An option pick a default terminal is to GNOME Settings, as the image above, teased by developer Ignacy Kuchciński last week, shows. Those of you who don’t use the command line often enough to care about what terminal is set as your system default, may be surprised to hear you can’t currently change it via a GUI. If you go to Settings > Apps > Default Apps you can pick your preferred web browser, email client, imager viewer and others apps, but you can’t set a terminal emulator as your system default. For developers, the missing option can be annoying. […]
For those in pursuit of a graphical Git client for GNOME or the Linux desktop at large, the GTK4-powered Gitte continues advancing rather well and out this week is its v0.10 release...
GNU Automake’s first update in 15 months adds an optional archive-format feature and fixes a 14-year-old distribution bug. The post First GNU Automake in 15 Months Adds New ‘Make Dist’ Feature appeared first on FOSS Force.
Two new apps are coming to Linux Mint later this year: a new calendar and eBook reader. A redesigned document hub will also be included to make it easier to find and manage files on your device. The new apps are part of the distro-agnostic XApp Project family (which, incidentally, now has a shiny new website dressed in the Claude design aesthetic blanketing half the web these days). Clockenstien is Mint’s new Calendar app Clockenstein is Linux Mint’s new calendar app but – before anyone scream in horror at the terrible name, the user-facing label is simple Calendar. It replaces […]
All of the videos from the EuroPython 2026 conference, held in Kraków from July 13 through July 19, are now online along with a recap of the event from conference organizers.
Kernel developers do a lot of kernel builds. Since the kernel is not a small program, those builds can take a fair amount of time, even on a fast machine. The kernel also has a complex build system; it is probably fair to say that few developers truly understand it, and fewer still are willing to try to improve it. Lorenzo Stoakes, armed with LLM-based assistance, decided to give it a try, though, and has managed to reduce the time it takes to build a kernel — and not by a small amount.
Since being merged back during the Linux 7.2 cycle, the Cache Aware Scheduling code continues seeing more fixes as users test out this scheduling enhancement on different processors and system configurations...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.5 and 6.18.51 stable kernels. There are more than 550 patches in each with fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
openSUSE releases the Agama 24 web-based installer for Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS with improvements across networking, theming, storage, language, and other components.
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