Firefox 134 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 134 web browser touchpad gestures on Linux now allow for interrupted kinetic scrolling. Plus, HEVC hardware support lands on Windows.
AB Download Manager - manage and organize downloading files
AB Download Manager is software which is designed to make it easier and quicker to download files from anywhere. It runs as a standalone desktop app and also offers browser extension support for Firefox and Google Chrome.
How to Write a Bash Script with Help and Usage Examples
Writing Bash scripts can significantly enhance your productivity, especially when performing repetitive tasks. This article provides a step-by-step guide on creating a Bash script that features a built-in help menu and usage examples, making it user-friendly for both beginners and advanced users.
Serpent OS Demonstrates Working Offline Rollbacks With Its Package Manager
Hot off the recent Serpent OS Alpha release and talking up new features for 2025, this original Linux distribution led by open-source developer Ikey Doherty is now demonstrating its offline rollback support with integration around its package management system.
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery
Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap. Google promised a decade of updates for its Chromebooks in 2023 to stop them being binned so soon after purchase, but many are still set to reach the end of the road in 2025 and over the next several years.
Fedora Seems to be Dying of Neglect by IBM
When I used the first (and second) releases of Fedora (FC and FC2) there was a massive community of volunteers. They wanted GNU/Linux to succeed on the desktop (laptop too) - an objective hardly shared even by Red Hat back then. It was left for volunteers to pursue, for the most part....
CPico RP2040 a Cost-Effective MCU Board with Debugging Enhancements
The CPico RP2040 is a microcontroller board based on the RP2040 microcontroller. Designed to closely match the Raspberry Pi Pico, it maintains full pin compatibility, allowing developers to integrate it into existing setups without modification.
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 To 24.04 Upgrade Breaks Due To PipeWire And PulseAudio Conflict
Ubuntu Studio users are experiencing widespread failures when attempting in-place upgrades from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS. The root cause appears to be a conflict arising from the optional switchability between PipeWire and PulseAudio sound servers in Ubuntu Studio 24.04.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 1 (Dec 30 – Jan 5, 2025)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Chimera Linux, Nobara 41, Sparky 7.6 releases, Debian 13 alpha installer, Plasma 6.2.5, Fish Shell in Rust, & more.
KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls
After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his "This Week in Plasma" series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week.
Slackware-Based Absolute Linux Has Been Discontinued
Absolute Linux, the Slackware-based distro, ends its journey as Paul Sherman announces its termination, citing a lack of time.
Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux
Mozilla published today the final builds of the Firefox 134 web browser, which you can download from the official download server for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.
‘Everything Open’ Is Reinventing Open Conferencing in Post Pandemic Oz
Although it appears that after a 22-year run that linux.conf.au is now a thing of the past, the folks who brought it to you have launched a new conference that’s about… well, everything open.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault open source remake new Beta gets lots of fixes
I'm genuinely looking forward to replaying through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the expansions thanks to the open source OpenMoHAA project that just put out a new Beta release. It works cross-platform across Linux, macOS and Windows.
Change the Priority of PPAs or Apt Package Repositories in Ubuntu
This is a step by step guide shows how to set the priority of certain packages, launchpad PPAs, and/or other apt repositories in Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and their based systems.
Mullvad Browser: A Super Privacy-Focused Browser Based on Firefox
Mullvad is Firefox, but enhanced for privacy, pretty interesting take as a cross-platform private browser app.
16-bit Linux-like Goodness
We see many 16-bit retrocomputers around here based on Intel and Intel-like chips such as the 8086, 8088, V20, and similar. While they don’t seem very powerful by today’s standards, they were perfectly capable machines and, thanks to Elks (Embeddedable Linux Kernel Subset), you can run something fairly Linux-like on these devices.
Xfce 4.20: Best New Features
A quick glance into the new features of Xfce 4.20 desktop environment.
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 5th, 2025
The 221st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 5th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.
Xubuntu 25.04 Preparing Xfce 4.20 Desktop Upgrade
For fans of the Xubuntu derivative of Ubuntu Linux, the upcoming Xubuntu 25.04 release will feature the Xfce 4.20 desktop...
ProtonUp-Qt v2.11 Introduces New Features and Bug Fixes
The new ProtonUp-Qt v2.11 enhanced gaming on Linux with proton-ge-rtsp, WineZGUI, and key bug fixes.
Fish Shell 4.0: Rust Is Coming
Two years, 57k lines of C++, now 75k lines of Rust. Fish Shell 4.0 beta has been entirely rewritten in the Rust programming language.
ChromeOS UCSI Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.14 Cycle
With the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle Google is poised to have its ChromeOS UCSI driver upstreamed...
Here’s the Most Popular Databases for 2024
DB-Engines publishes the 2024 database popularity stats. See the leading platforms in data management for the past year.
Alternatives to popular CLI tools: history
history is a command which displays or manipulates the history list. We recommend alternatives to this command.
Debian-Based Sparky 7.6 Now Available for Download
The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.6 rolls out with kernel 6.1 LTS, KDE Plasma 5.27.5, Xfce 4.18, LibreOffice 7.4.7, and more.
What Would Dennis Ritchie Say About the "Memory-Safe" Hype (or Cargo Cult)?
The languages are sometimes being blamed for shoddy coding practices
LLVM Had Another Exciting Year With More Than 37k Commits, 35.5 Million Lines
LLVM development has peaked in recent years at around 37k commits per year for this huge, innovative open-source compiler stack. It was another very exciting year for this leading open-source compiler stack.
How to Disable IPv6 on Linux
If network troubleshooting leads you to believe there's an issue with IPv6, you may need to shut down that protocol on your Linux machines.
Keep-Alive: Prevent Your Computer from Sleeping on Linux, macOS and Windows
Is your computer going to sleep in the middle of downloads or updates? Meet Keep-Alive, a lightweight tool designed to keep your system awake.
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