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A Linux version of the Lossless Scaling Frame Generation utility: Release of Parrot 6.4: The OpenCut project: PHP Moves to GPL-Compatible BSD-3 License: Audacious 4.5: Development of KDE Plasma Bigscreen has resumed: Release of Hyprland 0.50: Linux adoption on the rise: Cozystack 0.33 Released: Blender 4.5: Forgejo 12.0: Intel has stopped developing Clear Linux: KDE switched to rendering windows w...

This month: How-To : Learn About, Trading Up To Linux and Latex Graphics : Inkscape Review : Ubuntu Cinnamon & Ubuntu MATE 25.04 Ubuntu Games - Demon Lord Reincarnation plus: News, Command and Conquer, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

Wayland 1.24 is available: Windows Server update breaking Samba compatibility: Release of OBS Studio 31.1: Ardour moving to a fork of YTK: Amarok 3.3 Released: Release of miracle-wm 0.6: Suricata 8.0 now available: KWin developer declares alternative X Servers undesirable in KDE: Apache http server 2.4.64 releases: Alt Linux Virtualization 11.0 distribution: Alt Linux Virtualization 11.0 distribut...

Cryptsetup 2.8: Ubuntu to ship intel-compute-runtime without Spectre protection that reduces performance by 20%: Third preview release of Pidgin 3.0 messenger: Steam Client for Linux Updated: Release of boot firmware CoreBoot 25.06, Libreboot 25.06 and Canoeboot 25.06: GNOME 49 changes: Perl 5.42 is available: Work on the Copyleft-next license has resumed: Angie 1.10.0 released: Multipass 1.16 Rel...

IceWM 3.8.0 Released: Release of GIMP 3.1.2: Fedora to Drop 32-Bit x86 Support: New version nginx 1.29.0: OpenWrt 24.10.2: PNG v3 format has been published: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7: Release of mmc-utils 1.0: Canonical made money: Cosmoe GUI library using Wayland and BeOS style API: Linus Torvalds to Remove Bcachefs from Linux Kernel 6.17: KDE Features: Wayback, a Wayland composite server for...

Kali Linux 2025.2 Released: Securonis Linux 3.0: KiCad developers criticize Wayland and recommend using X11: Arch Linux Moves to 64-Bit Wine Builds: Qt Creator 17: ONLYOFFICE 9.0: Amazon’s Open 3D Engine Released: Release of MODICIA OS: libxml2 maintainer drops special treatment for vulnerability fixes XLibre 25.0 Release, X.Org Server Fork: KDE plans to end X11 session support: Bill Gates,...

This month: How-To : Learn About, Trading Up To Linux and Latex Graphics : Inkscape Review : Lubuntu and Xubuntu 25.04 My Opinion - AppImage Ubports Touch - OTA-9 Ubuntu Games - Starsector plus: News, Command and Conquer, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

Sway User Environment 1.11: New LTS branch of MariaDB 11.8: FreeBSD 14.3 Released: Ubuntu Drops X11 Session Support in GNOME: GNOME to Increase Dependence on systemd: ROSA Fresh Server 13.0: Rocky Linux 10.0 Released: Warzone 2100 in your browser: Wayland-Protocols 1.45: Development of jemalloc has been discontinued: KDE has added support for xdg-pip: Nitrux Project moves to Hyprland: Danish gover...

Release of pfSense CE 2.8.0: GNOME OS distribution enters testing on real hardware: Oracle Linux 9.6 Released: Release of RawTherapee 5.12: IGL 1.1 Graphics Library Released: Release of /e/OS 3.0: Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Focal: PeerTube 7.2 has been released: Rocky Linux 9.6 released: SeaMonkey 2.53.21: Canonical to End Bazaar Support on Launchpad: Release of wxWidgets 3.3.0: Redox OS Adds Support for...

Linux kernel 6.15 released: Release of Armbian 25.5 and DietPi 9.13: Release of Luanti 5.12.0: AlmaLinux 10.0: Thunderbird 139.0: KaOS 2025.05: openSUSE alternative installer Agama 15: NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Release 575.57.08: Release of Alpine Linux 3.22: Radeon Linux Drivers: Release of VeraCrypt 1.26.24: CentOS Repositories and RHEL 10 Test Builds for RISC-V Published: Release of dpScreenOCR...

APT Package Manager 3.1.0: Debian 13 Enters Hard Freeze Before Release: Ubuntu 25.10 to replace more apps: Release of the lsFusion 6.0: AlmaLinux 9.6: FreeBSD and Rust: CentOS and Rocky Linux RISC-V ventures: AerynOS distribution decisions: Linux Mint project created libAdapta: Ubuntu 25.10 switches to Chrony by default: Ubuntu Sway Remix 25.04 Released: ALT Linux creates Tuner for GNOME: Rust Cor...

This month: How-To : Learn About, Trading Up To Linux and Latex Graphics : Inkscape Review : Kubuntu 25.04 and Vivaldi browser [NEW!] Bodhi Corner Ubuntu Games - Gravity Circuit plus: News, Command and Conquer, My Opinion, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

Shotcut 25.05 Released: Planka Project Switches to Non-Free License: Oracle Releases New Free Solaris 11.4 CBE Edition: Nobara 42 is released: The Tor Project has introduced Oniux: honix 17.3 is released: Grml 2025.05 Released: KDE news: Debian 12.11 Released Release of GNU Taler 1.0: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust https://soundcloud....

