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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 20th, 2017
Linux Kernel 4.9.5 Released with Updated Radeon Drivers, KVM and PPC Fixes

Linux Kernel 4.9.5 Released with Updated Radeon Drivers, KVM and PPC Fixes

Users of the Linux 4.9 series should update immediately

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 20th, 2017
Docker 1.13 Officially Released, Docker for AWS and Azure Ready for Production

Docker 1.13 Officially Released, Docker for AWS and Azure Ready for Production

Improves Swarm Mode, Docker CLI, and monitoring

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 19th, 2017
Linux 4.9 Is the Next Long-Term Supported Kernel Branch, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux 4.9 Is the Next Long-Term Supported Kernel Branch, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman

All GNU/Linux distributions should adopt Linux kernel 4.9

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 19th, 2017
Mesa 17 Gets a First Release Candidate, Final Planned for Early February 2017

Mesa 17 Gets a First Release Candidate, Final Planned for Early February 2017

Will enable OpenGL 4.0 support for Intel Ivy Bridge GPUs

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 19th, 2017
Flatpak 0.8.1 Lets Users Update Apps by Installing Newer Bundles, Fixes Bugs

Flatpak 0.8.1 Lets Users Update Apps by Installing Newer Bundles, Fixes Bugs

Flatpak was recently adopted by the Solus distribution

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 18th, 2017
Linus Torvalds Announces Subsurface 4.6 Open-Source Dive Log and Planning App

Linus Torvalds Announces Subsurface 4.6 Open-Source Dive Log and Planning App

Implements heatmap visualization of deco tissue loading

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 18th, 2017
Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.25 with Rust Plugin Improvements, Many Bug Fixes

Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.25 with Rust Plugin Improvements, Many Bug Fixes

It's coming soon to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 18th, 2017
Calamares 2.4.6 Distribution-Independent Linux Installer Delivers Improvements

Calamares 2.4.6 Distribution-Independent Linux Installer Delivers Improvements

EFI system partition support has been enhanced

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 17th, 2017
Epiphany Browser to Add New "Copy Image" Context Menu Item, Support IDN URLs

Epiphany Browser to Add New "Copy Image" Context Menu Item, Support IDN URLs

Epiphany 3.22.5 and 3.23.4 now available for download

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 17th, 2017
Canonical Improves Classic Confinement and Aliases Support in Snapd 2.21 Daemon

Canonical Improves Classic Confinement and Aliases Support in Snapd 2.21 Daemon

Available now in the proposed repos of Ubuntu Linux

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 17th, 2017
Oracle Continues to Improve Linux 4.10 Kernel Support in New VirtualBox Releases

Oracle Continues to Improve Linux 4.10 Kernel Support in New VirtualBox Releases

VirtualBox 5.1.14 and 5.0.32 stable release are out now

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 17th, 2017
Wine Staging 2.0 RC5 Improves Support for Apps That Require Windows 7 or Vista

Wine Staging 2.0 RC5 Improves Support for Apps That Require Windows 7 or Vista

Introduces initial support for Mandatory Integrity Control

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 16th, 2017
Linux Kernel 4.4.43 LTS Is a Small Patch with Various Networking Improvements

Linux Kernel 4.4.43 LTS Is a Small Patch with Various Networking Improvements

All users of the Linux 4.4 LTS series must upgrade

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 16th, 2017
Calibre 2.77 Open-Source eBook Library Manager Improves Conversion, News Sources

Calibre 2.77 Open-Source eBook Library Manager Improves Conversion, News Sources

Available now for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 16th, 2017
Kirigami 2.0 Released, KDE's Framework for Convergent Mobile and Desktop UIs

Kirigami 2.0 Released, KDE's Framework for Convergent Mobile and Desktop UIs

Now fully ported to Qt Quick Controls 2, requires Qt 5.7

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 16th, 2017
Linus Torvalds Announces Fourth Linux 4.10 Kernel Release Candidate, Get It Now

Linus Torvalds Announces Fourth Linux 4.10 Kernel Release Candidate, Get It Now

Linux 4.10-rc4 is now available for early adopters

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 15th, 2017
Linux Kernel 4.9.4 Released with Various ARM/ARM64 and Networking Improvements

Linux Kernel 4.9.4 Released with Various ARM/ARM64 and Networking Improvements

Users of the Linux 4.9 kernel are urged to update

 
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