The final release of the Cinnamon 3.0 desktop environment was launched last week, tagged as ready for deployment as part of the upcoming Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” operating system. As usual, we…
Linux News Today: Canonical Patches Multiple OpenSSL Vulnerabilities in All Supported Ubuntu OSes
Today, May 3, 2016, Canonical has issued an Ubuntu security notice to inform the community about the availability of new OpenSSL versions that patch various vulnerabilities discovered upstream by various developers. The…
Linux News Today: Mozilla Releases Firefox 46.0.1 to Fix Bugs and Limit Sync Registration Updates
Today, May 3, Mozilla has pushed the first point release of the recently launched Firefox 46.0 web browser to all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Mozilla announced…
Linux News Today: Humble Eye Candy Bundle Brings Five Beautiful Games to Your Linux Gaming Rig
Dear Linux gamers, we have the great pleasure to inform you today about a new games bundle from the famous Humble Bundle initiative, which includes five beautiful games for your GNU/Linux gaming…
Linux News Today: ownCloud 9.0.2 Released with Lower-Severity Security Patches and Hardenings
A few moments ago, May 3, 2016, ownCloud Inc. announced the general availability of multiple maintenance releases for all of its supported branches of the ownCloud self-hosting cloud server. ownCloud 9.0.2, 8.2.4,…
Download Source Code Symfony 3.0.5 / 2.8.5
Sensio Labs is announcing that Symfony with version number 3.0.5 / 2.8.5 is already available to download. What is Symfony ? Symfony is . Symfony is based on the best practices of…
Linux News Today: Unity 8 Won't Be the Default Desktop Session for Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)
The Ubuntu Online Summit started just a few moments ago, and you can watch the Ubuntu Engineering team live right now talking about the features planned for the next Ubuntu release. We…
Linux News Today: Linux Foundation's Badge Program Launches to Boost Security of Open Source Apps
Today, May 3, 2016, Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Linux and open source projects, has announced the general availability of its free badge program. Dubbed CII Best Practices Badges,…
Linux News Today: Vivaldi 1.1 Web Browser Receives the Latest Chromium 50 Security Updates, Fixes
Last week, we reported on the release of the first maintenance version of the stable Vivaldi 1.0 web browser, build 1.1, which has been rebased on the Chromium 50 open-source project. We’ve…
Linux News Today: Here's How to Dual Boot ubuntuBSD with Microsoft Windows
If you’re planning on installing the ubuntuBSD operating system alongside another OS, such as the popular Microsoft Windows, we’re informing you today that there are some easy instructions out there. As we…
Linux News Today: pfSense 2.3 Open-Source BSD Firewall Gets Patch That Fixes NTP Security Issues
pfSense developer Chris Buechler announced the availability of a small update for the stable pfSense 2.3 open-source firewall platform based on the FreeBSD operating system. Introduced as pfSense 2.3 Update 1, this…
Linux News Today: IPFire 2.19 Core Update 101 Patches Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerability in Web UI
The development team behind the IPFire software have announced the general availability of the Core Update 101 of the IPFire 2.19 Linux kernel-based firewall distribution. IPFire 2.19 Core Update 101 is here…
Linux News Today: GhostBSD 10.3 to Add ZFS and UDF Support, to Be Based on FreeBSD 10.3
The development cycle of the GhostBSD 10.3 has started, and a first Alpha build is now ready for public testing, bringing various new features, several improvements, as well as bug fixes. Based…
Linux News Today: VLC Media Player 2.2.3 Improves MKV Tags Support, Fixes WMV Regression
VideoLAN released a new maintenance build for the stable 2.2 series of their popular, cross-platform, and open-source VLC Media Player software, version 2.2.3, for all supported platforms. VLC Media Player 2.2.3 is…
Linux News Today: Manjaro Linux LXQt 16.04 Dark Edition Includes Kwantum Style to Reduce Eyestrain
The Manjaro Linux community has proudly announced the release of the first-ever Manjaro Linux LXQt 16.04 Dark Edition operating system, a variant of Manjaro Linux LXQt 16.04. As its name suggests, Manjaro…
Linux News Today: Installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
In the good tradition of our Ubuntu installation tutorials, as well as at the request of several of our readers, we’ve decided to publish a new guide that will teach you how…
Linux News Today: Debian-Based GParted Live 0.26.0 Is Out with Linux Kernel 4.5 and GParted 0.26.0
Last week, we reported news on the release of the GParted 0.26.0 open-source partition editor software, and now Curtis Gedak informs us about the availability of GParted Live 0.26.0-1. The main design…
Linux News Today: 4MLinux 17.0 OS Hits the Stable Channel, Brings Firefox 46.0 & Thunderbird 45.0
Softpedia has been informed by 4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki about the general availability of his 4MLinux 17.0 independent, desktop-oriented GNU/Linux distribution. After being in development for the past few months, 4MLinux 17.0…
Linux News Today: Third OpenELEC 7.0 Beta Is Out, Built Around the Kodi 16.1 "Jarvis" Media Center
On May 1, 2016, the OpenELEC devs have had the pleasure of announcing the release of the third Beta build of the forthcoming OpenELEC 7.0 Linux kernel-based operating system for embedded devices….
Linux News Today: Arch Linux-Based Apricity OS Up to RC State, Passes the 100,000 Downloads Mark
The skillful Apricity OS team announced on the first day of May the release, and immediate availability for download of the first RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming stable Apricity OS…