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15 O'Reilly Linux eBooks for Under $30: A Bundle That Goes From Command Line Basics to Kubernetes

Don’t miss! Pay tiny amount for a Git-to-Kubernetes Linux library of DRM-free eBooks, with part of the purchase going to Code for America.

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Shotcut 26.7 Added Option to Choose Which Physical GPU to Work With

Just three weeks after the last release, Shotcut video editor rolled out the new 26.7.16 version today for Windows, Mac and Linux users. The new version of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor is marked as a pre-release that features built-in emojis, new video filter, and various fixes. First, the new version […]

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Ubuntu 26.04 fixes trash dialog bug that defaulted to cancel

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting a fix for Nautilus that restores ‘Delete’ as the focused button in the trash confirmation dialog, undoing an accidental swap that made ‘Cancel’ the focused button instead. That ‘unintentional&#8…

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Turns Out Wayland Isn't the Input Lag Disaster Everyone Says it is

A DIY click-to-photon tester puts X11, Wayland, VRR, and a DXVK fork to the test, with some surprising results.

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Firefox is getting updates twice as fast from September

Mozilla is changing Firefox’s release schedule from September, with new stable versions planned every two weeks instead of once a month. The faster release cadence will, Mozilla says, make its schedule more predictable and give “work that is read…

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Blender 5.2 Released as New LTS with 2 Years of Support

Blender, the popular 3D creation software, released new 5.2 version yesterday. The new version of this free open-source software is a new Long Term Support release that will have 2 years support until July 2028. It features a new Sample Sound Frequencies node and Sound socket allowing to load sound files directly into the node […]

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COSMIC Desktop 1.3.0 Released with Frosted Glass UI Design

COSMIC desktop, the default desktop environment for Pop!_OS, released new 1.3.0 version today. The new version of this free open-source System76 developed desktop environment introduced cool new frosted glass UI design, which can apply translucent glass effect for the backgrounds for most desktop components. Simply open Settings, then navigate to Desktop -> Appearances, then you […]

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Cursor AI's Silence on a Critical Flaw Jeopardizes Millions of Users

The flaw lets any repository auto-execute code on Cursor for Windows, and researchers say the company ignored it.

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Use AppManger to install, update AppImages on Ubuntu

AppImages are designed to be simple. Download one, make it executable and run it. On Ubuntu, though, there’s an extra step: installing FUSE 2 (libfuse2t64), as some AppImages rely on it. Ubuntu ships FUSE 3 by default. AppManager is a new(ish) GT…

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GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features Without Breaking Anything

Here’s how GNOME plans to make testing safer and more accessible for everyone.

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Xournal++ 1.3.6 Released with Ubuntu 26.04 Package Support

Xournal++, the free open-source open source handwriting app and PDF annotator, released new 1.3.6 version today for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The new version of this GTK3 based application added official installer package for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, though Ubuntu has already included the app (an old version) in the system repository. Besides the new LTS […]

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Ubuntu 26.04 fixes Papers bug that sent PDF links to wrong page

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is prepping a bug fix update to Papers, the document viewer that replaced Evince in 25.04, resolving several annoyances – including internal PDF links that jumped to the wrong page. The internal link snafu only occurred in some PDFs, n…

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Slack Who? This Self-Hosted Chat App Just Went Open Source

Built by one developer over the past year, Chatto is a team chat solution that can be self-hosted.

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Android Screen Mirroring App Scrcpy 4.1 Added VP8/VP9 Encoders Support

Scrcpy, the app to mirror and control your Android screen on Windows, Linux, and macOS computers, released new 4.1 version. The new version of this free open-source application added VP8 and VP9 video encoding support, primarily intended as a fallback when H.264, H.265, and AV1 encoding are not available. This is useful for devices, such […]

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Open Book Touch is Crowdfunding: A Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle

It’s $149, runs on an ESP32-S3, and skips DRM entirely and lets you skip the Kindle ecosystem.

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How to change Night Light’s colour temperature during the day on Ubuntu

Night Light Scheduler is a new GNOME Shell extension that lets you control how warm your screen is throughout different parts of the evening (or day). GNOME’s built-in Night Light feature has a customisable schedule, and it lets you set a colour …

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GNOME Has A Modern New Email App Work in Progress

Want an email app between Evolution and Geary? Check out Gnome’s modern new “Stamp” app which is working in progress. Stamp is an open-source mail, contact, and calendar suite application for Linux, which was unveiled at OpenSUSE conference 2026: The project provides a complete mail client with integrated contact and calendar functionality. It features a […]

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ELM11-Feather Is a Feather-Compatible Board That Speaks Lua Natively

It’s an FPGA-based board that lets you program the application, driver, and hardware layers in Lua, C, and VHDL/SystemVerilog, and it starts at $29.

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Ubuntu 26.10 retires dbus-daemon after 22 year run as default

Ubuntu 26.10 is replacing its D-Bus implementation for the first time since 2004, swapping dbus-daemon for dbus-broker – a change end-users are unlikely to notice. Processes on your desktop talk to each other and to the host system using D-Bus, a &#821…

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Linux Mint Now Considers Wayland Stable

Cinnamon will fully support both X11 and Wayland sessions starting with Mint’s next release, due Christmas.

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