The newly written function for sharing content with Sailfish OS 4.2.0 is the most obvious change in the new version, whose nickname, Site Verla, stands for a UNESCO World Heritage site and refers to the history of the paper industry in Finland. Learn m…
Companies have long been hungry for open source savvy employees, but now, they’re starving. Learn more from a recent Linux Foundation survey about a growing need for open source talent in the workforce.
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Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 just got a major support boost from Canonical. Announced today, Canonical says both releases will now get an extended 10 years of support from their original release date, up from the 5 originally provided. This commitment…
A beta version of the custom Plasma 5.23 shell is available for testing. You can test the new release through the Live build from the openSUSE project and the build from the project KDE Neon Testing edition.
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Telegram Desktop 3.1 is here with some pretty cool new features: the ability to record live streams and video chats in a group or channel with options to record video and audio or only audio saved in your admin’s Saved Messages panel, as well as support for read receipts in small groups, with the option […]
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The SparkyLinux project has developed a lightweight distribution based on Debian, called SparkyLinux 2021.09. The Sparky team has published a new update to the distribution’s semi-rolling branch, which presents users with software from Debian’s develop…
The Thumb 3.12 release is here and it’s full of improvements, including native support for the HEIF and AVIF image formats, as well as Apple’s HEIC.
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Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS is available to download. This point release carries a number of fixes to plug the BootHole security vulnerability discovered in 2020.
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Ventoy is an open source tool for creating bootable USB drives. It was originally released as a command line program. A web UI was introduced later in March this year, but it wasn’t really functional or easy to use. These days the developers have announced the first version of Ventoy with a native Linux GUI. […]
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The Ubuntu team has announced an updated version of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04.6, is now available. The new media includes a security fix for the BootHole security issues. Learn more about the new release here.
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Cybercriminals are targeting Linux-based servers running Microsoft’s Azure public cloud environment that are vulnerable to flaws, after Microsoft didn’t automatically apply a patch on affected clients in its infrastructure. According to cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, the attacks began the night of Sept. 16 after a proof-of-concept exploit was published earlier in the day on GitHub. […]
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The networking startup, Kentik Labs, has launched with open source networking tools that leverage eBPF. They say the new platform is aimed at “the other side of the house” from its usual network engineering customers. Learn more about Kenti…
A significant part of hacking consists of diverting the function of existing systems and software, and hackers often use legitimate security tools to perform cyber attacks. Pentesting tool Cobalt Strike has been one such target, but what happened recently with a Red Hat Linux version of the Cobalt Strike Beacon is worthy of note. According […]
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In this short post, we are going to summarize the new features and updates expected in Fedora 35, with an expected stable release for the end of next October.
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It’s a bug that has irritated me for the past 12 months but, at last, Spotify devs have fixed it in the latest update to the official Spotify Linux client.
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Released less than a month ago, the LibreOffice 7.2 office suite has already been adopted by hundreds of thousands of computer users. LibreOffice 7.2.1 has arrived as the first maintenance update, fixing as many as 87 bugs across all core components. Details about these bug fixes are provided in the changelogs from the RC1 and […]
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If you have never heard of GNOME Subtitles before, let me tell you that it’s a powerful subtitle editor for the Linux desktop, supporting most common text-based subtitle formats and offering features like subtitle translation, synchronization of times and frames, as well as built-in video previewing. The new release, GNOME Subtitles 1.7, is here to […]
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A brand-new Linux Mint website has gone live. Mint devs said that a revamped homepage was in the work, even inviting the community to get involved in shaping the form and function of it. All of that hardwork has paid off as the new Linux Mint website i…
Firefox Suggest displays suggestions when users type in the Firefox address bar. The feature looks like search suggestions at first glance, a feature Firefox supported for a long time. However, suggestions from Firefox Suggest are not offered by the se…
Ubuntu plans to make the Firefox Snap the default version for new installations of Ubuntu 21.10. A feature freeze exception (FFE) has been opened by Canonical’s Olivier Tilloy that seeks to replace the Firefox .deb package in the Ubuntu ‘se…