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Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Beta email client is now available for public testing with an updated user interface designed to be more modern and customizable, improved OpenPGP support, and more.
LibreOffice 7.5.4 is now available for download as the fourth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 7.5 open-source office suite series bringing 83 bug fixes.
KDE Gear 23.04.2 is out now as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 23.04 software suite improving various KDE applications and other comment components.
Cinnamon 5.8 desktop environment is out now with support for touchpad and touchscreen gestures, styles, dark mode, and more.
postmarketOS 23.06 mobile distribution is now available for Linux phones and tablets with GNOME Shell UI, KDE Plasma Mobile, Phosh, and Sxmo interfaces, based on Alpine Linux 3.18.
openSUSE Leap 15.5 distribution is now available for download with KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS and Xfce 4.18 desktops, NVMe-oF over TCP booting, Linux kernel 5.14, and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 base.
Firefox 115 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with Cookie Banner Reduction, Quick Actions in addressbar, and more.
The Mozilla Firefox 114 web browser is now available for download with revamped DNS over HTTPS feature, Cookie Banner Reduction, new Quick Actions button in Address Bar, and more.
blendOS 3 is now available for public beta testing promising support for 9 Linux distros, as well as a new approach to performing system updates without using package repositories.
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 4th, 2023, brings news about immutable Ubuntu Desktop, GNOME 44.2, Ubuntu 18.04 EOL, new Linux-powered laptops, Linux Mint Cinnamon gets touchpad gestures, Kali Linux adopts PipeWire, as well as all the latest distro and software releases.
A quick tutorial on how to enable/re-enable Wayland by default for GNOME for a hybrid NVIDIA graphics system on Fedora Linux 38 Workstation.
GNOME Shell 44.2 and Mutter 44.2 are now available with various improvements and bug fixes following the release of the GNOME 44.2 desktop environment. Here’s what’s changed!
TUXEDO Gemini Gen2 Linux laptops are now available for pre-order with 13th Gen Intel H-Class CPUs, up to 240 Hz displays, up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs, and up to 64GB DDR5 RAM.
Linux Mint 21.2 with the Cinnamon 5.8 desktop environment is getting gestures support for touchpads and touchscreens to control windows, workspaces, tiling, and media.
Arch Linux 2023.06.01 snapshot is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.3, as well as all the latest package updates from May 2023 and the archinstall 2.5.6 text-mode installer.
System76 updates the Galago Pro Linux laptop with 13th Gen Intel H-Class CPUs, a faster 144Hz screen, and the latest Pop!_OS Linux distro.
NixOS 23.05 distribution is now available for download with GNOME 44, KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, Cinnamon 5.6, Linux kernel 6.1 LTS, and new services.
Canonical says that it’s excited to explore the idea of a fully containerized and immutable Ubuntu desktop in the near future.
GNOME 44.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest and greatest GNOME 44 “Kuala Lumpur” desktop environment series bringing various bug fixes and improvements.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series has reached end of life and it’s now transitioned to Extended Security Maintenance. Users are urged to upgrade to Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
