Linux-Unix
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Manjaro Deepin 18.0.2 Released, Tons of Packages Updated
The Manjaro team released a stable update for Manjaro Deepin, which focuses on a lot of improvements to existing packages. Whats new in Manjaro 18.0.2? For starters, a lot of improvements have been put into VirtualBox 6.0. These improvements include (full changelog here): Additionally, updates were performed on MSM, Wine,…
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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 implemented in many of the apps, as well as a number of overall improvements. This is fresh on the heels of KDE Frameworks also being updated to 5.53.0 just a…
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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 of $1 million USD. The FSF has already received a $1 million Bitcoin donation from the Pineapple Fund earlier this year. With all this funding, the FSF will be in…
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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 on the date), and it brings a whole slew of new tools – 150, to be exact. Users will find that this brings BlackArch Linux’s total amount of tools to…
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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 30. This came as quite sad news for the Linux community, as Transfer.sh’s service made it incredibly easy to share files from your Linux PC, using only the terminal. Transfer.sh…
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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 the world of information technology has undergone massive transformation. It seems that Red Hat is driven to stay at the top of the competition as it has not stopped to…
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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 Term Support) will be receiving up to 10 years of support. This is of significant news, since most LTS releases receive only 5 years of support – although Ubuntu 12.04…
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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 have become available on average every couple of days. Manjaro Linux is an Arch-Linux based distro that has seen quite a huge surge in popularity this past year, as it…
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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 week also Linux released several updates including a significant new version of the open source text editor known as Nano 3.0, code named as “Water Flowing Underground”. GNU Nano is…
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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 by Gnome News. The release came just after the six months of the release of GNOME 3.28. GNOME 3.30 offered introduction of some major latest features, new applications and included…
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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 latest driver update features Vega 20 support, OpenGL 4.4 compatibible profile, notable improvements to the RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV Vulkan driver support, OpenGL ES 3.2 support for RadeonSI, and really…
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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 Blog. It is an expansion project for Linux Mint on Debian basis. LMDE, what does that mean? So far, Linux Mint is basically built on Ubuntu as a base and binds…
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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 release brings a subset of fixes that were deemed important to security or stability reasons, and several new features and overall enhancements. NetBSD is a free and highly portable Unix-like…
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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 – its now been reported that the Linux 4.18.6 stable kernel will be able to properly report CPU core temperatures of the new AMD Threadripper 2950X and AMD Threadripper 2990WX processors…
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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 way into the Linux 4.18 stable kernel series – though its only effecting older hardware, mostly the Intel Core 2 Duo era processors. This bug in Linux 4.18 kernel currently…
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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 Linux app support from Google – including Google’s own Chromebook Pixel series. This is quite a blow to the Chromebook Linux community, as many developers were always working on backporting…
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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 for Linux gamers – so definitely do not miss out on this update if you’re a Linux gamer using an NVIDIA card. NVIDIA released this 396.54 update specifically to address…
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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, they have just recently approved a handful of Fedora 29 features. Fedora 29 won’t be shipping until the end of October, but the Fedora 30 release schedule was confirmed to…
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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 different operating systems – and it looks like Steam has just announced a new Steam Play version that allows Linux gamers to play Windows-based games on their Linux machine, utilizing…
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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 building. The official Linux kernel has listed GCC 3.2 as the minimum version of the compiler required for kernel building, but Linux kernel 4.19 is raising that to GCC 4.6.…
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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. Among its features are a smaller ISO footprint, laptop power optimizations which should yield a 20% longer standby time, support for NVIDIA PRIME, lower memory consumption, and just overall bug…
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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. Flatpak packages GNOME in the main runtime, and is advocated for by at least 16 different Linux distributions. One of the main differences between Flatpak and similar tools like Snap…
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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, but being an unofficial hardware driver, it hasn’t exactly worked with some of the devices that can interface with the Wiimite such as the instruments for Rock Band and Guitar…
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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 – mostly, this includes several new drivers and driver support, but perhaps most interesting is the ChromeOS EC CEC driver being added. Google’s embedded controller for ChromeOS has been able to…
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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 to version R14.0.5. Because Trinity Desktop is a “traditional desktop” based on KDE 3 and focuses on function rather than a lot of special effects, its benefits are typically things…