Cinnamon 5.6 desktop environment is out now and we take a look at the new features and improvements implemented in this major release.

The Broadcom V3DV VideoCore open-source Vulkan driver within Mesa has landed a rewritten occlusion queries implementation for better performance and reliability.

Qt Creator 9 open-source IDE is now available for download with experimental Squish support, C++, QML, and CMake improvements, and more.

Brief: Rnote allows you to take notes, draw, and annotate documents. Sounds like you need it? Let us explore more.





We have featured numerous note-taking applications, but options that support handwritten notes are a handful.





Rnote is one such helpful…

I spotlight a simple GNOME extension that replaces the icons for GNOME Clocks and Calendar apps with dynamic, real-time alternatives. Check it out!

LibreOffice 7.4.3 is now available for download with a total of 100 bug fixes to improve document interoperability and core components.

The first release candidate of the Sway 1.8 Wayland compositor is now available for testing.

Vim is awesome. NeoVim is newer and even more awesome. Both Vim and NeoVim are terminal-based text editors with similar features.





If you are someone who is accustomed to using GUI text editors like VS Code and wish to have the similar functionality that…

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Linus Torvalds just christened the Linux 6.1-rc7 kernel as what is now expected to be the second to last release candidate before Linux 6.1 is officially released in December.

qBittorrent 4.5 open-source and free BitTorrent client is now available for download with exciting new features and many improvements.

Xfce 4.18 features a raft of enhancements to this lightweight desktop environment. In this post I run through the top new features and changes.

NVIDIA 525.60.11 Linux graphics driver is now available for download with Dynamic Boost support on AMD laptops, many improvements.

For the past two decades the RPM package manager software has relied upon its own OpenPGP parser implementation for dealing with package keys and signatures

Want to run multiple sessions in one terminal Window? Screen and tmux commands could be complicated. Terminator is what you need.

NixOS 22.11 is now available for download with the GNOME 43 and KDE Plasma 5.26 desktop environments, Linux kernel 6.0, and much more.

For those looking to enjoy the ZFS file-system on Linux and FreeBSD platforms, OpenZFS 2.1.7 is now available.

Does Ubuntu need anti-virus software? The general answer is no, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't use one to run a check every now and then – use ClamAV.

System76's upcoming Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment promises HDR support, smooth NVIDIA experience, and many other novelties.

With the new Mesa 22.3 release one of the changes for vintage hardware users is the introduction of 'HasVK' as a Vulkan driver forked from Intel's ANV codebase.

'Metagedit' is a powerful plugin for Gedit text editor that adds extra functionality, including encoding detection, tab sessions, line operations, and more.