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Exploring Firefox’s New ‘Translate Selected Text’ Feature: A Step-by-Step Guide
A handy new translations feature is in the works for Mozilla Firefox that should help speed up translating short snippets of text from one language to another. Firefox 118 introduced a privacy-respecting web page translation feature, and Mozilla devs have continued to improve on it in subsequent releases. But sometimes you don’t need or want…
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EndeavourOS Developers Bid Farewell to ARM Branch, Seek New Maintainers
EndeavourOS Founder and Project Leader, Bryan Poerwoatmodjo, released a brief blog post making public the discontinuation of the EndeavourOS ARM branch due to the stagnant nature of upstream alterations and lack of maintainers. The EndeavourOS ARM branch was initially introduced approximately three and half years ago and initiated its first installer with the EndeavourOS Artemis…
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How Explicit Sync Could Be the Solution to NVIDIA/Wayland Issues: A Developer’s Explanation
If you’ve ever questioned why NVIDIA GPU issues on Wayland affect some Linux users but not you, the recent writings of KDE developer Xaver Hugl can shine some light. He offers an insightful blog post explaining how the explicit sync protocol will level the playing field for all. You may have noted the news about…
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Introducing Kodi 21.0 “Omega”: Major Changes Shape the Future of Open-Source Media Center
Kodi 21.0 has been announced today as a major upgrade to this popular, free, cross-platform and open-source home theater/media center software and an entertainment hub for your digital media. Following over a year after Kodi 20 “Nexus”, the Kodi 21.0 “Omega” edition is now available featuring FFmpeg 6.0 support, NFSv4 support, capability for reading and…
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Canonical Unveils Netplan 1.0: Now Featuring Simultaneous WPA2 and WPA3 Support
Canonical’s Netplan utility, which has been under development for over seven years, is now mature with the release of version 1.0. This significant release comes with a host of new features. Key highlights in Netplan 1.0 include the concurrent support of WPA2 and WPA3 security protocols, the ability to use PSK and EAP passwords at…
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Enhanced Power Efficiency on Laptops with Ubuntu 24.04
A new update to Power Profiles Daemon in Ubuntu 24.04 brings about improved power efficiency for laptop users, especially those using modern AMD devices. The update notes for the power-profiles-daemon package in Ubuntu 24.04 share that it’s now “battery-state aware”, leading some drivers to use a more power efficient state when the balanced profile is…
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Release of Qt Creator 13: Featuring Offline and Online Installers for Linux on ARM
Approximately four and a half months following the release of Qt Creator 12, we now have Qt Creator 13. This is the most recent stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and no-cost IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that simplifies the development of GUI applications in Qt. Key features of Qt Creator 13 consist of both offline…
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End of Life for Linux Kernel 6.7: Urgent Call for Users to Upgrade to 6.8
Greg Kroah-Hartman, a well-known maintainer of the Linux kernel, officially declared today that the Linux 6.7 kernel series has reached its end of life (EOL). He encouraged users to make a prompt upgrade to the most recent Linux 6.8 kernel. The Linux kernel 6.7 was launched by Linus Torvalds on January 7th, 2024. It came…
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Security Issue Causes Delay in Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Release
If you were anticipating the opportunity to participate in testing the imminent Ubuntu 24.04 release via the official beta scheduled for release this week, I must share some unfortunate news: the release has been postponed. Having said that, I suspect this isn’t entirely unexpected. The beta version of Ubuntu 24.04 was planned to be launched…
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Upcoming Fwupd Linux Firmware Updates to Utilize Zstd Compression
Richard Hughes, the developer and maintainer of Fwupd, recently made an announcement that upcoming versions of the widely used Linux firmware updater, responsible for firmware updates of a range of hardware devices in GNU/Linux distributions, will no longer utilize XZ Utils, but will switch to Zstandard (zstd) instead. The decision to move away from XZ…