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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 19th, 2018
KDE Plasma 5.13 Desktop Environment Gets First Point Release, over 20 Bugs Fixed

KDE Plasma 5.13 Desktop Environment Gets First Point Release, over 20 Bugs Fixed

KDE Plasma 5.13.1 is coming soon to a Linux distro near you

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 17th, 2018
Linus Torvalds Kicks Off Development of Linux Kernel 4.18, First RC Is Out Now

Linus Torvalds Kicks Off Development of Linux Kernel 4.18, First RC Is Out Now

Linux 4.18-rc1 is now ready for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 12th, 2018
KDE Plasma 5.13 Officially Released with Revamped Lock & Login Screens, Settings

KDE Plasma 5.13 Officially Released with Revamped Lock & Login Screens, Settings

It's coming soon to a GNU/Linux distribution near you

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 12th, 2018
Linux Kernel 4.17 Now Ready for Mass Deployments as First Point Release Is Out

Linux Kernel 4.17 Now Ready for Mass Deployments as First Point Release Is Out

Linux kernel 4.17.1 is now available for download

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 8th, 2018
New Flatpak Linux App Sandboxing Release Makes Installations and Updates Faster

New Flatpak Linux App Sandboxing Release Makes Installations and Updates Faster

Flatpak 0.11.8 is now available for download

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 6th, 2018
You Can Now Manage Nitrokey Encryption USB Keys in Ubuntu, Other Linux Distros

You Can Now Manage Nitrokey Encryption USB Keys in Ubuntu, Other Linux Distros

Thanks to Canonical's Snap universal binary format

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 6th, 2018
darktable 2.4.4 Adds 50% Zoom Option in Darkroom Mode, Better Sony a6500 Support

darktable 2.4.4 Adds 50% Zoom Option in Darkroom Mode, Better Sony a6500 Support

Numerous issues have been resolved in this point release

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 5th, 2018
GNU Linux-Libre 4.17 Kernel Arrives for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs

GNU Linux-Libre 4.17 Kernel Arrives for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs

Based on Linux kernel 4.17, but without any proprietary code

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 4th, 2018
Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 4.17 as Linux 5.0 Is Coming Later This Year

Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 4.17 as Linux 5.0 Is Coming Later This Year

The merge window for Linux kernel 4.18 is now open

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 4th, 2018
Linux 3.2 & 4.1 Reach End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Newer LTS Branches

Linux 3.2 & 4.1 Reach End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Newer LTS Branches

Linux 3.2.102 is likely the last maintenance update

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 29th, 2018
PPSSPP, the Best Free PSP Emulator, Switches to Vulkan API as Default Backend

PPSSPP, the Best Free PSP Emulator, Switches to Vulkan API as Default Backend

The OpenGL backend received multithread optimizations

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 25th, 2018
GNOME Foundation to Receive $1M from Anonymous Donor over Next Two Years

GNOME Foundation to Receive $1M from Anonymous Donor over Next Two Years

The money will be invested in the growth of the project

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 25th, 2018
Thunderbolt Networking Now Supported in Linux's NetworkManager Tool

Thunderbolt Networking Now Supported in Linux's NetworkManager Tool

Supported on Linux kernel 4.15 and later versions

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 25th, 2018
GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment Receives Support for ARM64 Hardware Architectures

GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment Receives Support for ARM64 Hardware Architectures

GNOME 3.29.2 is now available for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 25th, 2018
Looks Like GNOME's Nautilus File Manager Will Allow Running of Binaries, Scripts

Looks Like GNOME's Nautilus File Manager Will Allow Running of Binaries, Scripts

The GNOME devs decided to revert the change made last week

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 23rd, 2018
LXQt 0.13 Desktop Environment Officially Released, It's Coming to Lubuntu 18.10

LXQt 0.13 Desktop Environment Officially Released, It's Coming to Lubuntu 18.10

It's now ready for the Qt 5.11 application framework

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • May 23rd, 2018
LibreOffice 6.1 Beta Arrives Next Week for Second Bug Hunting Session on May 28

LibreOffice 6.1 Beta Arrives Next Week for Second Bug Hunting Session on May 28

The final release of LibreOffice 6.1 is expected in August

 
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