Those of you who own a Framework Laptop 13 —consider me jealous, btw— or are considering buying one, you may be intrigued to hear that a RISC-V motherboard option is in the works. DeepComputing, the company behind the recently-announced Ubuntu RISC-V l…
KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released with a plethora of productivity and performance-minded improvements. Building on the KDE Plasma 6.0 release from earlier in this year, the 6.1 update sees KDE developers deliver “improvements and powerful new feat…
KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment is now available with explicit GPU synchronization, triple buffering, and many other new features. Here are the details!
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Tails 6.4 amnesic incognito live system is now available for download with random seed support to strengthen all cryptography, as well as the latest Tor technologies.
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HPLIP, the free open-source HP developed Linux driver for HP inkjet and laser based printers, released version 3.24.4 today! The development of HPLIP seems lagging behind. Rather than supporting for current Ubuntu 24.04, the new release adds installer support for Ubuntu 23.10, which will reach end of life next month. It also added support for […]
If you’re looking forward to the upcoming Linux Mint 22 release you’ll be pleased to hear that the Cinnamon 6.2 desktop environment was “released” this weekend. Quote marks because we’re talking a tarball release rather th…
Cinnamon 6.2 desktop environment is now available with various quality-of-life improvements, new features, and many bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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If you’re looking for a more powerful and configurable window tiling experience on Ubuntu, look no further than Tiling Shell, a new GNOME Shell extension which super-charges window snapping with a host of interactive features. Ubuntu improved its…
postmarketOS 24.06 Linux mobile operating system is now available for download with support for KDE Plasma Mobile 6, GNOME Mobile 46, Phosh 0.39, and Sxmo 1.16.3. Here’s what’s new!
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By releasing version 2.0 preview, DevToys is finally a cross-platform app that also works on Linux and macOS! DevToys is a free and open-source tools for developers. It features a set of offline tools all in one app window. They include: JSON <> YAML, Date, Number bases converters. Encoders/Decoders for HTML, URLs, Base64, GZip, JWT, […]
Canonical updates the App Center software in recent Ubuntu releases to allow installation of third-party, externally downloaded DEB packages and also fix some bugs.
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One of the biggest drawback to Ubuntu’s new App Center, the Flutter-based replacement for GNOME’s Software Center, is that it doesn’t let you install DEBs downloaded from the web. To be clear (since confusion often creeps in) the Ubun…
Audacious, the popular lightweight audio player, released new 4.4 version this Wednesday! The new release of this free open-source music player restores Lyrics plugin for GTK interface, and adds new provider chartlyrics.com. Thanks to Michel Fleur, there’s now “Background Music” plugin, under “Effect” tab in the Plugin page, allows to make the sound equally loud […]
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 186 hardened open-source GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download with experimental Btrfs support, CPU frequency scaling for Raspberry Pi, and more.
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A RISC-V laptop preloaded with Ubuntu is in development, and Canonical is involved. The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is made by DeepComputing, a company formed by self-described “RISC-V pioneers” back in 2022, and based in Hong Kong. Their aim:…
KDE Gear 24.05.1 open-source software suite is now available with improvements for Elisa, Spectacle, KCalc, Ark, Dolphin, and other KDE apps. Here are the details!
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Proton 9.0-2 is now available with support for the Alpha League, Helldivers 2, Black Desert Online, FreestyleFootball R, Hero’s Land, Iragon, SimCity 3000 Unlimited, Warlords Battlecry III, and Battlezone Gold Edition in VR mode games.
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Mozilla Firefox 128 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with a revamped dialog for clearing user data, as well as other changes. Here’s what to expect from the final release in July!
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openSUSE Leap 15.6 operating system is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.4 and featuring KDE Plasma 5.27.11 and GNOME 45.
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We enjoy a cinematic lineup of epic Linux video players, with the likes of VLC and MPlayer being A-list draws — but ready some popcorn because a potential new star is in town. Streaming has become the preferred way to watch video content these days but…