Firefox 122 Enters Public Beta Testing With Improved Built-In Translation Feature

Firefox 122 looks like a small update to the popular open-source web browser used by default on numerous GNU/Linux distributions. It only promises to improve the quality of the new built-in translation feature introduced in Firefox 118, offering more stable translations that no longer break interactive widgets on some websites and reduce the risk of […]

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Scribus 1.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released as a Major Update

Scribus 1.6 is here to replace the 1.4.8 stable version and the 1.5.x development series, implementing features like a revamped user interface with support for light and dark modes and new icons, HiDPI-aware canvas rendering, a new PDF-based output pre…

MX-23.1 Raspberry PI OS Respin Released, Here’s What’s New

Get the latest MX-23.1 Raspberry Pi Respin, based on Debian 12.4 with customized MX tools, streamlined for Pi hardware.
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MX-23.1 Raspberry PI OS Respin Released, Here’s What’s New

Get the latest MX-23.1 Raspberry Pi Respin, based on Debian 12.4 with customized MX tools, streamlined for Pi hardware.
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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…

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 […]

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 […]

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…

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’ […]

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 …

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 […]

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 […]

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. …

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]