Category: News
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WSL Updates Announced by Microsoft: Introducing New Settings App
Users who are using Ubuntu on Windows via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) may be interested to know that significant updates are coming. In a blog post from the recent Microsoft BUILD event, the senior product manager for Windows developer platforms, Craig Loewen, outlined what’s in store for WSL users. Many of the experimental…
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Introducing System76’s Darter Pro Linux Laptop: Now with 16:10 Display and Intel Core Ultra CPUs
System76, a Linux hardware vendor, today revealed the newest iteration of their Darter Pro Linux-operated ultrabook. This model incorporates Intel Core Ultra processors and Intel Arc graphics, in addition to an improved display and various other enhancements. The last update to the Darter Pro was over three years ago. The current version of this Linux-operated…
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Mozilla Firefox 126.0.1 Resolves Drag and Drop Issue on Linux: Update Details
This month’s Firefox 126 release brought with it a modest set of improvements for Linux users — as well as an annoying bug which temporarily breaks drag and drop actions in the browser. And that bug was easy to trigger: select some text or an image on a web page, then ‘drag’ it out but…
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Release of Transmission 4.0.6: Open-Source BitTorrent Client with Multiple Fixes
Open-source, free, and cross-platform BitTorrent client, Transmission 4.0.6, is out today. As a bugfix-only release in the 4.0.x series, it addresses various issues users reported from previous versions. Transmission 4.0.6 comes about six months after Transmission 4.0.5. It’s here to enhance the parsing of the HTTP tracker announce response, update the Flatpak release metainfo, improve…
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Ubuntu 24.04 Debuts on the Milk-V Mars (RISC-V Computer): The New Era of Space Computing
Ubuntu 24.04 is now available for the Milk-V Mars RISC-V single board computer (SBC). RISC-V is an open-source processor specification, permitting any individual to access its blueprint to develop their unique chips without needing to pay any licensing fees or royalties. Its resemblance to a Linux distro allows for collaboration, contribution, and enhancement of RISC-V consistently.…
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KaOS Linux 2024.05 Updates: Introducing Bcachefs Support and Marknote Note-Taking App
The independent development team that created the KDE-based KaOS Linux distribution announced the release and general availability of KaOS 2024.05. This latest stable snapshot image for May 2024 includes all the recent software updates. Released almost three months after KaOS 2024.03, KaOS 2024.05 comes with the newest KDE software, including the KDE Plasma 6.0.5 desktop…
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Optimization of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Milk-V Mars RISC-V SBC Now Available
Canonical, the creators of the widely used Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced that an optimized image of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available for the Milk-V Mars RISC-V single-board computer. The Milk-V Mars board, described as the world’s first credit-card-sized high-performance RISC-V SBC from Milk-V, utilizes the StarFive JH7110 processor integrated with a 3D GPU. This…
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Exploring the Features of the Day Progress GNOME Shell Extension
Day Progress is a fresh GNOME Shell extension, showcasing a progress bar in the panel to depict the day’s elapsed time. It’s a visual way to stay motivated and offers an abstract view on time tracking distinct from a typical clock. The extension is directly influenced by a macOS app bearing the same name, conceived…
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Release News: Armbian 24.5 Supports Orange Pi 5 Pro and Radxa ROCK 5 ITX
The Armbian community has reported to 9to5Linux.com today about the release of Armbian 24.5, codenamed Havier. This is the latest reliable version of the Debian/Ubuntu-based platform for ARM apparatuses. The new version, Armbian 24.5, arrives nearly two months following the release of Armbian 24.2. It inaugurates support for novel devices such as Orange Pi 5…
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Linus Torvalds Debuts First Release Candidate of Linux Kernel 6.10
Linus Torvalds has announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) of the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel series for public testing. Two weeks have passed since the merge window for Linux kernel 6.10 was opened after the launch of the Linux kernel 6.9. This version is gradually integrating into the stable software repositories…