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Myrlyn 1.0 was released today as the package manager GUI developed by SUSE engineers and started out just over one year ago during a SUSE Hack Week event as a SUSE/Qt package manager program not dependent upon YaST or Ruby...
For those organizations on the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) bandwagon for increasing transparency around software components with license compliance, vulnerability management, and securing the software supply chain, proposed patches to the Linux kernel would introduce an SPDX SBOM Generation Tool...
Linus has released 6.19-rc6 for testing. "So we finally ended up with a slightly bigger rc than usual for this stage in the release cycle, but it's not _that_ big, and things still seem quite stable and civilized."
Catch up on the latest Linux news: EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo, Plasma 6.6 Beta, GNOME 49.3, Wine 11, Firefox 147, Debian to remove GTK2, Zorin OS hits 2M downloads, Let’s Encrypt launches IP address certificates, and more.
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 18th, 2026, brings news about Firefox 147, Wine 11, KDE Plasma 6.6, GNOME 49.3, GRUB 2.14, Ubuntu 25.04 EOL, NVIDIA 580.126.09, Thunderbird 147, Wireshark 4.6.3, Tails 7.4, EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo, GNOME 50 Alpha, MX Linux 25.1 Beta, PipeWire 1.4.10, Amarok 3.3.2, and more.
The lack of Adobe creative software on Linux is an oft-mentioned drawback by those who would use Linux full-time, but can’t wean themselves off a software that forms part of their professional or creative workflow. You can already run Photoshop on Linux through Wine if you are willing to faff about. Older versions like Photoshop CS4 work well, while the latest ‘Creative Cloud’ versions can be installed too – albeit with a catch: you need to install Photoshop on Windows or virtual machine first, then copy the files over to your Linux Wine prefix. And then hope the best. Using […]
Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel in working toward the stable Linux 6.19 kernel release likely on 8 February...
When “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” becomes a Linux desktop environment.
A dock is a dock, right? A line of icon shortcuts for quick access to your apps. The Multi-Column Dock extension for GNOME 45-47 takes that simple idea, but adds organisational features. A GitHub description describes this as: “a customizable multi-column dock for GNOME Shell Keep your apps neatly organized with grouping, smooth scrolling, easy drag-and-drop reordering, auto-hide, and full multi-monitor support.” The main draw is that you can group related applications together in the dock, give each grouping a label and background colour and then collapse or expand them on the fly. If you’ve often use a bunch of […]
Get ready for a Linux release that will change what you thought you knew about stability and up-to-date software.
The jQuery team has released version 4.0, introducing breaking changes, modern browser support, and long-planned cleanups.
Smart home SOS.
COSMIC takes a lot of cues from GNOME, but it lacks the stability needed for a daily workflow. After a week, I’m headed back to my old Linux setup
ReactOS as the long-in-development "open-source Windows" project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very annoying usability issue, for this third week of the year there is another big change landing: a significant improvement in networking performance on ReactOS...
Ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today are two USB fixes for Apple M1 / M2 Macs running the mainline kernel. These Apple USB fixes are also marked for back-porting to the stable Linux kernel series...
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