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Introducing AI Audio Effects to Audacity: Featuring Voice Transcription
Intel has rolled out a series of AI effects for the open-source sound editor Audacity. Intel’s OpenVINO AI plugins for Audacity, as they’re officially called, are designed to function offline and locally, so there’s no need for cloud servers, registrations, or subscriptions to use them, you just need sufficiently good hardware! Among the included are…
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IPFire Linux Firewall Distros Start 2024 Strong with Default Email Spam Blocking
Michael Tremer, the developer of IPFire, has announced the release of IPFire 2.27 Core Update 182. This marks the first update of 2024 for this hardened, flexible, and modern open-source Linux firewall distribution designed for routers and firewalls. The IPFire 2.27 Core Update 182 release features an updated version of the GRUB bootloader (version 2.12…
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Successful Integration of Linux Screenshot App, Shutter, on Wayland by Developer
Are you eager to use the highly acclaimed Linux screenshot tool Shutter on Wayland? Your wish has come true! Even though Shutter’s developments are somewhat consistent (two releases last year), the creators have not yet officially extended its support for working under Wayland sessions – a system now employed by the majority of mainstream Linux…
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Nitrux Distro Kicks Off 2024: New ISO Release Without Systemd
Uri Herrera announced the release of Nitrux 3.2.1 today. This serves as the initial ISO snapshot in 2024 for the Debian-based, systemd-free, and immutable GNU/Linux distribution that is centered around the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Under the hood, this update is powered by a Liquorix-incorporated Linux 6.6.9 LTS kernel and comes with the most recent…
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Improving Accessibility: GNOME Simplifies Discovery of Nautilus’ Custom Folder Feature
A few months ago, I wrote a guide detailing how to set custom folder icons in Nautilus without the need for installing third-party apps or altering the icon set. This is accomplished using a feature inherent to the Nautilus file manager. This feature isn’t even a novelty as the file manager has been allowing users…
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Official Release of MX Linux Raspberry Pi Edition for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 SBCs
The developers of the Debian-derived MX Linux distribution have launched a Raspberry Pi version, designed for those seeking to use the single-board computers. The MX Linux Raspberry Pi Edition was initially released in mid-November 2023 and has been trialed on Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. It comes along…
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End of Support for Ubuntu 23.04 Coming on January 25, 2024
Official support for Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ ends on January 25, 2024 — just under a month away at the time I’m writing this post. As an interim/short-term support release, Ubuntu 23.04 receives 9 months of updates from release. Having been released in April of 2023, January 2024 is when the Lunar Lobster hits end…
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Firefox 122 Launches Public Beta Test: Exploring Its Enhanced Translation Feature
Now that Firefox 121 has made its arrival in the stable software repositories of various GNU/Linux distributions, those curious to try the upcoming major release, Firefox 122, have the ability to download the most recent beta version. At first glance, Firefox 122 appears to be a minor update to the well-known open-source web browser, which…
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HandBrake 1.7.2 Update: Enhanced Automatic Selection of Dolby Vision Level
HandBrake 1.7.2 has been released today for this open-source, free, and cross-platform video transcoder app that you can use to convert and encode between numerous digital video files. HandBrake 1.7.2 is here about five weeks after HandBrake 1.7 as a modest update that improves the automatic selection of Dolby Vision Level and the performance of…
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Announcing the New Stable Release of Enlightenment Desktop
An early Christmas treat has arrived for those seeking Enlightenment — no, not spiritual concept, but the EFL-based desktop shell for Linux and BSD systems. Enlightenment 0.26.0 is a modest improvement to Enlightenment 0.25, which was released in December 2021. For those unfamiliar with it, Enlightenment (sometimes referred to as just ‘E’) is a clever,…
