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Exciting Update: Calibre eBook App Now Features Audio ePubs and Custom Notes Support
If Calibre, the well-known open-source ebook manager, could be thought of as a book, it would undoubtedly continually top the bestseller lists due to its comprehensive array of features. The most recent release, Calibre 7, expands this array of features even further. This new update introduces a variety of novel functionalities to the pre-existing features…
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Ubuntu Update: Solution for Opening iWork Documents in LibreOffice Now Available
Ubuntu ships with LibreOffice, a robust open-source office suite adaptable with files composed in other productivity applications, namely Microsoft Office and Apple’s iWork. Although LibreOffice can manage documents produced in Apple Pages (a typing application that saves in .pages format) and Numbers (an application for spreadsheets that stores data in .numbers format), the shared-mime-info bundle…
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Introducing the New Dark GTK Theme and Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support in Raspberry Pi OS
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched an updated version of their Raspberry Pi OS distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers, enhancing the support for the latest Raspberry Pi 5 model, introducing a new dark theme, upgrading various applications, and implementing new features. In the new Raspberry Pi OS release, version 2023-12-05, a new dark GTK…
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Meta and IBM Collaborate to Create an Open-Source AI Powerhouse
Development of open-source AI models just got a major boost with the launch of the AI Alliance, a super-team made up of companies, developers, scientists, academics, and spearheaded by Meta and IBM, owners of Red Hat. While governments around the world wrestle with ways to regulate AI to ensure development is safe, responsible, and not…
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Kali Linux 2023.4 Ethical Hacking Distro Introduces Support for Raspberry Pi 5
Today, Offensive Security unveiled Kali Linux 2023.4, marking the final yearly update for this well-known ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution, which originates from Debian GNU/Linux. Following over three months since Kali Linux 2023.3, Kali Linux 2023.4 emerges with support for the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer supplied through a separate image for those who…
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Exploring the New ‘Spatial Desktop’ Features in Zorin OS 17 Beta
A beta build of the upcoming Zorin OS 17 release is available to download. Zorin OS 17 sees the Ubuntu-based distro rebase on top of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but, interestingly, it includes GNOME 43 rather than GNOME 42, which is the version included in Ubuntu 22.04. Given the substantial leap from GNOME 3.38 used in…
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New Zorin OS 17 Beta Launch: Featuring Quick Settings, Spatial Desktop and More!
Today, the Zorin OS team announced the general availability for public testing of the beta version of the upcoming Zorin OS 17 release, which promises new and exciting features. Derived from the long-term supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system series, more specifically from the Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS point release with the Linux 6.2…
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How to Use Reco for Recording System Audio & Microphone in Ubuntu
Looking to record system sounds and your microphone at the same time on Ubuntu, and save it to a single audio file? Reco is a free, open-source audio recording app for Linux, written in Vala and GTK. Although it’s designed for elementary OS it works well on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, and doesn’t look…
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How to Use Buttons to Switch Workspaces in Ubuntu 22.04 with this Extension
Ever wondered how to swiftly alternate between workspaces in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS utilizing your mouse? Chances are, you are aware of the Activities button located on the top bar. When you click on this button, it prompts the overview screen that displays all the workspaces that are presently active. By clicking on a specific workspace,…
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December 2023 ISO Release of Arch Linux Features Linux 6.6 LTS and an Updated Installer
Arch Linux 2023.12.01 has been released as the latest ISO snapshot for December 2023 featuring a new kernel and a greatly enhanced installation process. This new release of Arch Linux’s December 2023 ISO incorporates archinstall 2.7, delivering two key features. These include support for the unified kernel image (UKI) – a single, bootable executable straight…
