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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 11th, 2016
KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop to Offer a More Efficient Pager, Per-Screen Pagers

KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop to Offer a More Efficient Pager, Per-Screen Pagers

The Activity Pager widgets will also receive improvements

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 11th, 2016
Linux From Scratch and BLFS 7.10 Books Released to Support GCC 6.2.0, Glibc 2.24

Linux From Scratch and BLFS 7.10 Books Released to Support GCC 6.2.0, Glibc 2.24

GNU Binutils 2.27 is supported as well in LFS/BLFS 7.10

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 11th, 2016
Samba 4.5 Is a Massive Release That Improves Security, Adds Many New Features

Samba 4.5 Is a Massive Release That Improves Security, Adds Many New Features

Lots of bugs have been resolved as well in Samba 4.5.0

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 11th, 2016
Linux Kernel 3.14 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Move to Linux 4.4 LTS

Linux Kernel 3.14 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Move to Linux 4.4 LTS

Linux kernel 3.14.79 is the last release in the series

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 10th, 2016
Solus Project Outs Budgie Desktop 10.2.7 with Applet Improvements, OSD Support

Solus Project Outs Budgie Desktop 10.2.7 with Applet Improvements, OSD Support

Raven notification center received some attention as well

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 10th, 2016
KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 Improves the Breeze Icons, Plasma Framework, and Sonnet

KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 Improves the Breeze Icons, Plasma Framework, and Sonnet

Many other KDE components have been updated as well

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 10th, 2016
darktable 2.0.6 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Supports Canon EOS-1D X Mark II

darktable 2.0.6 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Supports Canon EOS-1D X Mark II

Canon EOS M10 and Canon EOS Rebel T6 are also supported

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 10th, 2016
Linux Kernel 3.14 LTS Is About to Reach End of Life, Update 3.14.78 Out Now

Linux Kernel 3.14 LTS Is About to Reach End of Life, Update 3.14.78 Out Now

Users are urged to upgrade their systems immediately

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 9th, 2016
Linux Kernel 4.4.20 LTS Updates the AMDGPU and USB Drivers, Fixes Btrfs Bugs

Linux Kernel 4.4.20 LTS Updates the AMDGPU and USB Drivers, Fixes Btrfs Bugs

All users of the Linux 4.4 LTS kernel series must update

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 9th, 2016
Calibre 2.67 eBook Manager and Viewer Supports Kobo Aura One Firmware Version 4

Calibre 2.67 eBook Manager and Viewer Supports Kobo Aura One Firmware Version 4

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

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 8th, 2016
KDE Applications 16.08.1 Software Suite Released for the KDE Plasma 5.7 Desktop

KDE Applications 16.08.1 Software Suite Released for the KDE Plasma 5.7 Desktop

It contains many fixes for various KDE apps

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 8th, 2016
Kdenlive 16.08.1 Open-Source Video Editor Out with UI Changes, Improved Workflow

Kdenlive 16.08.1 Open-Source Video Editor Out with UI Changes, Improved Workflow

Released as part of KDE Applications 16.08.1

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 7th, 2016
Wireshark 2.2.0 Is Out as the World's Most Popular Network Vulnerability Scanner

Wireshark 2.2.0 Is Out as the World's Most Popular Network Vulnerability Scanner

There are numerous improvements and updates in this release

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 7th, 2016
Linux Kernel 4.7.3 Released with Btrfs and AMDGPU Improvements, Bugfixes

Linux Kernel 4.7.3 Released with Btrfs and AMDGPU Improvements, Bugfixes

All users of the Linux 4.7 kernel series must upgrade

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 6th, 2016
Calamares 2.4 Universal Linux Installer Gets Its First Point Release to Fix Bugs

Calamares 2.4 Universal Linux Installer Gets Its First Point Release to Fix Bugs

Calamares 2.4.1 is now available for download

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 6th, 2016
Orca Screen Reader App Updated for GNOME 3.22 with More LibreOffice Improvements

Orca Screen Reader App Updated for GNOME 3.22 with More LibreOffice Improvements

Orca 3.22 Beta 2 now available for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 6th, 2016
Linux Kernel 3.12.63 LTS Has MIPS and Radeon Improvements, EXT4 and CIFS Fixes

Linux Kernel 3.12.63 LTS Has MIPS and Radeon Improvements, EXT4 and CIFS Fixes

Users of the Linux 3.12 kernel series are urged to update

 
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