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KDE Applications Updated to 18.12, Over 140 Bugfixes
KDE has just announced the release of KDE Applications 18.12, which is a massive update. Over 140 bugfixes have been…
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Free Software Foundation Received 1 Million USD from Handshake
The Free Software Foundation just received a series of earmarked charitable donations from Handshake. The donations amount to a total…
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BlackArch Linux Updated Is Over 10GB, but Full of New Tools
The growingly popular Arch-Linux based BlackArch Linux has just been updated to version 2018.12.01 (yes, they are numbering releases based…
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Transfer.Sh Not Going Down After All
The highly popular Linux shell-based file sharing website, Transfer.sh, announced some time ago it would be shutting down on November…
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta Offers Stratis and Yum 4 with Efficient Linux Networking
It has been four years since Red Hat released its Enterprise Linux 7 that redefined the operating system. Since then…
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Extended to 10-Year Support as Shuttleworth Predicts 2019 IPO
At the latest OpenStack Summit, the founder and CEO of Canonical Inc / Ubuntu mentioned that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Long…
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Manjaro 18 Nearly Here as Lots of Testing Updates Pushed This Week
The Manjaro Linux developers have been hard at work these past couple weeks, as a steady stream of testing updates…
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GNU Nano 3.0 claims to read files 70% better with improved ASCII text handling
The Linux landscape is undergoing changes and developments constantly. Fresh distro releases, updates, kernels and apps keep appearing continuously. This…
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GNOME 3.32 Scheduled to be Released Early Next Year with Expected Wayland Improvements and UI and UX-related changes
The 35th stable update for the free and open-sourced GNOME 3.30 desktop environment was released on 5th September, as announced…
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Mesa 18.2 Brings Radeon EQAA Anti-Aliasing, Improved SteamVR Support, and Tons of Bug Fixes
The Mesa 18.2 driver for Linux has finally been released today after a few minor setbacks occurring in August. This…
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Linux Mint Releases LMDE 3 ‘Cindy’ Cinnamon with Security and Bug Fixes
Linux Mint’s developer community has released the LMDE 3 “Cindy” Cinnamon on August 31, 2018, according to the Linux Mint…
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NetBSD 7.2 Branch Update Release Brings USB 3.0 and Raspberry Pi 3 Support
The NetBSD Project has released NetBSD 7.2, which is the second feature update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. This…
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Incorrect AMD Threadripper Temperatures on Linux 4.18 to be Fixed Soon
As we near the release of the Linux 4.18.6 stable kernel, more goodies just keep coming for Linux users –…
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Bug in Linux 4.18 Kernel Causes CPU Stall and System Freezes on Older Hardware
If ever you needed a good reason to upgrade your old CPU, it seems a “show-stopping” bug has found its…
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Big List of Most Popular Chromebook Brands Will Not Receive Linux Support Due to 3.14 Kernel
It turns out that unfortunately a lot of Chromebooks with the Linux 3.14 kernel aren’t going to be getting any…
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NVIDIA 396.54 Linux Drivers Show Up to 20% Performance Increase After Memory Leak Fix
While just yesterday NVIDIA released their 396.54 Linux driver update which some may overlook, its actually a significant performance update…
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Fedora 29 FESCO Approval Highlights from This Week, and Fedora 30 Release Schedule Confirmed
The members of the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee have not only recently approved the Fedora 30 release schedule proposal,…
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Valve Releases New Steam Play Proton Project to Play Native Windows Games on Linux
A few days ago we speculated how code discovered in the Steam Play Git could refer to game compatibility across…
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Linux 4.19 Kernel Now Requires GCC 4.6 to Build, Due to Compiling Failures on Older Architecture
For Linux developers working on the kernel, the to-be-released Linux 4.19 kernel raises the GCC minimum version required for kernel…
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Deepin 15.7 Released With Fixes for Memory Leakage, Chrome and Firefox Updates
The Debian-based Deepin Linux distro has just been updated to Deepin 15.7, which falls under the project’s new versioning scheme.…
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Flatpak 1.0 Released, Could Be the Best Decentralized Linux App Sandboxing Tool
The Linux app sandboxing tool Flatpak 1.0 (previously known as XDG-App) has been released as their new stable release series.…
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Updated HID Drivers in Linux 4.19 Kernel Support Wiimote Instruments for Rock Band and Guitar Hero
It would appear that a “Wiimote” driver has existed in the Linux kernel for the Nintendo Wii remote since 2011,…
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Latest Linux 4.19 Code Merge Introduces ChromeOS EC CEC Drivers and Cirrus Logic Detection
Some interesting code updates were just recently put into the Linux 4.19 kernel merge window regarding “multi-function device” capabilities –…
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Trinity Desktop R14.0.5 Brings Modern Compiler Support and Security Fixes
Trinity Desktop, the Linux desktop environment which is forked from KDE 3, has just released an update bringing Trinity Desktop…
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Open-Source AMDVLK Update Released, Introduces New Dump Compiler and Witcher 3 Fix
Just shortly after releasing the new AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 driver package for Linux, AMD pushed out the latest update to the…
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