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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,…
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Improved Display Rendering: An Update on Plymouth Linux Graphical Boot Manager
Plymouth, the open-source graphical boot animation and logger application, has been updated to version 23.51.283, a release that brings various new features and improvements. It’s been more than a year since the last Plymouth release. During this time, the developers worked hard to introduce new features. These include a new plugin named “label-freetype” designed for…
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Unveiling Darktable 4.6: What’s New in the Latest Open-Source RAW Image Editor Release
Today marks the launch of Darktable 4.6, an updated version of the cross-platform, open-source, and cost-free RAW image editor compatible with GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows environments. In Darktable 4.6, there’s a brand-new feature that automatically saves your editing progress every 10 seconds when using the darkroom view. There’s also an additional “rgb primaries” processing module,…
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Easy Steps to Give Your Ubuntu Desktop a Festive Christmas Makeover
It’s time to deck the digital halls: Christmas is just a few days away! By now you’ll have put up your Xmas tree (which the cat’s since stripped), you’ll have wrapped the presents (impeccably well, I’m sure), and said HECK NO to the eggnog (wise, it is gross). But did you leave your trusty Ubuntu…
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Introducing Firefox 121: Now Defaulting to Wayland on Linux
Mozilla Firefox 121 has been released, and it’s a notable one for Linux Wayland users. For the Ubuntu 23.10 release, the Firefox Snap runs in Wayland mode by default (and like many of you I’ve noticed nothing but bountiful benefits resulting from the switch). Mozilla’s workshop elves were clearly happy with the success of that…
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GUADEC 2024: Denver to Host GNOME 46 Desktop Conference
GNOME Foundation announced today the dates and location for their annual GNOME Users and Developers European Conference (GUADEC) conference in 2024. Every year, GUADEC gathers GNOME users and developers from all over the world to share knowledge and discuss the new features and changes of the next major release of the GNOME desktop environment. GUADEC…
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Introducing Armbian Linux: Now Accessible on Raspberry Pi 5 Computers
The Armbian project declared recently that their Debian/Ubuntu-oriented ARM distribution is now compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers and supports Cinnamon, GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, and i3 environments. For followers of Raspberry Pi, this comes as a genuine Christmas present as they now have the chance to install a thoroughly optimized GNU/Linux distribution onto…
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Advancements in KDE Plasma 6 for Mobile: Strong Applet Support in the Works
KDE Plasma 6 for the Linux desktop is on the horizon, with Plasma Mobile developers diligently updating the mobile version of Plasma to align with the latest KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6 frameworks, ensuring parity with the Plasma 6 desktop environment. In a detailed blog post, Plasma Mobile developer Devin Lin shared insights into…
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Download Now: Manjaro 23.1 ‘Vulcan’ Comes Packed with GNOME 45 and Linux 6.6 LTS
Manjaro Linux 23.1 can now be downloaded as the inaugural major update in the Manjaro Linux 23 series, which introduces an updated kernel, refreshed desktop environments, and enhanced components to this distro based on Arch Linux. You can check it out here. The release comes slightly more than three months following Manjaro 23.0, and it’s…
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Ubuntu Developing Snaps for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
Productivity is on the minds of the Ubuntu’s desktop developers as they plan what features to ship in the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release. Given that many folks now use of web-based office tools like Microsoft 365 Online and Google Workspace (which is sometimes referred to as ‘gsuite’ by its fans), some time-saving convenience is…
