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Germany to Fund Open Source Software Maintainers Through New Fellowship Program

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund unveils a new program to fund maintainers of open-source projects that’s expected to be up and running by year’s end.
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KDE Plasma 6.1.4 Desktop Released With Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

KDE Plasma 6.1.4 is here three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.1.3 and improves the smoothness of resizing Plasma widgets, updates textual-list-style group pop-up of Plasma’s Task Manager to scale properly, and refines how KRunner matches text to System Settings pages to be less aggressive about showing them to users for searches with a very weak […]

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KDE Plasma 6.1.4 Desktop Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

KDE Plasma 6.1.4 is now available as the latest update to the KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!
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Firefox 129 Released with New Tab Wallpapers & Reader View Tweaks

Mozilla Firefox 129 is now available download, and comes with a couple of features customisation fans are sure to enjoy. It’s been 4 weeks since Firefox 128 dished out a unified cookie, cache n’ data clearing experience, the abili…

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Germany to Fund Open Source Software Maintainers Through New Fellowship Program

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund unveils a new program to fund maintainers of open source projects that’s expected to be up and running by year’s end.
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How AlmaLinux Came to Be Fixing Bugs Ahead of a Content Creation-Focused Open-Source Event

This is a story about a software project and a small Linux Foundation-sponsored conference for a niche audience that’s generally beneath the radar. The software project is AlmaLinux. The conference is Open Source Days, a one-day event that will happen on Sunday in Denver, although I could just as easily say that it’s SIGGRAPH, a […]

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PG Back Web Brings User-Friendly PostgreSQL Backups to All

Meet PG Back Web, a fresh open-source project offering a hassle-free PostgreSQL automatic backup solution via a sleek web interface.
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Amarok 3.1 Released With Updated Last.fm Plugin, Last.fm Similar Artists Applet

Coming a little over three months after Amarok 3.0, the Amarok 3.1 release introduces a new version of the Last.fm Similar Artists context applet that works with the Amarok 3.x series and an updated Last.fm plugin that now uses a token-based authentica…

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Firefox 129 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Firefox 129 is now available for download, featuring HTTPS default, improved Reader View, new multilingual support in VoiceOver, and more.
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PeaZip 9.9 Open-Source Archive Manager Adds Internal Drag-and-Drop Features

PeaZip 9.9 has been released today for this open-source, free, and cross-platform file compression and encryption software featuring both GTK and Qt graphical user interfaces.
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Scrcpy 2.6 Added Mirroring Android Audio Support

Scrcpy, the free open-source Android screen mirroring app, released version 2.6 (then 2.6.1 with quick fix) a few days ago. Scrcpy is an app works on Linux, Windows, and macOS, allowing users to remote access and control their Android screen from PC/laptop, either wireless through TCP/IP in same network or wired with USB cable. It […]

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Immich 1.111 Enhances Mobile Photo Editing

Immich 1.111, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution, rolls out an enhanced UI and new mobile photo editor features like rotate and crop.
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Podman 5.2 Enhances macOS VMs With GPU Support

Podman 5.2 container management tool brings VM creation on macOS with libkrun, supports GPUs, and expands Quadlet capabilities.
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Manjaro Linux Unveils Immutable Variant

Manjaro Linux expands its offerings with a new immutable edition that is now open for community feedback and testing. Here’s more on that!
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Mozilla Firefox 129 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 129 open-source web browser is now available for download wtih improved reader view, new developer features, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Linux Kernel 6.9 Reaches End of Life, Users Must Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.10

Since Linux kernel 6.9 is not an LTS (Long Term Support) branch, it was only supported for a couple of months and is now marked as EOL (End of Life) on the kernel.org website. Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has urged users to move t…

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GNOME Now Has an Official Extension for Legacy Tray Icons

As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This is non-default package is “a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to GNOME Shell&…

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IBM Report: Breach Costs Continue to Rise While Consumers Foot the Bill

One surprises in this years Cost of a Data Breach Report is that generative AI is being successfully used not only to prevent data breaches, but to substantially lower the cost of a breach when one happens.
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 4th, 2024

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 4th, 2024, brings news about Ubuntu Touch OTA-5, Serpent OS, Nitrux 3.6, Linux 6.9 EOL. Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4, PeaZip 9.9, Amarok 3.1, as well as all the latest distro and software releases.
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Amarok 3.1 Released with Updated Last.fm Plugin, Last.fm Similar Artists Applet

Amarok 3.1 open-source music player is now available for download with a refreshed Last.fm plugin, Last.fm Similar Artists context applet, and more. Here’s what’s new!
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