If you’ve been counting down the hours until you could wear something open source on your wrist, then the time is at hand! You can now buy the PineTime smartwatch pre-flashed with the InfiniTime firmware. Since announcing the PineTime back in 201…
A new version of the ArcMenu GNOME extension is available for download, and it’ll be of particular interest to those who want to make Ubuntu look like Windows 11. The latest update to Arc Menu includes a pair of new menu layouts: ‘Launcher&…
Valve continues to polish the Steam Client, and a new version has been released. On the Linux side, there are several changes and fixes. Here’s what’s new.
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Still based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system series, Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 is here as a maintenance update that plugs various annoyances and bugs to make the entire Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system more stable and reliable. First of all, Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 introduces a new way for Ubuntu Touch to scale […]
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GNOME’s Tobias Bernard has a new blog post out and it’s an essential read if you’re interested in the direction of the GNOME desktop. Now, it’s always great to get some background rationale from the folks inside of the project a…
The biggest change in Tails 4.20 is the brand-new Tor Connection assistant that simplifies the way you connect to the Tor anonymous network from the Tails live system. The new Tor Connection assistant pops up immediately after connecting to a local network. The advantages of the new Tor Connection wizard are many, mostly helping censored […]
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Microsoft has shown much more love for Linux in recent years. Windows Subsystem for Linux is a clear example of this. CBL-Mariner Linux 1.0 is the first stable release of this new distro developed by Microsoft for internal use. Learn how to install it …
A new month means a new version of Firefox to download and enjoy. In this post we look at the various Firefox 90 changes – but spoiler: there aren’t many!
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KDE Frameworks 5.84 introduces a new user interface feature called expandable tooltips. This adds a “Press Shift for more” label to the tooltips in KDE apps that use the KXMLGui and Kirigami frameworks to display the longer text of that tooltip. The development is a replacement for the “What’s This?” feature. This release also improves […]
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The final release of 2021, Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri development is in progress. In this post, we sum up the new features known so far and planned release dates.
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Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) is a complete open-source platform for all-inclusive enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage, and networking functionality on a single platform. Proxmox VE 7 is based on the upcoming Debian 11 “Bullseye” but using a Linux kernel 5.11, and includes QEMU 6.0, LXC 4.0, and OpenZFS […]
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While most GNU/Linux distributions are struggling to upgrade their kernels to Linux 5.13, which already got its first point release and is marked as “stable” on the kernel.org website, the kernel developers are busy again with the next major release, Linux kernel 5.14. The first Release Candidate (RC) is now ready for public testing, as […]
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Coming about three months after digiKam 7.2, the digiKam 7.3 release is here to introduce official support for the famous ExifTool utility for handling file metadata instead of Exiv2. digiKam now features an ExifTool metadata viewer in the metadata sidebar, which can be accessed from everywhere within the app. Another new feature in this release […]
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The biggest change in the Mozilla Firefox 90 release is the deprecation of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support. Firefox follows in the footsteps of Google Chrome/Chromium, and other web browsers, to no longer allow access to ftp:// links. Mozilla started deprecating FTP support since Firefox 88, but users were able to re-enable the feature by […]
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Solus has just released a new update to their Fortitude series of distributions, bringing us up to version 4.3. Let’s take a quick look at what’s new in the Solus 4.3 desktop environment.
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This week has been great for distro releases. We got the final release of Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” and Solus 4.3, as well as a new release of the education-oriented Escuelas Linux. In addition, we got a new release of the Nextcloud Hub, KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop, KDE Frameworks software suite, and Tor Browser. Read […]
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Check out these step-by-step instructions for you to upgrade your Linux Mint 20.1 system to the latest Mint 20.2.
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Linux Mint 20.2 comes with Cinnamon 5 and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. It is a long-term support release based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and it is supported until 2025.
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Linux Mint 20.2 is now available to download. The latest update to the Ubuntu-based Linux distro comes with a number of new features, user-interface improvements, and bug fixes. Linux Mint say the “refinements […] make […]
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Based on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) and powered by the long-term supported Linux 5.4 LTS kernel series, Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” ships with the latest Cinnamon 5.0 desktop environment on the flagship edition, as well as the Xfce 4.16 and MATE 1.24 desktop environments on the Xfce and MATE editions. Highlights of the Linux […]
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