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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 15th, 2016
KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Now in Beta, to Offer a Unified Look, GTK+ Support on Wayland

KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Now in Beta, to Offer a Unified Look, GTK+ Support on Wayland

Right-to-Left languages will be supported as well

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 15th, 2016
GNOME 3.22 Release Candidate Is Out, the Linux Desktop Launches on September 21

GNOME 3.22 Release Candidate Is Out, the Linux Desktop Launches on September 21

The development cycle of the GNOME 3.22 desktop is over

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 15th, 2016
GNOME's File Roller Archive Manager to No Longer Offer a Nautilus Extension

GNOME's File Roller Archive Manager to No Longer Offer a Nautilus Extension

The functionality is now built directly into Nautilus

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 15th, 2016
GNOME Maps App Won't Bring Public Transit Routing to the GNOME 3.22 Desktop

GNOME Maps App Won't Bring Public Transit Routing to the GNOME 3.22 Desktop

It can now render the map continuously around the globe

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 14th, 2016
CUPS 2.2 Printing System Out Now to Support Local IPP Everywhere Print Queues

CUPS 2.2 Printing System Out Now to Support Local IPP Everywhere Print Queues

Multiple security and performance improvements are included

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 14th, 2016
Mutter Window Manager Gets More Wayland Fixes Before the Launch of GNOME 3.22

Mutter Window Manager Gets More Wayland Fixes Before the Launch of GNOME 3.22

Mutter 3.22 Release Candidate is now ready for testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 14th, 2016
Flatpak 0.6.10 Makes the Dependency on systemd in the User Session Optional

Flatpak 0.6.10 Makes the Dependency on systemd in the User Session Optional

OSTree 2016.10 is now required for the installation

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 13th, 2016
Oracle Releases VirtualBox 5.1.6 with Initial Linux Kernel 4.8 Support, More

Oracle Releases VirtualBox 5.1.6 with Initial Linux Kernel 4.8 Support, More

The update offers better XHCI and NVMe support

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 13th, 2016
Ubuntu SDK 4.1.0 IDE Is Powered by Qt Creator 4.1, Adds LXD-Based Backend

Ubuntu SDK 4.1.0 IDE Is Powered by Qt Creator 4.1, Adds LXD-Based Backend

Available now for all supported Ubuntu Linux releases

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 13th, 2016
KDE Plasma 5.7.5 Is the Last in the Series, Plasma 5.8 LTS to Land October 4

KDE Plasma 5.7.5 Is the Last in the Series, Plasma 5.8 LTS to Land October 4

The SDDM 0.14 display manager is now supported

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 12th, 2016
Snapd 2.14.2 Snappy Daemon Released to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Fedora 24 (COPR)

Snapd 2.14.2 Snappy Daemon Released to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Fedora 24 (COPR)

Will soon be available for other supported distros

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 12th, 2016
qBittorrent 3.3.7 Free BitTorrent Client Removes KickassTorrents Search Engine

qBittorrent 3.3.7 Free BitTorrent Client Removes KickassTorrents Search Engine

Now available for Linux, Mac, and Windows OSes

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 12th, 2016
Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.16 Snappy Creator Tool for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.16 Snappy Creator Tool for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

It's a small release that adds various improvements

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 12th, 2016
MKVToolNix 9.4.2 Free MKV Manipulation App Improves the AVC and HEVC Readers

MKVToolNix 9.4.2 Free MKV Manipulation App Improves the AVC and HEVC Readers

Available now for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 12th, 2016
Ubuntu Snappy Core 16 Beta Images Are Now Available for PC and Raspberry Pi 3

Ubuntu Snappy Core 16 Beta Images Are Now Available for PC and Raspberry Pi 3

Raspberry Pi 2 and DragonBoard SBCs are also supported

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 12th, 2016
Linus Torvalds Announces the Release of Linux Kernel 4.8 RC6, One More to Go

Linus Torvalds Announces the Release of Linux Kernel 4.8 RC6, One More to Go

Linux 4.8-rc6 is now ready for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 12th, 2016
Wine Staging 1.9.18 Adds Experimental Support for 1D Textures in D3D10 and D3D11

Wine Staging 1.9.18 Adds Experimental Support for 1D Textures in D3D10 and D3D11

Multiple kernel drivers are now supported in one process

 
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