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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 30th, 2016
Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.9 Tool for Creating Snaps for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.9 Tool for Creating Snaps for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Snapcraft 2.9 is now live in the Xenial Xerus repos

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 30th, 2016
Calamares 2.2.3 Universal Installer Adds Locale Choice Support on Debian Linux

Calamares 2.2.3 Universal Installer Adds Locale Choice Support on Debian Linux

The release optimizes the startup process

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 30th, 2016
Mesa 12.0.0 3D Graphics Library Enters Development, RC1 Now Ready for Testing

Mesa 12.0.0 3D Graphics Library Enters Development, RC1 Now Ready for Testing

Mesa 12.0.0 Release Candidate 1 has been released today

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 29th, 2016
KDE Partition Manager Now Lets Users Resize Encrypted Filesystems with LUKS

KDE Partition Manager Now Lets Users Resize Encrypted Filesystems with LUKS

KPMcore 2.2.0 is also available for download

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 29th, 2016
Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.7 RC1 with a Big Change to the VFS Layer

Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.7 RC1 with a Big Change to the VFS Layer

Linux 4.7-rc1 is now ready for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 29th, 2016
NetBSD 7.0.1 Released, Adds Security Fixes for BIND, NTP, OpenSSH, and OpenSSL

NetBSD 7.0.1 Released, Adds Security Fixes for BIND, NTP, OpenSSH, and OpenSSL

Xen and Expat also received security fixes

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 29th, 2016
Cinnamon 3.0.4 Desktop Updates the Overlay Scrollbar, Sound and Menu Applets

Cinnamon 3.0.4 Desktop Updates the Overlay Scrollbar, Sound and Menu Applets

The desktop environment is now available for select distros

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 29th, 2016
MKVToolNix 9.2.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Brings Small Fixes and Improvements

MKVToolNix 9.2.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Brings Small Fixes and Improvements

Now available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 28th, 2016
Second Development Release of the GNOME 3.22 Desktop Is Out for Testing

Second Development Release of the GNOME 3.22 Desktop Is Out for Testing

It includes various Wayland improvements and Flatpak support

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 27th, 2016
Wine 1.9.11 Gets Direct3D 11 Improvements, DirectSound Down-Mixing Support

Wine 1.9.11 Gets Direct3D 11 Improvements, DirectSound Down-Mixing Support

Wine 2.0 has received yet another development milestone

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 27th, 2016
Solus Project Announces New Tool for Enabling Better Steam Integration on Linux

Solus Project Announces New Tool for Enabling Better Steam Integration on Linux

Users can force Steam for Linux to run in 32-bit mode

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 27th, 2016
pfSense 2.3.1 FreeBSD Firewall Update Patches Web GUI Security Issue, Seven Bugs

pfSense 2.3.1 FreeBSD Firewall Update Patches Web GUI Security Issue, Seven Bugs

It also addresses seven other security issues

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 26th, 2016
Polari IRC Client Is Getting New Features for the GNOME 3.22 Desktop Environment

Polari IRC Client Is Getting New Features for the GNOME 3.22 Desktop Environment

Polari 3.21.2 has been released for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 26th, 2016
Second GTK+ 3.22 Milestone Now Ready for Testing with Multiple Wayland Fixes

Second GTK+ 3.22 Milestone Now Ready for Testing with Multiple Wayland Fixes

GTK+ 3.21.2 is now ready for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 26th, 2016
Kernel Live Patching for 64-Bit IBM POWER8 Machines Coming in Linux 4.7

Kernel Live Patching for 64-Bit IBM POWER8 Machines Coming in Linux 4.7

Kernel live patching has been enabled for PPC64le

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 25th, 2016
Linux Kernel 3.18.34 LTS Has OCFS2 Improvements, Updated Intel GPU Drivers, More

Linux Kernel 3.18.34 LTS Has OCFS2 Improvements, Updated Intel GPU Drivers, More

All users of the Linux 3.18 LTS kernel branch need to update

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 24th, 2016
Linux Kernel 4.1.25 LTS Improves the OCFS2 Shared-Disk Cluster File System

Linux Kernel 4.1.25 LTS Improves the OCFS2 Shared-Disk Cluster File System

All users of the Linux 4.1 kernel branch must update

 
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