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MX Linux 25.1 Beta Brings Back Dual-Init Support, Based on Debian 13.3
MX Linux 25.1 is now available for public beta testing based on the Debian 13.3 release and powered by Linux kernel 6.12.63 LTS.
Zorin OS 18 Hits 2 Million Downloads as Windows Users Drive Growth
Zorin OS 18 has surpassed 2 million downloads in under three months, with more than three-quarters coming from former Windows users.
Microsoft Open-Sources XAML Studio
After 8 years, Microsoft's tool for designing Windows apps is now open source.
auto-cpufreq 3.0 Arrives for Linux with Better Battery Handling and CPU Turbo Control
New release gives Linux laptop users more control over CPU performance while fixing battery detection issues.
GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default
GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...
[$] Asciinema: making movies at the command-line
In open-source circles there are many situations, such as bug reports, demos, and tutorials, when one might want to provide a play-by-play of a session in one's terminal. The asciinema project provides a set of tools to do just that. Its tools let users record, edit, and share terminal sessions in a text-based format that has quite a few advantages compared to making and sharing videos of terminal sessions. For example, it is easy to use, offers the ability to search text from recorded sessions, and allows users to copy and paste directly from the recording.
Linux Mint 22.3 has arrived, complete with Cinnamon 6.6
Another great update for the Ubuntu Linux spinoff.
BTW, Arch Users! Pacman Might Be Getting a Rust Replacement
The Rust-based ALPM project is looking suspiciously like Pacman's replacement.
Parrot 7.1 Through 7.3 Planned for 2026 as Focus Moves to AI Security
Parrot Linux plans versions 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 throughout 2026, shifting its security research toward AI systems and real-world attack surfaces.
Firefox 147 Arrives with XDG Support on Linux, Auto-PiP + More
Firefox 147 released with XDG directory support ending a 20-year Linux bug, auto Picture-in-Picture, better AMD video performance, and new web standards.
Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January...
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and sogo), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, libpng, libsodium, mariadb10.11, musescore, nginx, python-pdfminer, python-urllib3, python3.12, seamonkey, wasmedge, and wget2), Mageia (curl, libpcap, sodium, wget2, and zlib), Slackware (lcms2), SUSE (chromedriver, chromium, noopenh264, coredns, curl, dcmtk, fontforge, gdk-pixbuf-loader-libheif, gimp, kernel, libheif, libpng16, libsoup-2_4-1, libvirt, mariadb, php8, poppler, python-filelock, python-tornado6, python311-aiohttp, qemu, sssd, and traefik), and Ubuntu (libheif, libtasn1-6, linux-azure-nvidia, linux-kvm, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-realtime, and php7.2, php7.4, php8.1, php8.3, php8.4).
Firefox 147 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 147 enables WebGPU on Apple Silicon Macs and improves hardware-decoded video playback on supported AMD GPUs.
Firefox 147 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Firefox 147 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for Freedesktop.org's XDG Base Directory Specification and other changes.