- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Marius Nestor
- September 11th, 2016
4MLinux 20.0 Distribution to Be the First to Run on UEFI PCs, Core Beta Out Now
Includes Linux kernel 4.4.17, Glibc 2.23, and BusyBox 1.25.0
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 11th, 2016
KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop to Offer a More Efficient Pager, Per-Screen Pagers
The Activity Pager widgets will also receive improvements
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- September 11th, 2016
It Looks like Descent OS 5.0 Linux Will Be Based on Debian After All, Not Ubuntu
Descent OS 5.0 RC1 "Mulligan" now ready for public testing
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 11th, 2016
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
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 11th, 2016
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
- Open Source Software
- 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 3.14.79 is the last release in the series
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 10th, 2016
Solus Project Outs Budgie Desktop 10.2.7 with Applet Improvements, OSD Support
Raven notification center received some attention as well
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 10th, 2016
KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 Improves the Breeze Icons, Plasma Framework, and Sonnet
Many other KDE components have been updated as well
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- September 10th, 2016
Linux Lite 3.2 to Land on November 1, 2016, Offer Dual-Booting with Other OSes
Windows will still be supported for dual-booting in GRUB
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 10th, 2016
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
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 10th, 2016
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
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- September 10th, 2016
Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Now Has a Default Wallpaper, Available in Two Flavors
This is the new default wallpaper of Ubuntu 16.10
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- September 9th, 2016
You Can Now Register for the First European Ubuntu Conference, UbuCon Europe
The event will take place November 18 to 20, 2016
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- September 9th, 2016
elementary OS 0.4 "Loki" Officially Released, It's Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
A major version that introduces a large numbers of features
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- September 9th, 2016
Linux Mint 18 "Sarah" KDE Edition Officially Released, Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
The distribution ships with the KDE Plasma 5.6 desktop
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 9th, 2016
New Linux Trojan Discovered Coded in Mozilla's Rust Language
Trojan is not yet finished, still a work in progress
- Open Source Software
- By Marius Nestor
- September 9th, 2016
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