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For those making use of the open-source FreeRDP project for your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) needs, FreeRDP 3.23 is out today with 11 CVEs addressed in taking care of various security-related issues that have been uncovered...
Mozilla Thunderbird 148 open-source email client is now available for download with improved accessibility in various tree views and other changes. Here's what's new!
LibreOffice online is a web-based version of the LibreOffice suite that can be hosted on anybody's infrastructure. This project was put into stasis back in 2022, a move marked by some tension with Collabora, a major LibreOffice developer that has its own online offering. Now, the Document Foundation has announced a new effort to breathe life into this project. We plan to reopen the repository for LibreOffice Online at The Document Foundation for contributions, but provide warnings about the state of the repository until TDF's team agrees that it's safe and usable – while at the same time encourage the community to join in with code, technologies and other contributions that can be used to move forward. Meanwhile, this post from Michael Meeks suggests that the tension around online versions of LibreOffice has not abated.
Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that embeds a pill-shaped media controller into your desktop panel. It shows album art, artist name and track title alongside an animated waveform visualiser. Unashamedly blingy, but there’s nothing wrong in that. The extension received an update today, which seem a good hook to actually take this off my “to write about” list. V20 adds a compact mode to hide all text; player filtering to add/ignore specific apps; and the option to set fallback album art for players/streams that don’t emit any. Dynamic Music Pill works with any MPRIS-compatible media player. That […]
The Document Foundation has revived LibreOffice Online, resuming development after formally reversing its 2022 decision to freeze the project.
Lutris 0.5.21 introduces support for Valve’s Sniper runtime, adds ShadPS4 and Xenia runners, and improves GPU detection on Linux systems.
It's quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs) for confidential computing...
Lutris 0.5.21 is now available as the latest version of this open-source Linux game manager. With Lutris 0.5.21 comes some new runners for executing games in different environments...
Wine 11.3 brings Mono 11.0, VKD3D 1.19, better DirectSound, and 30 bug fixes to improve how Windows apps and games run on Linux.
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COSMIC Desktop 1.0.8 brings improvements to the file manager, updates to the terminal, fixes for the Wi-Fi dialog, and better overall stability.
Container virtualization is one of the major technologies behind modern software architectures. While the concept of container virtualization is rather old, new tools extend the pure virtualization components with numerous features that facilitate the deployment of containerized software. Docker is ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #06: Container Basics appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Clonezilla Live 3.3.1 disk cloning/imaging tool is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.18.9, Partclone 0.3.45, and other changes. Here's what's new!
Mozilla Thunderbird 148, an open-source email client, is out with PKCE authentication for Yahoo and AOL and improved Exchange support.
Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 26.02 introduces a new W-a audio menu, a fully rewritten Cava Colorizer module, fixes for screen recording, and more.
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