Category: News
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Celebrating 20 Years of Notepad++ with a Brand-New Release
The open-source text editor Notepad++ is marking its 20th anniversary with a new release packed with exciting new features. The 238th release since 2003, titled Notepad++ 8.6, introduces additions to its robust feature set with an enhanced multi-edit feature, specifically for its Windows-based code tool. While I’m not a developer myself, with my coding experience…
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Blue Recorder: The Linux Screencast App Now Ported to GTK4
GNOME Shell’s built-in screen recording feature is perfect at capturing short clips but when you need to record longer sessions you should use a dedicated screen recording app. Such tools give you greater control over video quality, output format, sound capture, frame rate, and so on — all vitally important if you’re looking to create…
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Unveiling the New Features: Official Release of PipeWire 1.0 “El Presidente”
PipeWire 1.0 has been launched today as an important development in the modern software ecosystem for managing audio and video streams and hardware on Linux platforms. Notable features of PipeWire 1.0 incorporate jackdbus support switched on by standard, compatibility for both old and new renditions of webrtc-audio-processing, the feature for on-demand combined streams utilizing metadata,…
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Release Update: OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Launched as Final KDE Plasma 5 Edition, Backed by Linux 6.6 LTS
The OpenMandriva project announced the general availability of OpenMandriva Lx 5.0, a major release for this completely community-driven GNU/Linux distribution, and also, a direct successor of Mandriva Linux. Equipped with the most recent Linux 6.6 LTS kernel series, OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 is presented as the final OpenMandriva Lx release loaded with the KDE Plasma 5…
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Musique Music Player Successfully Ported to Qt 6: A Refreshing UI Overhaul
Musique 1.12 running in Ubuntu 23.10 It’s been a while since I last wrote about Musique, an open-source desktop music player for Windows, macOS, and Linux (I first featured it in 2010, back when it was called MiniTunes). Amazingly, the app is still going, and it just received its first major update in almost 3…
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Introducing Qt Creator 12: New Release Includes Screen Recording and Compiler Explorer Plugins
The Qt Project announced today the release and general availability of Qt Creator 12 as the latest stable update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) application. Qt Creator 12 is here four months after Qt Creator 11 and introduces several new features, starting with the integration of the Compiler Explorer created…
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Ubuntu 23.10 Receives Newly Updated GNOME Shell 45.1
The recent GNOME Shell 45.1 update has begun rolling out to users of Ubuntu 23.10. As the first point release issued to GNOME Shell since the GNOME 45 release in September, the update ships with an miscellaneous assortment of bug fixes, code cleanups, and crash remedies. Specific fixes mentioned in the official upstream changelog include:…
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Pano Clipboard Manager Extends Support to GNOME 45
Pano in Ubuntu 23.10 – working well In the world of Linux clipboard managers few can match the panache of Pano, a GNOME Shell extension I first wrote about last year. Pano offers an interactive, visually-rich dashboard from which to store, search, and organise your clipboard history. It’s similar to the popular macOS app Paste…
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Mozilla Firefox 121: Default Enablement of Wayland Support on Linux Announced
With the release of Firefox 120 hitting the stable software repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distributions, Mozilla has now promoted the Firefox 121 release to the beta change for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements. Since we’re gearing up for the year of the Wayland desktop,…
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EndeavourOS Galileo Release: Switching from Xfce to KDE Plasma
EndeavourOS has a new major release today dubbed Galileo, which comes with some significant and exciting changes for fans of this Arch Linux-based rolling release distribution. Apart from being powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.6 LTS kernel series, the biggest change in EndeavourOS Galileo is the adoption of KDE Plasma as the default…
