Canonical: We Are Excited to Explore the Idea of a Fully Containerized, Immutable Ubuntu Desktop
Canonical says that it’s excited to explore the idea of a fully containerized and immutable Ubuntu desktop in the near future.
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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.
Armbian 23.05 distribution for ARM and RISC-V devices is now available for download with Debian 12 “Bookworm” base and support for Linux kernel 6.3, as well as official i3 support.
Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS images are now available for the AMD-Xilinx Versal AI Core Series VCK190 Evaluation Kit.
Kali Linux 2023.2 ethical hacking and penetration testing distro is now available for download with PipeWire support to the Xfce edition and overhauled i3 desktop.
The LibreOffice open-source and free office suite received support for importing and exporting APNG (Animated PNG) images and improved PGP/GPG encryption during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023.
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 28th, 2023, brings news about Fedora Onyx, Nitrux 2.8.1, new features for Linux users in Firefox 115, Night Color support for KDE Plasma 6, Mesa 23.1.1, beta version of MX Linux 23, as well as all the latest distro and software releases.
Debian-based Nitrux 2.8.1 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.3, Plasma Wayland by default, Mesa 23.2-git, and much more.
MX Linux 23 distribution is now available for public beta testing based on Debian 12 “Bookworm”, Linux kernel 6.1 LTS, Xfce 4.18, KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, Fluxbox 1.3.7, and more.
The upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment promises to offer support for the Night Color feature on Wayland on systems with NVIDIA GPUs.
Cartridges is our “Flatpak App of the Week” as a free and open-source GTK4 game launcher for Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles, Itch, and more.
Mesa 23.1.1 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with improved VA-API/H.264 for Firefox on Fedora Linux 37, improved support for several games, and other bug fixes.
Firefox 115 web browser will enable Linux users to open links or search for text using middle-click on the New Tab button for increased productivity while surfing the Internet for their daily tasks.
Fedora Onyx has been approved as an immutable variant of Fedora Linux 39 featuring the Budgie desktop environment.
Tux Paint 0.9.30 open-source and free digital painting program for children is now available for download with updated Magic effect tools, as well as various other minor changes.
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 21st, 2023, brings news about Linux 6.2 EOL, HDR support on KDE Plasma 6, a new System76 laptop, AlmaLinux OS 9.2 and Rocky Linux 9.2, Ubuntu 23.10’s improved PPA support, AVIF and JPEG XL support for Xfce Screenshooter, as well as all the latest distro and software releases.
KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment promises basic HDR support and color management in KWin on the Plasma Wayland session.
System76 announced an updated Lemur Pro Linux laptop with a 13th-Gen Intel CPU, DDR5 RAM, and up to 14 hours of battery life.
Xfce’s default screenshot tool (xfce4-screenshooter) has been updated to let you save screenshots in the AVIF (AV1) and JPEG XL (JXL) image formats.