Category: News
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Linux Mint 22 Beta on the Horizon: ISO Enters Testing Phase
As the Cinnamon 6.2 release indicated, the upcoming Linux Mint 22 release is getting mighty close. But before a stable release can be made, there has to be a beta. Don’t get excited — a Linux Mint 22 Beta isn’t available to download, not yet! But it seems a public beta isn’t too far away.…
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Latest Tiling Shell Update Introduces New Keyboard Shortcuts and Exciting Features
Tiling Shell, the Windows 11-esque window snapping extension I spotlighted last week received an update at the weekend, adding enhancements I feel are worthy of mention. This includes a request to support snapping windows in the active tiling layout using the keyboard only. Because although that slide-in drop-over Snap Assistant widget makes using Tiling Shell…
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How to Get Early Access to Firefox’s New Tab Page Weather Widget
As you may know, Mozilla has big plans for its browser and, among the many new features set to rain down on us this year is greater personalisation of the new tab page. While the ability to set a new tab background image is the most eye-catching (literally) customisation change in the immediate offing, a…
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Budgie 10.9.2 Desktop Released: New Bug Fixes and Ongoing Wayland Porting Efforts
Budgie developer Joshua Strobl announced the release of Budgie 10.9.2 as a minor maintenance update in the Budgie 10.9 series of this modern desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions. While the Budgie devs are hard at work porting the desktop environment to the modern Wayland display protocol, slated for the Budgie 10.10 release, they pushed a…
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Discover What’s New in the Latest Release of Darktable 4.8 Open-Source RAW Image Editor
Darktable 4.8 open-source raw image editor has been released today as a major update introducing new features, improvements, and enhanced camera support. Highlights of Darktable 4.8 include a new color equalizer module to control hue, lightness, and saturation based on colors, two new modules to support image composition, namely Enlarge Canvas and Overlay, as well…
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ONLYOFFICE 8.1 Launch: Enhanced PDF Editor and Additional Features
A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source, and cross-platform office suite, is now available to download. If you’ve not yet found a reason to try this productivity powerhouse out, this latest update could well change that. Last autumn’s ONLYOFFICE 7.5 release added a new PDF application to the suite. This could open/view…
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Tor Browser 13.5: Enhanced Fingerprinting Protections and Optimized Bridge Settings
Tor Browser 13.5, an open-source web browser for browsing the Web without tracking, surveillance, or censorship, has been released today as a major update that brings enhancements to desktop and mobile. Coming more than eight months after Tor Browser 13.0, the Tor Browser 13.5 release introduces an improved user experience of the fingerprinting protections by…
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Ubuntu Summit 2024: Location and Date Details Revealed
Fancy rubbing shoulders with the great and the good in the Ubuntu community, learning new things, seeing cool demos, and perhaps getting a bit merry with your fellow geeks? If so, make a date to attend the Ubuntu Summit, which this year is being held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from October 25-27th. As always,…
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Framework Laptop 13 to Offer New Drop-In RISC-V Mainboard for Enhanced Customization
Those of you who own a Framework Laptop 13 —consider me jealous, btw— or are considering buying one in the near future, you may be interested to know that a RISC-V motherboard option is in the works. DeepComputing, the company behind the recently-announced Ubuntu RISC-V laptop, is working with Framework Computer Inc, the company behind…
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KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Released: A Look at the Exciting New Features
The KDE Project has announced the general availability of KDE Plasma 6.1, the latest version of their acclaimed desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions. KDE Plasma 6.1 is the first major update since KDE Plasma 6.0, and it includes exciting new features. Notably, it offers explicit GPU synchronization support for NVIDIA users, which aims to enhance…