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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 11th, 2016
Linux Kernel 4.4.15 LTS Adds Many Updated USB Drivers, It's Already in Solus

Linux Kernel 4.4.15 LTS Adds Many Updated USB Drivers, It's Already in Solus

All users of the Linux 4.4 LTS kernel branch must upgrade

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 11th, 2016
KDE Plasma 5.7 Desktop Users Complain About Multi-Screen Support, Fixes Incoming

KDE Plasma 5.7 Desktop Users Complain About Multi-Screen Support, Fixes Incoming

KDE Plasma 5.7 to get its first point release on July 12

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 11th, 2016
Linux Kernel 4.6.4 Released with Networking Improvements and Updated Drivers

Linux Kernel 4.6.4 Released with Networking Improvements and Updated Drivers

Users need to update their systems as soon as possible

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 11th, 2016
Snapd 2.0.10 Snappy Tool Now Available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Here's What's New

Snapd 2.0.10 Snappy Tool Now Available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Here's What's New

Users can install it from the xenial-updates repository

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 11th, 2016
Linux Kernel 4.7 to Be Released July 24 As Linus Torvalds Announces the Last RC

Linux Kernel 4.7 to Be Released July 24 As Linus Torvalds Announces the Last RC

Linux 4.7-rc7 is now available for public testing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 11th, 2016
NAS4Free 10.3.0.3 Embedded Storage Distribution Out Now Based on FreeBSD 10.3

NAS4Free 10.3.0.3 Embedded Storage Distribution Out Now Based on FreeBSD 10.3

Can be used on Windows, Mac and UNIX-like systems

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 10th, 2016
MPlayer-Based MPV Video Player Won't Work Anymore with Different FFmpeg Versions

MPlayer-Based MPV Video Player Won't Work Anymore with Different FFmpeg Versions

Software needs to be rebuilt whenever the libraries change

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 9th, 2016
KDE Frameworks 5.24.0 Released for KDE Plasma 5.7, Improves Many Breeze Icons

KDE Frameworks 5.24.0 Released for KDE Plasma 5.7, Improves Many Breeze Icons

KTextEditor and KWayland received many improvements

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 8th, 2016
Wine 1.9.14 Brings Better Shader Model 5 Support in Direct3D, GDI Improvements

Wine 1.9.14 Brings Better Shader Model 5 Support in Direct3D, GDI Improvements

The Direct3D command stream work advances

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 8th, 2016
Mesa 12.0.0 3D Graphics Library Released with Vulkan Driver for Intel Hardware

Mesa 12.0.0 3D Graphics Library Released with Vulkan Driver for Intel Hardware

It adds DRI3 enablement for VDPAU, VAAPI, and OMX

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 8th, 2016
KDE Plasma 5.8 Desktop Will Be an LTS Release for Stability and Performance

KDE Plasma 5.8 Desktop Will Be an LTS Release for Stability and Performance

KDE Applications 16.08 software suite development starts

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 8th, 2016
Calibre 2.62 eBook Manager Supports the New Kindle Oasis, EPUB 3 Metadata

Calibre 2.62 eBook Manager Supports the New Kindle Oasis, EPUB 3 Metadata

Released for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 7th, 2016
VirtualBox 5.1 Is Just Around the Corner, First Release Candidate Up for Grabs

VirtualBox 5.1 Is Just Around the Corner, First Release Candidate Up for Grabs

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

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 7th, 2016
Samba Patched Against Important SMB2/3 Client Security Issue, Update Now

Samba Patched Against Important SMB2/3 Client Security Issue, Update Now

An attacker could have downgraded client side SMB2 signing

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 7th, 2016
FFmpeg 3.1 "Laplace" Open-Source Multimedia Framework Gets First Point Release

FFmpeg 3.1 "Laplace" Open-Source Multimedia Framework Gets First Point Release

FFmpeg 3.1.1 is now available for select GNU/Linux distros

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 6th, 2016
uNav GPS Navigation App for Ubuntu Phones Now Offers Offline Maps, Convergence

uNav GPS Navigation App for Ubuntu Phones Now Offers Offline Maps, Convergence

Faster and custom Nearby POIs are now available

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  • By Marius Nestor
  • July 6th, 2016
GNOME Calendar Will Support Alarms, GNOME Software to Better Handle Flatpaks

GNOME Calendar Will Support Alarms, GNOME Software to Better Handle Flatpaks

More goodies are coming your way in GNOME 3.22

 
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