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KDE Frameworks 6.3 Released with Various UI Improvements and Bug Fixes

KDE Frameworks 6.3 is here to improve the rendering of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images on screens that use a fractional scale factor, which should lead to reduced blurriness, improves QtQuick- and QtWidgets-based apps by visually overhauling the small in-window dialogs and command bars respectively.

LibreOffice 24.2.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 72 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 24.2.4 is here a little over a month after the LibreOffice 24.2.3 update to fix more of those pesky bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in the latest LibreOffice 24.2 series, improving the overall stability and reliability of the office suite.

VLC 3.0.21 Adds New AMD VQ Enhancer Filter, Improves Opus Ambisonic Support

Coming a little over seven months after VLC 3.0.20, the VLC 3.0.21 release is here to add a new AMD VQ Enhancer filter, a D3D11 option to use NVIDIA TrueHDR for generating HDR content from SDR sources, Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPUs, and support for HTTP content range handling according to RFC 9110.

Immutable Distro blendOS 4 Officially Released, Now Fully Declarative

Arriving almost a year after blendOS 3, the new release makes the Arch Linux-based distro fully declarative. This means that users can now install any packages, kernels, or drivers from both Arch Linux’s repositories and AUR (Arch User Repository) while using pre-configured desktop environments.

Security-Oriented Distro Parrot OS 6.1 Improves Raspberry Pi 5 Support

Coming more than four months after Parrot OS 6.0, the Parrot OS 6.1 release is still powered by the Linux 6.5 kernel series for the 64-bit (x86_64) generic images, as well as Linux 6.6 LTS for the Raspberry Pi image, which has been updated once again to improve support for the latest Raspberry Pi 5 board.

Kali Linux 2024.2 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with GNOME 46, New Tools

Kali Linux 2024.2 is here more than three months after Kali Linux 2024.1 and completes the prevent the t64 transition to protect the system against the Year 2038 issue, upgrades the GNOME desktop offering to the latest GNOME 46 release, and improves Kali-Undercover and HiDPI modes in the default Xfce desktop.

Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” to Reach End of Life on July 11th, 2024

Dubbed by Canonical as the “Mantic Minotaur”, Ubuntu 23.10 was released last year on October 20th, 2023, featuring the GNOME 45 desktop environment and powered by the Linux 6.5 kernel series.

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Arti 1.2.4 is released: onion services development, security fixes

This release continues development on onion services, and on the planned RPC system, which will allow Arti to be managed and controlled programmatically.

Internet Society

The Wellness Side of the Run the Internet Challenge

Our mission has never been more challenging as we advocate for an open, secure Internet for all. Today much is at stake—we must continue to connect the world by bringing the Internet to everyone, everywhere, while defending it from growing threats. Our collective goal is to remain focused on growing, maintaining, and protecting a healthy Internet because it will get bigger and stronger when we all do our part. 

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How To Connect Google Drive Storage on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you setup integration of Google Drive storage on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". The expected result is to enable access in the file manager, upload and download (read and write) to your Gmail account's online storage. This means Files will show youremail at gmail dot com as a new drive and you will be able to copy and paste write and delete files and folder remotely to it. 

How To Adjust Cursor Size on Ubuntu GNOME

This tutorial will help you change mouse cursor size on any computer with GNOME desktop environment by the example Ubuntu GNU/Linux. It is useful for many cases including, among them, teaching purposes on online streaming or live presentation using a projector device and to help older people or those with vision issues. We also use this on our online course in Indonesia. We wish this will really help you!

A Complete Guide to Ubuntu 24.04 Default Apps and Their Purposes

This is a listing of preinstalled applications of Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" from A to Z with brief explanations of their purposes. With this article, you will begin to know that your Ubuntu has many default apps from Additional Drivers to Videos and you will learn in general about what you can do with them in your computing. And we also included some useful tutorials related to productivity tools like LibreOffice so you can learn more. Now let's read and we wish you the best!

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SpacemiT Muse Pi: A RISC-V SBC Featuring the SpacemiT M1 SoC

The SpacemiT Muse Pi is a development board that leverages the cutting-edge RISC-V architecture. It is powered by the SpacemiT M1, an Octa-core System-on-Chip, which is designed to support multiple serial peripherals and a range of wireless communication standards.

Milk-V Meles RISC-V Single Board Computer with 8GB RAM, 128GB eMMC – Available for $80.00

The Milk-V Meles, a credit card-sized single-board computer, leverages the power of the TH1520 System-on-Chip, a RISC-V based platform. It’s packed with features like Gigabit Ethernet, dual camera support, and dual display capabilities, making it suitable for hobbyists and makers.

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Immutable Distro blendOS 4 Officially Released, Now Fully Declarative
blendOS developer Rudra Saraswat today announced the general availability of blendOS 4 as another major update to this Arch Linux-based immutable Linux distribution with some unique features.
KDE Frameworks 6.3 Released with Various UI Improvements and Bug Fixes
The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.3 as another update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt that provide a wide range of commonly needed functionality for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE applications.
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LibreOffice 24.2.4 office suite is now available for download with 72 bug fixes for the latest LibreOffice 24.2 series.
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3 Years Ago [original]
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Debian 13 Moves to tmpfs for /tmp Directory
Debian 13 introduces tmpfs for /tmp and timed cleanup for /var/tmp, aligning with standard practices in the upcoming Trixie release
VLC 3.0.21 Adds New AMD VQ Enhancer Filter, Improves Opus Ambisonic Support
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Google announces major change for Android users
Security-Oriented Distro Parrot OS 6.1 Improves Raspberry Pi 5 Support
Parrot Security released today Parrot OS 6.1 as the latest stable version of their Debian-based security-oriented distro for ethical hacking and penetration testing with updated tools and improvements.
Neovim on Fedora
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DuckDB Hits Major Milestone with 1.0 Release
DuckDB 1.0, a SQL OLAP database management system,
Switcheroo – utility to convert and manipulate images
Switcheroo is a Rust-based utility designed to give you a simple, quick, and easy-to-use tool to convert and manipulate your images
Whonix on Qubes: The Most Secure Way to Use Tor
Qubes OS is widely regarded as one of the most secure Open Source operating systems for workstations and laptops
5 Best Free and Open Source GUI Image Compression Tools
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Can You Use Raspberry Pi 5 as a Desktop Computer?
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Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools’ use of 365 Education suite
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