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Mozilla Thunderbird 91 Released as a Massive Update with Numerous New Features and Improvements

Thunderbird 91 comes a little over a year after the Thunderbird 78 series, and brings a revamped account setup wizard with support for setting up signatures, encryption and CalDAV calendars, a new user interface for adding attachments, the ability to change the order of accounts in the UI, and the ability to redirect emails. This […]

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Thunderbird 91 Arrives with Improved Set-Up Wizard, Better Calendar Support

Thunderbird 91 is out with substantial improvements to the way this open source email client feels and functions. Want to take a closer look? Read on!
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Firefox 91 Available to Download, This is What’s New

Another month another Firefox update to enjoy. In this post we recap the what’s new in Firefox 90, and tell you how you can get the update on your system.
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elementary OS 6 “Odin” Officially Released, This Is What’s New

One of the biggest new features of elementary OS 6 “Odin” is the highly and long-anticipated Dark Style or Dark Mode, finally allowing you to turn down the lights on your elementary OS desktop. And, the devs made it super easy to enable, right from the Welcome screen (on new installations) or from System Settings […]

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Mozilla Firefox 91 Arrives as the New ESR Series, Brings Back Simplified Printing

It’s been a little less than a month since Firefox 90 landed with FTP support completely removed, and now Firefox 91 is already here with various improvements and bug fixes, including the simplified printing feature for a clutter-free print preview page (available under More settings > Format > Simplified in the Print Preview dialog). However, […]

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Mozilla Firefox 91 Arrives as the New ESR Series, Brings Back Simplified Printing

It’s been a little less than a month since Firefox 90 landed with FTP support completely removed, and now Firefox 91 is already here with various improvements and bug fixes, including the simplified printing feature for a clutter-free print preview page (available under More settings > Format > Simplified in the Print Preview dialog). However, […]

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elementary OS 6 Released, This is What’s New

It’s here, folk — the elementary OS 6 ‘Odin’ release is now available to download. elementary devs describe this as ‘the biggest update’ yet! In this post we show you what’s new in elementary OS 6 “Odin”,…

Coreboot 6 Open-Source Firmware Is Now Available for Star Labs’ Linux Laptops

The Coreboot 6 open-source firmware is now available for the Star LabTop Mk III, Star LabTop Mk IV, and StarBook Mk V notebooks, along with an updated Coreboot Configurator utility, bringing lots of new features and improvements. Highlights include a new Boot Graphics Resource Table (BGRT) logo, updated Firmware Support Package (FSP), updated microcode, new […]

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Why Service Mesh Architectures are Kubernetes’ New Traffic Cop

From Linkerd to Istio, service mesh architectures are increasingly being harnessed by enterprises to make managing container clusters easier.
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Open Source Security: A Big Problem

Open source security has been a big focus of this week’s Black Hat conference, but no open source security initiative is bolder than the one proffered by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Amid discussions on the security of open source technologies like eBPF and Hadoop, OpenSSF speakers Jennifer Fernick, SVP and head of global […]

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NSA, CISA Report Outlines Risks, Mitigations for Kubernetes

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. In a 52-page report released this week, the National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) noted the advantages to enterprises […]

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Mesa 21.2 Released with New Features, Improved Support for Many Games

Mesa 21.2 has been in development for the past three months and brings a plethora of new features to the RADV (Radeon Vulkan) driver, in the form of several Vulkan extensions to improve support for Vulkan apps/games, as well as OpenGL ES 3.1 support on GT21x hardware and the Panfrost driver, wideLines support on lavapipe, […]

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Hurrah, Chrome for Linux FINALLY Supports CSD Properly

Latest versions of Google Chrome for Linux fix several of the browser’s CSD issues. In this post we compare the builds side-by-side to spot the changes.
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Pantavisor Linux Brings Container Portability and Agility to Embedded Systems on IoT

Pantacor team announced the release of Pantabox and community website Pantavisor.io. Inspired by other open-source projects like Busybox, Pantabox is a self-contained frontend for managing Pantavisor Linux directly on IoT devices. In addition to this, …

Ubuntu’s New Desktop Installer Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s How to Test It

In early March, I took a first look at Ubuntu’s new Desktop Installer. Canonical provided web-based designs of the new installer ahead of its initial release, as part of the Ubuntu installation images, but now the installer written in Flutter is finally available for public testing in the latest daily build images of Ubuntu 21.10. […]

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Nitrux 1.5.1 is Here and Comes with A Whole Host of Updates and Fixes

Nitrux has just released a new update to their 1.5 series of distributions, bringing us up to version 1.5.1. Here is what’s new.
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Valve and AMD Join Forces, Developing an Improved Linux CPU Driver

Valve and AMD are working together to develop a better CPU performance scaling driver for Linux, targeting the Steam Deck gaming console. The new driver will allow the processor in the Steam Deck to quickly ramp up to a higher performance state when ne…

Xfce Apps Update for July 2021 Brings New Releases of Catfish, Mousepad, Sensors Plugin, and More

July 2021 looks to have been another slow month for Xfce’s apps updates, but we did receive some important ones, starting with the Catfish file searching tool, which received not one but two releases that enabled the sidebar by default, added local source (pip) installation support, enabled support for searching compressed files, added full-text search […]

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Supply Chain Flaws Found in Python Package Repository

Administrators overseeing the Python Package Index (PyPI) in recent days found themselves responding to vulnerabilities found in the repository of open source software, the latest security problems to hit the Python community. Most recently, the PyPI group sent out fixes for three vulnerabilities that were discovered by security researcher RyotaK and published on his blog. Two […]

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First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 5.13 is Now Available for Download

Arch Linux 2021.08.01 has been released, and it’s the first monthly ISO snapshot of the popular GNU/Linux distribution to ship with the latest and greatest Linux 5.13 kernel series, which is now used by default. Linux 5.13.6 is included in this snapshot, but the Linux 5.13.7 point release already hit the testing repos at the […]

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