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Niri 26.04 scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor adds long-awaited blur support, improved screencasting, faster rendering, and more.
Niri 26.04 is out today as the latest feature update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...
Stalwart 0.16 mail server introduces a rewritten WebUI, external OIDC login, JMAP-based management, and a new CLI for server administration.
Microsoft's in-house Azure Linux operating system used within Azure and for WSL and other purposes is reportedly pursuing an overhaul where it would be derived from Fedora Linux...
Following last week's Linux 7.1 sound subsystem feature pull that added bus keeper support in working toward better Apple Silicon support along with a variety of other new audio hardware support, a secondary set of sound updates were merged as we approach the end of the Linux 7.1 merge window...
With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software...
After being deemed not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday...
Merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.1 merge window are a number of enhancements to the LoongArch architecture support for that Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V...
Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...
KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7...
Greater control over performance and quality, and an all-new Themes section.
Mint is basically Linux with training wheels. If you’re ready to move on, try these three distros.
Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, has Canonical updated the site’s homepage back in 2024, but many of the pages that the distro’s developers actually use or reference on a regularly basis have remained largely untouched for the best part of a decade. Now that’s starting to change. Canonical UX designer Enzo Deng has announced that the company has “begun […] a complete redesign of the series page” for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, describing it as the start of “the journey of modernizing the Launchpad user experience”. Save for a line telling us that the company has heard that Launchpad’s interface […]
Firefox 149 quietly adds Brave’s adblock-rust engine as an experimental content-blocking prototype, disabled by default and without filter lists.
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