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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 21st, 2018
NetBSD 8.0 Released with Spectre V2/V4, Meltdown, and Lazy FPU Mitigations

NetBSD 8.0 Released with Spectre V2/V4, Meltdown, and Lazy FPU Mitigations

Also includes numerous bug fixes and stability improvements

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 21st, 2018
GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment to Enter Beta on August 1, GNOME 3.29.4 Is Out

GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment to Enter Beta on August 1, GNOME 3.29.4 Is Out

GNOME 3.29.4 now available as the last development snapshot

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 20th, 2018
Cinnamon 4.0 Desktop Environment Promises to Be Fast and Have No Screen Tearing

Cinnamon 4.0 Desktop Environment Promises to Be Fast and Have No Screen Tearing

It will probably ship with the next major Linux Mint release

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 20th, 2018
Microsoft's PowerShell Available on Ubuntu as a Snap, Here's How to Install It

Microsoft's PowerShell Available on Ubuntu as a Snap, Here's How to Install It

A powerful tool for system administrators and power-users

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 12th, 2018
KDE Applications 18.04 Reaches End of Life, KDE Apps 18.08 Coming August 16

KDE Applications 18.04 Reaches End of Life, KDE Apps 18.08 Coming August 16

KDE Applications 18.04.3 is now available for download

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 10th, 2018
KDE Plasma 5.13.3 Desktop Environment Released with More Than 30 Improvements

KDE Plasma 5.13.3 Desktop Environment Released with More Than 30 Improvements

All existing users are urged to update their installations

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 6th, 2018
Mozilla Firefox 61 "Quantum" Web Browser Is Now Available for Ubuntu Linux Users

Mozilla Firefox 61 "Quantum" Web Browser Is Now Available for Ubuntu Linux Users

Available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 17.10, 16.04 LTS & 14.04 LTS

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 5th, 2018
LibreOffice 6.1 Release Candidate Available Now for Final Bug Hunting Session

LibreOffice 6.1 Release Candidate Available Now for Final Bug Hunting Session

Final LibreOffice 6.1 bug hunting session takes place July 6

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 30th, 2018
Linux Kernel 4.16 Reaches End of Life, Users Are Urged to Upgrade to Linux 4.17

Linux Kernel 4.16 Reaches End of Life, Users Are Urged to Upgrade to Linux 4.17

Linux 4.18.16 is the last maintenance update in the series

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 29th, 2018
Krita 4.1 Open-Source Digital Painting App Lets Users Save and Load Sessions

Krita 4.1 Open-Source Digital Painting App Lets Users Save and Load Sessions

It also lets you create multi-monitor workspace layouts

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 28th, 2018
KDE Plasma 5.12.6 LTS Point Release Brings Better Support for Snap, Flatpak Apps

KDE Plasma 5.12.6 LTS Point Release Brings Better Support for Snap, Flatpak Apps

KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS desktop is supported until

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 26th, 2018
KDE Plasma 5.13.2 Desktop Environment Released with More Than 20 Improvements

KDE Plasma 5.13.2 Desktop Environment Released with More Than 20 Improvements

All users are urged to update as soon as possible

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 22nd, 2018
LibreOffice 6.0 Is Now Ready for Mainstream Users and Enterprise Deployments

LibreOffice 6.0 Is Now Ready for Mainstream Users and Enterprise Deployments

LibreOffice 6.0.5 is now available to download

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 21st, 2018
PulseAudio 12 Open-Source Sound System Released with AirPlay, A2DP Improvements

PulseAudio 12 Open-Source Sound System Released with AirPlay, A2DP Improvements

This release also brings various A2DP Bluetooth improvements

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 21st, 2018
GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment Gets New Milestone, Beta Expected on August 1

GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment Gets New Milestone, Beta Expected on August 1

GNOME 3.29.3 is now available for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 21st, 2018
Flatpak 1.0 Linux Application Sandboxing & Distribution Framework Is Almost Here

Flatpak 1.0 Linux Application Sandboxing & Distribution Framework Is Almost Here

Flatpak 0.99.1 is the first pre-release before Flatpak 1.0

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 19th, 2018
June 19 Has Been Declared National FreeBSD Day, Happy 25th Anniversary FreeBSD!

June 19 Has Been Declared National FreeBSD Day, Happy 25th Anniversary FreeBSD!

A free and open-source Unix-like operating system

 
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