Category: News
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Major Update Introduced to Microsoft’s Open-Source Developer Font
Cascadia Code is an open-source monospaced font produced by Microsoft first released in 2020. It is the default typeface for the official Windows Terminal app. Like Intel’s One Mono, JetBrains’ Mono and IBM’s Plex, Cascadia Code is a clean, legible, modern monospaced font specifically designed for terminal and code editing. It also offers a wide…
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Rufus Successfully Resolves Persistent Ubuntu 24.04 USB Creation Issue
Rufus, a popular open-source tool for making bootable USB drives on Windows, just released an update that includes a ‘fix’ for working with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ISOs. A truly versatile tool, Rufus is able to create bootable Windows installers from ISO files and disk images as well as Linux installers and, more pertinent to this…
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KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Launch: Featuring Explicit Sync Support on Wayland
The KDE Project announced today the release of the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment series for public testing. Here’s a first look at the major new features and changes. The biggest new feature in KDE Plasma 6.1 is the highly-anticipated explicit GPU synchronization feature that would benefit users of NVIDIA…
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The New Snap Store Website Redesign: A Successful Facelift!
Stop by the Snap Store website today and you’ll notice it has undergone a revamp – the second redesign of the online storefront in the past 12 months, and more substantive than the first. The search bar has now been condensed and integrated into the header section, which has also gotten rid of the “Search…
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Introducing TUXEDO Stellaris Slim 15 Gen6: The Ultralight Linux Gaming Ultrabook
Today, TUXEDO Computers, the Linux hardware vendor, unveiled the 6th generation of the TUXEDO Stellaris Slim 15 Linux-powered laptop. This new model is a lightweight and thin gaming ultrabook that focuses on providing high performance. The TUXEDO Stellaris Slim 15 Gen6 laptop offers either an Intel Core i9-14900HX or AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processors. It…
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Official Upgrade Enablement for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Now Available
Upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from previous versions is now officially possible, using the standard GUI mechanisms. There’s no need for a command-line developer flag. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS launched on April 25. However, the distro developers delayed direct upgrades to the new version due to some bugs – one of which was quite serious. While…
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Mesa 24.1 Linux Graphics Stack: New Release with Vulkan Explicit Sync Support
The Mesa 24.1 open-source graphics stack for Linux-based operating systems is now ready for download. It’s a significant update which includes new features for supported drivers and numerous enhancements for many games. The major highlight in the Mesa 24.1 graphics stack release is the establishment of explicit sync for Vulkan X11 WSI. This feature has…
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Improvement Update: Slack’s Linux App Resolves Screen Sharing Issue Under Wayland
If you utilize Slack on Ubuntu and have faced issues such as screen sharing under Wayland displaying a black screen or causing the entire application to crash, there’s good news. These issues are now resolved. I’m not an avid Slack user — who would I converse with, myself?! — and although I’m aware that this…
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Release of KDE Plasma 6.0.5: The Final Update in the Series with Added Bug Fixes
The KDE Project rolled out today KDE Plasma 6.0.5, marking the fifth and final maintenance update for the newest version of KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series. The update was dedicated to fixing various bugs and enhancing performance. This update arrives five weeks after KDE Plasma 6.0.4, and it improves the scrolling capability of extended…
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Solving OneDrive File Access Issues in Ubuntu 24.04: A Practical Guide
Of the many new features in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, it’s the ability to access OneDrive files through the Nautilus file manager as a remote mount that stands out. This becomes a reality thanks to the msgraph package. This is a new gvfs backend that Nautilus can work with. Also in the mix are account integration…