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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: Key Highlights for August 4th, 2024
The 199th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 4th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here. Thank you! I want to thank all the people who sent us…
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Amarok 3.1 Released: Enhanced Last.FM Integration, Qt 6 Preparation, and More Exciting Updates
A new version of the Qt-based music player Amarok is available to download. Amarok 3.1 arrives three months after Amarok 3.0, which was the first release in nearly 6 years and saw the developers complete their port to Qt 5 (which receives further polish here, in 3.1). With Qt 6 now out, work to port…
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PeaZip 9.9: New Internal Drag and Drop Features Enhance the Open-Source Archive Manager
PeaZip 9.9 has been released today for this open-source, free, and cross-platform file compression and encryption software featuring both GTK and Qt graphical user interfaces. Highlights of PeaZip 9.9 include support for performing internal drag-and-drop extraction from the file browser/archive browser to the sidebar that shows the Bookmarks, History, and filesystem tree views. Users will…
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Linux Kernel 6.9 EOL: Mandatory Upgrade to Kernel 6.10 for Continued Support
This is your friendly reminder that the Linux 6.9 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life and that you should consider upgrading to Linux kernel 6.10 as soon as possible. “This branch is now end-of-life and everyone should move to the 6.10.y branch now – Greg Kroah-Hartman.” Linux kernel 6.9 was released…
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Firefox Nightly Enhances Usability with Improved Picture-in-Picture Mode
The latest Firefox Nightly build introduces a feature that significantly enhances its picture-in-picture (PIP) functionality — and I’m absolutely loving it! In the current stable versions of Firefox, you can pop out video content from supported websites like YouTube and Amazon Prime manually by clicking a button. This allows you to continue watching content in…
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Chrome on Linux: 3 Exciting New AI Features You Need to Know About
Google has announced a clutch of new AI-powered features have begun rolling out to users of Chrome on Windows, macOS, and —for once!— Linux. Chrome’s Vice President Parisa Tabriz unveiled the trio of AI features, which are all powered by the latest Google Gemini AI models, on The Keyword blog today, saying: – We’re making…
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Arch Linux Releases First ISO Featuring Linux Kernel 6.10: Now Available for Download
As of today, those of you who want to install Arch Linux have a new ISO image that incorporates the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies, including Linux kernel 6.10. Arch Linux 2024.08.01 is here as Arch Linux’s ISO snapshot for August 2024 and the first to be powered by the latest Linux 6.10 kernel series,…
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Nitrux 3.6 Released: Systemd-Free Experience with NVIDIA 560 Driver and Latest GSP Firmware
Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.6 as the latest stable ISO snapshot of this Debian-based, immutable, and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution. The monthly Nitrux releases continue with Nitrux 3.6, which is still powered by the Linux 6.9 kernel series in a “Liquorix” flavor for uncompromised responsiveness in interactive…
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Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 Released: New System Rescue Tool Adds Btrfs Support
Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4 system rescue live ISO tool, which helps you boot into almost any operating system when it fails to boot, has been released with new features and improvements. It’s been almost five years since the last stable Super Grub2 Disk release, but development never stopped and the new stable release is here…
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Discover ‘Gear Lever’: A Must-Have Tool for AppImage Enthusiasts
AppImages are great: a single runtime containing all of the required dependencies for the app to run, in a double-click binary you can run from anywhere on your system. And therein lies the rub. When I download an AppImage for software like Audacity, Kdenlive, etc., it’s to a folder or my desktop. To run it,…