Category: News
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Nitrux Distro Kicks Off 2024: New ISO Release Without Systemd
Uri Herrera announced the release of Nitrux 3.2.1 today. This serves as the initial ISO snapshot in 2024 for the Debian-based, systemd-free, and immutable GNU/Linux distribution that is centered around the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Under the hood, this update is powered by a Liquorix-incorporated Linux 6.6.9 LTS kernel and comes with the most recent…
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Improving Accessibility: GNOME Simplifies Discovery of Nautilus’ Custom Folder Feature
A few months ago, I wrote a guide detailing how to set custom folder icons in Nautilus without the need for installing third-party apps or altering the icon set. This is accomplished using a feature inherent to the Nautilus file manager. This feature isn’t even a novelty as the file manager has been allowing users…
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Official Release of MX Linux Raspberry Pi Edition for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 SBCs
The developers of the Debian-derived MX Linux distribution have launched a Raspberry Pi version, designed for those seeking to use the single-board computers. The MX Linux Raspberry Pi Edition was initially released in mid-November 2023 and has been trialed on Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. It comes along…
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End of Support for Ubuntu 23.04 Coming on January 25, 2024
Official support for Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ ends on January 25, 2024 — just under a month away at the time I’m writing this post. As an interim/short-term support release, Ubuntu 23.04 receives 9 months of updates from release. Having been released in April of 2023, January 2024 is when the Lunar Lobster hits end…
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Firefox 122 Launches Public Beta Test: Exploring Its Enhanced Translation Feature
Now that Firefox 121 has made its arrival in the stable software repositories of various GNU/Linux distributions, those curious to try the upcoming major release, Firefox 122, have the ability to download the most recent beta version. At first glance, Firefox 122 appears to be a minor update to the well-known open-source web browser, which…
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HandBrake 1.7.2 Update: Enhanced Automatic Selection of Dolby Vision Level
HandBrake 1.7.2 has been released today for this open-source, free, and cross-platform video transcoder app that you can use to convert and encode between numerous digital video files. HandBrake 1.7.2 is here about five weeks after HandBrake 1.7 as a modest update that improves the automatic selection of Dolby Vision Level and the performance of…
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Announcing the New Stable Release of Enlightenment Desktop
An early Christmas treat has arrived for those seeking Enlightenment — no, not spiritual concept, but the EFL-based desktop shell for Linux and BSD systems. Enlightenment 0.26.0 is a modest improvement to Enlightenment 0.25, which was released in December 2021. For those unfamiliar with it, Enlightenment (sometimes referred to as just ‘E’) is a clever,…
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Improved Display Rendering: An Update on Plymouth Linux Graphical Boot Manager
Plymouth, the open-source graphical boot animation and logger application, has been updated to version 23.51.283, a release that brings various new features and improvements. It’s been more than a year since the last Plymouth release. During this time, the developers worked hard to introduce new features. These include a new plugin named “label-freetype” designed for…
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Unveiling Darktable 4.6: What’s New in the Latest Open-Source RAW Image Editor Release
Today marks the launch of Darktable 4.6, an updated version of the cross-platform, open-source, and cost-free RAW image editor compatible with GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows environments. In Darktable 4.6, there’s a brand-new feature that automatically saves your editing progress every 10 seconds when using the darkroom view. There’s also an additional “rgb primaries” processing module,…
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Introducing Firefox 121: Now Defaulting to Wayland on Linux
Mozilla Firefox 121 has been released, and it’s a notable one for Linux Wayland users. For the Ubuntu 23.10 release, the Firefox Snap runs in Wayland mode by default (and like many of you I’ve noticed nothing but bountiful benefits resulting from the switch). Mozilla’s workshop elves were clearly happy with the success of that…
