word) alt + tab experience with a simpler version. The new approach is more akin to the sort of switchers found in …
SQLite 3.37 just got better with new features such as CLI enhancements and additional interfaces. The biggest new feature in this release is support for STRICT tables.
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Clonezilla Live 2.8 is here as a modest update that bumps the kernel from Linux 5.10 LTS to the newer Linux 5.14 series, which is no longer supported upstream. Linux kernel 5.14.6 is included in Clonezilla Live 2.8 mainly to provide users with better hardware support, but there won’t be any further updates released to […]
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Originally known as Ethereal, Wireshark has developed a reputation as one of the most reliable network protocol analyzers available out there. Recently, Wireshark has released a new version of its free and open-source packet analyzer, Wireshark 3.6.0, …
Deepin 20.3 is a Debian-based distribution that features its own custom desktop environment – the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE). The project’s latest release is Deepin 20.3, which includes an updated kernel and better support for NTFS partitions. Le…
Dubbed as the smallest 17-inch business TUXEDO notebook in a 15-inch form factor, the TUXEDO InfinityBook S 17 Gen6 is here with an above-average screen-to-body ratio and a large 17.3-inch Full-HD IPS anti-reflective / non-glare display, partial aluminum chassis (display lid and bottom panel), as well as an ergonomic and cooling-optimized Lift-Up hinge that acts […]
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Endless OS 4.0 is a major release that introduces numerous new features and enhancements, starting with an improved app grid navigation with clickable arrows that allow users to more easily navigate between app pages, with dots that indicate the total number of pages and the page you’re currently on. This release also introduces fast user […]
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Amazon Linux 2022 is to be based upon Fedora Linux and available via AWS AMIs. Read on as we wrap up the announcement and express our views about this change in terms of the FOSS ecosystem.
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Electronic versions of LibreOffice user guides are available as free downloads, or print-on-demand versions through Lulu. Guides are available for Impress and Calc 7.2. Learn more about what’s available here.
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Deepin Linux 20.3 is here almost two months after Deepin Linux 20.2.4, and it upgrades the stable kernel to Linux 5.15. This new Deepin Linux version offers features like a brand new and fully functional NTFS file system implementation, support for 12th Gen Intel processors, in-kernel SMB server, real-time preemption locking, and many other goodies. […]
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A new beta build of CutefishOS is available to download. We took a look at this promising (and then Ubuntu-based) distro a few months back and came away impressed. It’s not yet “daily driver” ready — this latest update is a beta build…
For fans of digital photography, there is certainly no shortage of image editing tools to choose from, but the problem is that many of them are expensive. For Windows users, Paint.NET has offered a neat balance between power and ease of use. Pinta brings this power of affordable image editing to Linux users. Learn more […]
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The image editing app Pinta has a new bug-fix release out. Pinta 1.7.1 is intended as the final update in the GTK2-based series, with a GTK3 build (dubbed Pinta 1.8) said to be nearly ready for release. Building on the feature set introduced in last ye…
Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) is a complete, open source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. Proxmox has released Proxmox VE 7.1 based on Debian 11.1 (Bullseye), but using a newer Linux kernel 5.13. Learn more about the new rel…