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Shotcut 26.9 open-source video editor is now available for download with Automatic Ducking for audio, volume control and audio level meter/indicator for timeline track headers, and more.
Linux Mint is great for beginners—until it isn't.
OpenShot 4.0.1 upgrades the Razor tool, improves timeline navigation and editing responsiveness, adds official Snap support, and fixes numerous bugs.
People often say Linux Mint looks dated, but the Cinnamon desktop is highly customisable – something a new transformation pack shows to eye-catching effect. Silent Horizon is a Linux Mint makeover pack made up of desklets, panel applets, wallpaper, Plank dock theme and minor Cinnamon layout tweaks. The work of ~PersianVibeCoder, it aims to create a “calm, minimal desktop with little details that make it feel alive”. It has little “details” that do add to the dynamism – albeit at the cost of performance on lower spec devices (as I’ll come to in a moment). Take the weather and system […]
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Sparky 2026.09, Systemd 262, COSMIC Desktop 1.9, Kitty 0.49, Samba 4.25, Ubuntu kernels move to weekly releases, and more.
The 7.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "I don't think there's any real pattern to it other than 'big'. But nothing looks particularly alarming, I think that despite the diffstat it's just the same old, same old."
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 27th, 2026, brings news about COSMIC 1.9, VLC 3.0.24, GNU Wget 2.3, Flatpak 1.18.3, Giada 1.6, NVIDIA 595.104.02, Firefox 156.0.1, NTFS-3G 2026.9.18, Wireshark 4.6.9, fwupd 2.1.8, Mir 2.30, Shelly 3.1.5, PeaZip 11.3, GNOME 50.5, Budgie 10.10.3, SparkyLinux 2026.09, KeePassXC 2.8 beta, OBS Studio 33 beta, and more.
Modern tools can make the Linux terminal prettier, faster, and smarter.
Klassik is a modern KDE Plasma 6 project recreating the look and feel of KDE 3 while supporting Wayland and fractional scaling.
Make a small compromise here, and a tiny compromise there, and pretty soon you've backed yourself into a huge compromised corner. The post We Paid an Agency to Lock Us Into a Platform. Then We Left. appeared first on FOSS Force.
In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...
Budgie 10.10.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the Wayland-only Budgie 10.10 desktop environment series with various improvements, new features, and the usual bug fixes.
Budgie Desktop 10.10.3 adds app favorites, free desktop icon placement, primary monitor selection, and a rewritten Keyboard Layout applet.
The Linux-based mobile operating system postmarketOS has officially changed its name to Nura after a year-and-a-half selection process.
Noctalia 5.2 introduces a redesigned window switcher, calendar event reminders, improved screenshot tools, sound themes, and more.
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