The new Blender 4.5 LTS release features major improvements, including full Vulkan support, faster startup, new Geometry Nodes, HDR and more.
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Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D graphics and modeling software is now available for download with various new featuers and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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KDE Plasma 6.4.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvments.
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KDE’s Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.
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Consider this post a little apropos of nothing given that nothing has actually been formally announced yet, but it seems the long-rumoured merge of Google’s Chrome OS and Android operating systems is indeed happening. That’s according to Sa…
Seeking a fast, modern terminal for Ubuntu? Rio is a cross-platform, hardware-accelerated terminal emulator built in Rust with novel features.
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The CachyOS ISO snapshot for July 2025 is now available for download with a long-awaited requested feature and other improvements.. Here’s what’s new!
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GParted Live 1.7.0-8 open-source partition editor is now available for download with a mechanism to reduce the random order of block devices.
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With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.
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GStreamer 1.28 open-source multimedia framework has entered development promising many new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect.
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VS Code 1.102, the June release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released few days ago on Wednesday. Since the release, Copilot Chat is finally open-sourced under the MIT license. And, the source code, is available at this github page. As you see in the screenshot, the chat view has a new “Configure Chat” gear menu, allowing […]
A sizeable database performance boost is available in the latest release of open source ebook manager, view and converter Calibre, plus plenty of bug fixes.
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You can customise GNOME Shell notifications, including position on screen, RegEx filtering, and custom colours using the Notification Configurator extension.
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KDE Frameworks 6.16 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new!
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Calibre 8.6 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware.
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Linux users can now install the official Mozilla VPN client from Flathub, making access to its paid-for, privacy-minded service more readily accessible to Linux users. The Mozilla VPN Flatpak is current in the process of verification (reminder: Linux M…
System76 Linux-powered Adder WS laptop gets an Intel Core Ultra i9 275HX CPU and NVIDIA 50 Series graphics in the latest update.
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Ubuntu 24.10, codename “Oracular Oriole”, has reached end of its life. Users are recommended to either upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 or install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Ubuntu 24.10 is the last Ubuntu version released in October 2024. It’s a short-term release with 9-month support cycle. The developer team has announced the 24.10 end of life few […]
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” reached end of life on July 10th, 2025, and it will no longer be supported. All users should upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 LTS “Plucky Puffin” as soon as possible.
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