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GNOME 47 Beta Desktop Released with Many Changes, Here’s What’s New
GNOME 47 beta desktop environment is now available for public testing with numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s changed since the alpha release.
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LibreOffice 24.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
The Document Foundation released today LibreOffice 24.8 as the latest stable version of this popular, powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite for GNU/Linux systems.
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PipeWire 1.2.3 Implements Freewheeling Support in the FFADO Driver
PipeWire 1.2.3 open-source multimedia server is now available with freewheeling support and improved sample rate and buffer size handling in the FFADO driver, as well as other changes.
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KDE Gear 24.08
Every 4 months, KDE releases a long list of new versions of applications all at the same time
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Fwupd 1.9.24 Firmware Updater Adds Support for Capsule-on-Disk for Dell Systems
fwupd 1.9.24 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for capsule-on-disk for Dell systems, support for more MediaTek scaler devices, support for Parade USB hubs and other changes.
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NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Released with Open GPU Kernel Modules by Default
NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux graphics driver is now available with open GPU kernel modules enabled by default, as well as numerous other new features and improvements.
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Ryzen 9 9950X runs 16% faster on an Intel-optimized Linux distro
Linux often the leads Windows in benchmark comparisons
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Rianne's Birthday [original]
There's lots to celebrate and maybe we'll post some photos afterwards
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Why Microsoft is Trying to Break Dual-Boot Machines (It Always Looks Like an "Accident") [original]
In India, GNU/Linux is measured at over 16%
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More Layoffs in IBM This Week [original]
"I was RAed from Marketing and Communications and the reason we were given is that our job in the U.S. no longer exists and is being moved overseas, to build a bigger presence in Brazil, Romania and India...So now they are laying off in those places? Good grief, it's all a ruse."
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Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million
But what does that mean in terms of actual, hard numbers? A percentage is great and all... but how many Linux computers (Desktops and Laptops) are in operation?
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The role of the Linux distro in modern computing
the problem won’t fix itself
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today's leftovers
many more picks, misc. topics
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Changes coming in PostgreSQL 17
The PostgreSQL project has released beta versions of PostgreSQL 17 containing several interesting security and usability improvements, alongside the usual performance improvements and bug fixes
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Open Hardware: ESP32, Raspberry Pi, and More
a handful of stories
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Red Hat on OpenShift and Racism Lawsuit Against IBM
Some IBM leftovers
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Meeting the Debian Technical Committee and Distinguishing Debian testing from unstable
new outside LWN's paywall
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Security Leftovers
Security picks, lots for today
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Microsoft/Windows TCO Leftovers
Microsoft/Windows TCO picks, 4 of them
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A Look at NixOS and Endless OS
Two distros in focus
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Programming Leftovers
Programming picks, lots of them
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Games: GNU/Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Vista 11, New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, and More
Some news about gaming
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today's howtos
only 3 more howtos for now
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Software: Zettlr, syslog-ng, and GNU Parallel
Some Free software picks
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Android Leftovers
Android 15 Beta 4.2 now available for Pixel 9 series
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4 Ways I Increase Privacy on My Linux Laptop
Linux is generally considered to be a privacy-friendly operating system, without the spying we associate with Microsoft and even Apple
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VIDEO: How to Answer Thunderbird Questions on Mozilla Support
Not all heroes wear capes. Some of our favorite superheroes are the community members who provide Thunderbird support on the Mozilla Support (SUMO) forums
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Linux Mint 22 Review: A Deep Dive Into This Minty Fresh Distro - Videos - TuxDigital
the latest version of one of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions
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today's howtos
many howtos for this afternoon
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Security Leftovers
Security picks, 3 in total
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Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
Some hardware projects and such
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Android Leftovers
HMD Skyline: The repairable Android that lets you go dumb in a smart way
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Windows TCO: EDRKillShifter and East Asia
new examples of high Microsoft costs
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Indian State Continues Its Successful Journey With Linux at Schools
A new version update for public schools, offices, and DTP centers. Sounds good
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KDE Gear 24.08 Open-Source Software Suite Released with Many Improvements
KDE Gear 24.08 open-source software suite is now available with improvements for Dolphin, Filelight, Konsole, Kdenlive, Itinerary, Kongress, NeoChat, Tokodon, Kate, Falkon, Okular, Elisa, PlasmaTube, and other KDE apps.
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Fedora Linux 41 Unveils Multi-Version Kubernetes RPMs
Coming soon: Fedora 41 shifts Kubernetes RPMs to support multiple versions in one release, bringing flexibility for K8s administrators
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GStreamer 1.24.7 Released with Audio and Visual Bug Fixes
GStreamer 1.24.7 multimedia framework rolls out with multiple bug fixes
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Games: GOD'S GIFT, Dead Cells, and More
Some of the latest from GamingOnLinux
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This Overlooked Linux Distro Will Give Your Old Laptop a New Life
Ubuntu isn’t your only option for reviving old PCs through Linux
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Pardus – Debian-based distro
Pardus is a Debian-based distro which combines stability and efficiency oriented corporate usage characteristics with speed and up-to-date oriented end user needs
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Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
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Oracle VirtualBox 7.1.0 BETA 2 Is Officially Released
VirtualBox 7.1.0 BETA 2 is now available for download, featuring a modernised user interface with options for both basic and experienced users
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Mozilla has been suspiciously silent about Google and Manifest V3
Last week, Google announced that it is going to remove extensions using Manifest V2 from its Chrome extensions store at a very near time
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GNOME: Best Intentions
This is going to be a bit of a sporadic blog post covering XDG Intents, GSoC and few other updates from GNOME goings on
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The best SSH clients for Linux (and why you need them)
If you're looking for a better way to interact with SSH remote connections
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Google Play purchase verifications annoyances
I've never ever provided any financial details on my Android phones
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5 Linux terminal apps that are better than your default (and why)
The Linux terminal isn't something everyone has to deal with
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Companies: make sustainable contributions
You know what’s great? When companies contribute to open source projects
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Today in Techrights
Some of the latest articles
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