BleachBit 5.0.0 Released: New versions of s6-rc: Open WebUI Switches to Restrictive License: GNOME SDK Adds Support for Blueprint Interface Language: Official Fedora, AlmaLinux, and Arch Linux builds for WSL released: Ubuntu 25.10 and sudo: Release of Puzzle 2502: Mesa 25.1 Released: Release of Clonezilla Live 3.2.1: Release of Lazarus 4.0: New version of Raspberry Pi OS: KDE reworks new file crea...

qBittorrent 5.1 Released: 4MLinux 48.0 released: Deluge 2.2 Released: The Genode Project has released OS Sculpt 25.04: openSUSE Leap 16 Beta Released: DragonFly BSD 6.4.1 Released: Nival interactive has published the code for Blitzkrieg: Redis Returns to Open Source License: KDE Stops Forming LTS Releases: Intel Opens iaprof: Debian Project Launches Public Vote on AI Model Openness Criteria: Linux...

Scribus 1.6.4 Update: Bastille 0.14 Released: Mox Mail Server 0.0.15 is now available: Release of CRUX 3.8: Monado 25.0.0 Released: OpenMandriva Lx 6.0: Release of nginx 1.28.0: QEMU 10.0.0 Released: Release of MyLibrary 4.0: Debian Project Leader Election Results Revealed: Microsoft up to their old tricks: KDE Improves Wayland Support and Makes UI Changes: MinC: The seventh alpha release of COSMI...

postmarketOS adds COSMIC Desktop Environment Support: MX Linux 23.6 Released: OpenWrt 24.10.1 released: qutebrowser 3.5.0: Manjaro Linux 25.0 Released: Fedora Linux 42 released: Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8: Release of TrueNAS 25.04: Linux version of OCCT hardware stress testing tool released: Release of Deepin 23.1: Ubuntu 25.04 is available: LXQt 2.2.0 Desktop Environment Released: NTP...

This month marks 18 years of Full Circle Magazine! This month: How-To : Learn About, Trading Up To Linux and Latex How-To Birthday Bonus : Python Graphics : Inkscape Review : Ubuntu 25.04 [NEW!] Bodhi Corner UbPorts Touch Ubuntu Games - Slender Threads plus: News, Command and Conquer, My Opinion, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

macOS includes openrsync: Wayland-Protocols 1.43: OpenSSL 3.5.0 Cryptographic Library Released: Release of FreeDOS 1.4: Pale Moon 33.7.0: Cozystack 0.30 Released: OpenSSH 10.0 Released: Release of multiple GNU utils: Angie 1.9.0 released: Initial support for Wayland-based session restoration: Fedora 43 Repeatable Builds: Wine-wayland 10.5 Released: Pinta 3.0: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala...

CachyOS distribution 250330 released: OrioleDB developers want to improve the API for alternative PostgreSQL engines: Phosh 0.46.0 released: Linux kernel 6.15 introduces major optimizations to the network subsystem and exFAT: view release of Pidgin 3.0: Betterbird 128.9.0 released: Fedora 43’s transition to RPM 6: First public version of Nelm: XZ Utils 5.8.1 Update with Vulnerability Fix: Ce...

Linux kernel 6.14 released: Release of Hyprland 0.48: Linux kernel, libre 6.14: GIMP 3.0.2: MPV 0.40 Released: AerynOS 2025.03 released: Release of LibrePCB 1.3.0: New login manager in development for KDE to replace SDDM: New version of DeaDBeeF 1.10.0: Zorin OS 17.3 Released: Linux kernel adds support for acting as a host for Hyper-V: Debian 12 Live images now support repeatable builds: Release o...

Release of GIMP 3.0.0: Introducing TinyKVM for process-level virtualization: New stable version of Vivaldi 7.2: Release of elementary OS 8.0.1: SDL3 library with support for older systems: GNOME DE Release 48: Release of miracle-wm 0.5: Release of LosslessCut 3.65.0: NVIDIA driver and GIMP 3.0 for Haiku OS: Google wants to reboot the kernel in the background: Raspberry Pi system image generator: R...

This month: How-To : Networking Basics, Trading Up To Linux and Latex Graphics : Inkscape Review : VirtualBox vs Gnome Boxes and DistroSea [NEW!] Bodhi Corner UbPorts Touch Ubuntu Games - Fates of Ort plus: News, Command and Conquer, My Opinion, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

Nova driver starter code written in Rust is available for Linux kernel 6.15: FreeBSD 13.5 ReleaseD: Haiku Ports Latest Firefox, LibreWolf, and Thunderbird: Mesa replaced the Nouveau OpenGL driver with Zink for new NVIDIA GPUs: CrossOver 25.0 Released: GStreamer 1.26.0 Available: The United Nations has proposed Open Source principles: Ubuntu 25.10 to replace GNU Coreutils with uutils written in Rus...

Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Focal Released: OpenBot 0.8 Creation Platform Released: Thunderbird 136.0 Mail Client Released: Intel Adds eUSB2V2 Support to Linux Kernel: FerretDB 2.0 Release: Release of FEX 2503 emulator: Google Publishes Toolkit for Analyzing and Modifying AMD Microcode: and here Blender-Made Cartoon ‘Flow’ Wins Oscar: Samba 4.22.0 Released: PipeWire 1.4.0 Released: Apertis 2025...