The development team behind digiKam, a popular open-source and cross-platform RAW image editor, viewer and organizer for KDE and Qt-based desktop environments and operating systems, has announced today, August 9, 2016, the…
Linux News Today: Canonical Makes Its Ubuntu Linux Professional Support More Accessible to Anyone
Today, August 9, 2016, Canonical, through Ellen Arnold, has announced that the professional support subscription, namely Ubuntu Advantage (UA), is now even more accessible and easier to purchase. Through its Ubuntu Advantage…
Linux News Today: SUSE and Mirantis to Offer Full Enterprise Linux Support for SLES, RHEL & CentOS
Today, August 9, 2016, SUSE, the company behind the powerful SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) operating systems, has announced that it partners with Mirantis, the pure-play…
Linux News Today: Canonical Makes It Easy to Port Native iOS and Android Apps to Ubuntu Mobile OS
Today, August 9, 2016, Canonical, through Richard Collins, has been proud to announce the availability of the React Native web development framework for its popular Ubuntu Linux operating system. It appears that…
Linux News Today: Vendetta Online 1.8.384 Adds New Voice Chat Commands, VR Improvements
Guild Software announced a new maintenance update for their popular Vendetta Online MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) title, version 1.8.384, for all supported platforms. According to the release notes, Vendetta Online…
Linux News Today: Claws Mail 3.14 Email Client Lets You Secure Passwords with a Master Passphrase
A new major release of the user-friendly, lightweight, open-source, cross-platform and fast Claws Mail GTK+ email client has been announced for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems with new features and countless…
Linux News Today: Linux Kernel 4.7 Now Unofficially Available for Slackware 14.2 and Derivatives
In the good tradition of unofficial Linux kernel releases for Slackware-based GNU/Linux distribution, GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton informs us about the availability of the recently released Linux 4.7 kernel for Slackware 14.2…
Linux News Today: FreeBSD 11.0 Is Getting Closer and Closer, Fouth Beta Out Now for Public Testing
FreeBSD’s Glen Barber announced the availability of the fourth Beta for the upcoming FreeBSD 11.0 operating system, a major release that will introduce a huge number of new features and improvements. Looking…
Linux News Today: Vine Linux 6.5 Enters Beta, Adopts Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS, Glibc 2.23 & GCC 4.9.3
After one and a half years of hard work, the Vine Linux developers are happy to announce that the next major release of the GNU/Linux operating system is now in development. Yes,…
Linux News Today: ownCloud Desktop Client 2.2.3 Adds HiDPI Improvements, Linux Minimal Mode
A new update of the popular ownCloud Desktop Client has been released bringing numerous improvements and fixes for some of the most annoying bugs reported by users since the previous release. ownCloud…
Linux News Today: Audacious 3.8 to Finally Add Support for Running Multiple Instances, Beta Is Out
The popular Audacious music player is again in development, and it looks like the next major release will be version 3.8, for which a Beta milestone has been made available for public…
Linux News Today: UbuntuBSD 16.04 "A New Hope" Beta 1 Now Available Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
UbuntuBSD developer Jon Boden was extremely proud to announce today, August 9, 2016, the release and immediate availability of the first Beta development milestone towards the upcoming UbuntuBSD 16.04 operating system. Dubbed…
Linux News Today: FFmpeg 3.1.2 "Laplace" Open-Source Multimedia Framework Updates Components
Today, August 9, 2016, the FFmpeg development team proudly announced the general availability of the second maintenance update for the FFmpeg 3.1 “Laplace” series of the widely-used open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework….
Linux News Today: Solus Upgraded to the GNOME 3.20 Stack, Now Powered by Linux Kernel 4.7
Solus developer Joshua Strobl proudly announced the 33rd installation of Solus Project’s This Week in Solus weekly newsletter to inform the community about the latest technologies and software releases implemented in the…
Linux News Today: GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 6 Now Enabled by Default in Debian Unstable
Debian developer Emilio Pozuelo Monfort announced this past weekend the enablement of the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6 compiler tools by default for Debian Unstable. Back in June, the Debian devs were…
Linux News Today: Linux Kernel 4.8 Getting Microsoft Surface 3 Touchscreen Support, RC1 Out Now
It’s been two full weeks since the official release of Linux kernel 4.7, which is the latest and most advanced stable branch, and the time has come for Linus Torvalds to announce…
Linux News Today: Snapcraft 2.13 and Snapd 2.11 Land with Support for Downgrading Installed Snaps
Canonical, through David CallĂ©, has had the great pleasure of announcing new maintenance releases of the Snappy tools Snapcraft and Snapd, which bring new features and several enhancements. Both Snapcraft 2.13 and…
Linux News Today: blackPanther OS 16.1 "Silent Killer" Arrives After a Year with Linux Kernel 4.7
It has been more than a year since we last heard something from the development team of the blackPanther OS GNU/Linux distribution, who had the great pleasure of announcing this past weekend…
Linux News Today: Wine 1.9.16 Fixes Microsoft Word / Excel 2010 Crash, Nvidia GT 740M Support
Wine 1.9.16 development release has been announced this past weekend for those who love living on the bleeding-edge, bringing more improvements and numerous bug fixes to various Windows apps and games. A…
Linux News Today: Gorgeous Apricity OS Gets Its First Stable Release, Based on Arch Linux
Apricity OS maintainer Alex Gajewski has proudly informed Softpedia about the availability of the first stable release of his gorgeous Arch Linux-based computer operating system. Dubbed “Aspen,” Apricity OS 07.2016 has been…