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Transition from Cheese to Snapshot: The New Webcam App in Ubuntu 24.04
Cheese (left) and Snapshot (right) in action Ubuntu 24.04 is switching its default webcam app from Cheese to Snapshot, a modern GTK4/libadwaita camera tool that’s part of the GNOME Core Apps set. Cheese has been part of Ubuntu’s default software lineup since 2010, having first been added in the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix owing to…
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Tails 6.1 Release: A Solution to RFDS Intel CPU Vulnerabilities and Additional Bug Fixes
The amnesic incognito live system, Tails 6.1, a portable operating system providing protection against surveillance and censorship is now ready for download. This represents the first update to the latest Tails 6.0 series. Tails 6.1 arrives one month following Tails 6.0, built on the most recent Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series, and delivers…
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Blender 4.1 Officially Launches: Notable Performance Enhancements and Quality-of-life Upgrades
The Blender Foundation has launched Blender 4.1, an update to their free, open-source, 3D graphics software that’s compatible with GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows. This version comes more than four months after Blender 4.0 , bringing both quality-of-life upgrades and performance boosts for everyone, but particularly for modelers and animators. Blender 4.1 has several notable features,…
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The Weekly Digest: A Roundup of 9to5Linux Events For March 24th, 2024
The 180th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 24th, 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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Canonical Prolongs LTS Support to an Impressive 12 Years
Ubuntu’s long-term support releases just got even longer, with Canonical today announcing they are eligible for up to 12 years of security coverage from initial release. As you know, every Ubuntu LTS release receives 5 years of standard security (and select application) updates out of the gate. This covers packages in the ‘main’ Ubuntu repo.…
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Revolutionizing Gaming: The Tiny Tweak in Ubuntu 24.04
Gamers can look forward to more epic top-tier titles working out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which is due for release in late April. Following a user suggestion, Ubuntu developers have greatly increased the distro’s virtual memory mapping limit. This minor adjustment should have a significant impact on gaming as titles previously reported to crash or…
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Linus Torvalds Unveils the First Release Candidate for Linux Kernel 6.9
Linux kernel development further advances with the next big series, Linux 6.9. Today, Linus Torvalds declared the arrival of the initial Release Candidate (RC) milestone for public examination. Yes, exactly two weeks have passed since Linux 6.8 came out, and the merge window for Linux kernel 6.9 is now shut. Hence, it’s time for the…
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Ubuntu 24.04: The Revamp of ‘App Center’ with a New Icon
App Center, the Flutter-based substitution for the Ubuntu Software application, has seen a revamped application icon in the most recent Ubuntu 24.04 daily builds. The App Center has undergone more than one icon alteration in the past months. A few months ago, an updated version of the software installation frontend was released and it accidentally…
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Nova: Red Hat’s New Rust-Based GSP-Only Driver for NVIDIA GPUs – Latest Announcement
Red Hat announced earlier this week that the company has begun work on a new open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust, referred to as Nova. The Nova graphics driver is planed to be the successor to the Nouveau open-source driver for GSP-firmware-based NVIDIA graphics cards. It’s a GSP (GPU System Processor) exclusive…
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Guide to Restoring Ubuntu’s Iconic Login Sound
If you only started using Ubuntu sometime after 2012 then you have my apologies: this article won’t make a whole lot of sense. But if your roots with the distro reach back farther then the following curio might appeal (though that ‘might’ is, I accept, doing a lot of lifting). When I reported on the…