Category: News
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KDE Plasma 6.1 Released With a Plethora of Exciting New Features!
“`html KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released with a plethora of productivity and performance-minded improvements. Building on the KDE Plasma 6.0 release from earlier in this year, the 6.1 update sees KDE developers deliver “improvements and powerful new features to every part of your desktop”, with promises that future updates will see things ‘get more…
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Cinnamon 6.2 Desktop Stable Release Prepares the Way for Linux Mint 22
If you’re looking forward to the upcoming Linux Mint 22 release you’ll be pleased to hear that the Cinnamon 6.2 desktop environment was “released” this weekend. Quote marks because we’re talking a tarball release rather than “it’s rolling out to all existing users”. Indeed, Cinnamon 6.2 will, as I’m sure you’re aware, ship as the…
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Exploring What’s New in the Newly Released Cinnamon 6.2 Desktop Environment
The Cinnamon 6.2 desktop environment reached stable status today as the Linux Mint developers published the first tarball in the 6.2 series, which will be the default in the upcoming Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” release. Cinnamon 6.2 looks like a smaller release than Cinnamon 6.0 as it only introduces a few changes like greeter badges…
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Boost Your Productivity: Super Charged Window Snapping with Tiling Shell on Ubuntu
If you’re seeking a more robust and customizable window tiling experience on Ubuntu, your search ends with Tiling Shell, a new GNOME Shell extension that significantly enhances window snapping. In the previous year, Ubuntu boosted its window tiling capabilities by integrating the ‘Tiling Assistant’ GNOME Shell extension into the default desktop installation. This extension is…
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postmarketOS 24.06: Linux Mobile OS Welcomes KDE Plasma 6 and GNOME Mobile 46
The postmarketOS devs released today postmarketOS 24.06 as the latest stable version of this Alpine Linux-based operating system for mobile devices and computers that introduces support for new devices and the latest versions of supported graphical interfaces. Highlights of postmarketOS 24.06 include support for the Google Nexus 10 tablet, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop, the…
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Ubuntu’s App Center Update: Local DEB Package Installation Now Supported
Some good news today for Ubuntu users running the latest Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) releases as the App Center application has been updated to allow installation of locally downloaded DEB packages. When Canonical replaced the Ubuntu Software Center with the App Center application, which acts as a graphical interface…
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DEB Installers to be Integrated into Ubuntu App Center Soon
One of the biggest drawbacks to Ubuntu’s new App Center, the Flutter-based replacement for GNOME’s Software Center, is that it doesn’t let you install DEBs downloaded from the web. To be clear (since confusion often creeps in), the Ubuntu App Center does allow you to install DEB software as long as it’s in the Ubuntu…
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IPFire Linux Firewall Introduces Experimental Btrfs Support and Intel RFDS Mitigations
The IPFire Project recently announced a new update to their robust open-source GNU/Linux distribution, commonly used as a router or firewall. Known as IPFire 2.29 Core Update 186, this release incorporates various changes, introduces experimental support for the Btrfs file system, and updates multiple components. The IPFire 2.29 Core Update 186 features an upgraded kernel…
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Introducing the World’s First RISC-V Laptop Powered by Ubuntu
A RISC-V laptop preloaded with Ubuntu is in development, and Canonical is involved. The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is made by DeepComputing, a company formed by self-described “RISC-V pioneers” back in 2022, and based in Hong Kong. Their aim: develop and release all kinds of products to help drive development of the RISC-V ecosystem. And…
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Proton 9.0-2 Update: New Support for Alpha League, Helldivers 2, and More Exciting Game Titles
Valve released today Proton 9.0-2 as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems. Proton 9.0-2 is here about five weeks after the major Proton 9.0 release to add support for even more games, including Alpha League, Helldivers…