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The Centro de Nuevas TecnologÃas de Galicia (Center for New Technologies of Galicia or CNTG), a public institution under the Department of Employment of the Galician government, has become a key reference point for advanced technology training in the region. ... Read more The post Training Galicia for the Future with LPI: the CNTG Success appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here's what's new!
Wine 11.0, the latest stable release of the open-source compatibility layer that allows Windows games and apps to run on Linux and macOS, has been released. The annual release rounds off another year of development effort, with two standout features: ntsync kernel module support for improved performance, and a fully mature WoW64 mode that now handles 16-bit applications (among other changes). All of these changes were available to sample in the bi-weekly Wine development releases. If you kept pace with those builds throughout last year, the majority of what’s new in Wine 11.0 won’t surprise you. For everyone else, let’s […]
Wine 11 is now available for download with NTSync support, Vulkan H.264 decoding, clipboard support in the Wayland driver, and more. Here’s what’s new!
Relational databases continued to dominate enterprise and cloud workloads in 2025, according to DB-Engines' popularity trends.
Version 147.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for the XDG Base Directory specification, enabling local network access restrictions for users with enhanced tracking protection (ETP) set to "Strict", and a fix that improves Firefox's rendering with GNOME on fractionally scaled displays. Firefox 147 also includes a number of security fixes, including several sandbox escape vulnerabilities.
KDE Plasma 6.5.5 is now available as the January 2026 bugfix release, delivering fixes across Wayland, KWin, Discover, and core desktop components.
KDE Plasma 6.5.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more bug fixes.
NVIDIA 580.126.09 graphics driver for Linux is now available for download with improved compatibility with recent Linux kernel versions.
To the frustration of many developers and end-users, back in 2022 Google deprecated JPEG-XL support in Chrome/Chromium and proceeded to remove the support. That decision was widely slammed and ultimately Google said they may end up reconsidering it. In November there was renewed activity and interest in restoring JPEG-XL within Google's image web browser and as of yesterday the code was merged...
ReactOS began 2026 with another "major step" towards Windows NT 6 compatibility with updating its MSVCRT implementation from Wine for the Microsoft C Runtime DLL library. That improved support for a number of Windows applications running on this open-source OS. ReactOS is taking another step-forward now with addressing a very annoying usability issue where up until now you may need to refresh the file manager for seeing folder changes...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (mariadb10.11, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, mariadb:10.5, and tar), Debian (net-snmp), Fedora (coturn, NetworkManager-l2tp, openssh, and tuxanci), Mageia (libtasn1), Oracle (buildah, cups, httpd, kernel, libpq, libsoup, libsoup3, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, openssl, and podman), SUSE (cpp-httplib, ImageMagick, libtasn1, python-cbor2, util-linux, valkey, and wget2), and Ubuntu (google-guest-agent, linux-iot, and python-urllib3).
Firefox 148 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with improved support for screen readers and other changes. Here's what else is new!
We can now continue with the Entry Object for Python. Hopefully, you have gone over Part 1 before continuing on here. Font Since we can change the colors, why not the font as well? You need to make sure that any font you use exists on the system where the Python code is being executed. On my system, I am running Ubuntu, so I have a font named ‘ubuntu’. In the example, the label will have the text ‘Example Entry’ with the font being ‘ubuntu’: Code: e1 = Entry(font='ubuntu')... https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-22-tkinter-entry-widgets-part-2.58547/
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