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KDE Plasma 6.1.2 Released: Enhanced Overview Effect and Critical Bug Fixes
The KDE Project announced today the release of KDE Plasma 6.1.2, the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, featuring additional bug fixes and minor enhancements. KDE Plasma 6.1.2 arrives just a week after KDE Plasma 6.1.1, improving the Overview effect by making window title labels more readable and adding bell…
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Miracle-WM 0.3 Released: Enhanced Visuals, Bug Fixes, and Improved i3 IPC Support
If you’re yet to try Miracle-WM, a tiling window manager made for the Mir Wayland compositor, the latest version would be a stellar place to start. Created by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek (in his free time; it’s not an official Canonical project), miracle-wm aims to pair the efficiency tiling window managers such as i3 and…
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Explore the New Features: Linux Mint 22 Beta Released with Cinnamon 6.2 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Base
The Linux Mint team has released today the beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint 22 operating system series, which can be downloaded and tested right now. Linux Mint 22 is codenamed “Wilma” and it’s planned for release in late July 2024. The beta version is here to give us an early glimpse at the…
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Linux Mint 22 Beta: Now Available for Download!
And we’re off – the Linux Mint 22 beta release is now available to download. The beta of Linux Mint 22 ‘Wilma’ arrives ahead of an expected stable release in late July or possibly early August, depending on how many bugs, issues, and quirks are found and fixed during the formal beta testing period. Linux…
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New EndeavourOS Release Features KDE Plasma 6.1 and Restores ARM Support
The EndeavourOS team announced today the release and general availability of EndeavourOS “Endeavour” the latest stable snapshot of this Arch Linux-based distro that features the KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment. Powered by Linux kernel 6.9, the new EndeavourOS release ships with the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment series, along with updated components…
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Gradience Theming App Shuts Down: Github Page Archived
Sad news for fans of Gradience, the 3rd-party tool to customise the look of GTK4/libadwaita apps, as this weekend (June 29, 2024) the Github project page was made read-only and archived. News is sure to drain the colour from those who avidly use this tool, as it has proven popular with those seeing to personalise…
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Debian 12.6 “Bookworm” Launches: Addressing 162 Bugs and Enhancing Security with 84 Updates
The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.6 as the fifth ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series. Debian 12.6 is here four and a half months after Debian 12.5 as the fifth point release of Debian Bookworm, because Debian 12.3 was never released, and…
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App Not Working on Ubuntu 24.04? An AppArmor Update Could Be the Solution
If you’ve been experiencing issues getting some apps to run or work properly in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS it may be down to the distro using AppArmor to restrict the creation of user namespaces. This change (which I touched on in my article look at what’s new in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) is there to bolster security.…
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Raspberry Pi 5 M.2 HAT+ Review: Seamless Performance Out of the Box
About six weeks ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the official M.2 HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5 allowing us to finally have an internal disk drive for bigger storage capacity and a faster computing experience. The official M.2 HAT is called M.2 HAT+ promising up to 500 MB/s data transfer to and from NVMe…
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Tiling Shell’s Newest Update Introduces Blur Effect and Edge Tiling Features
Does it seem like I’m a bit obsessed with Tiling Shell, the super-charged window snapping extension for GNOME Shell, which works beautifully on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and above? It might do since this is my 3rd article about the extension in less than a fortnight! But the updates and new features are coming thick and…