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Fedora 23 Reaches Gold, Launches on November 3

The Red Hat developers have finally greenlit the launch of Fedora 23 and it looks like the new version will finally arrive on November 3, the date that was previously tracked.

PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor

PyRoom is the kind of application that you don't ever hear people talking about, but that is completely surprising once you open it. It's a distraction-free text editor that allows writers to focus on the writing and less on anything else.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Update to Launch on November 18

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 30, 2015 6:02 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The latest Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 update is coming along, and some users are already testing the changes by using the RC proposed channel. The developers have also announced that they are targeting November 18 for the launch, but that hasn't been decided just yet.

Batman: Arkham Knight for Linux Delayed Until Spring 2016

Batman: Arkham Knight was announced for SteamOS and Linux platforms a while back, with the promise of a fall release. As you would expect, that release of the game for these platforms has been delayed.

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth & Rising Tide for Linux Review

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 29, 2015 4:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Games
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is the direct sequel to the excellent Sid Meier's Civilization V and much more than that. We now take a closer look at the Linux version ported by Aspyr Media, along with the latest DLC, Rising Tide.

LibreOffice 5.1 to Start Twice as Fast, Has MS Office 2016 Interoperability

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 29, 2015 1:04 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The first major point release for LibreOffice, the 5.1 branch, is being worked on this weekend during the 1st Bug Hunting Session. This promises to be an important upgrade that should really make a difference.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) to Be Powered Soon by Linux Kernel 4.3 RC7

The development of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) has started, and we even know the launch date for it. We can now begin to track the Linux kernels that will be implemented in the daily builds.

Mycroft AI Already Working on Linux Desktops, Integration Has Started

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 28, 2015 1:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Mycroft developers have been working to adapt the speech recognition system for the Linux desktop, and they have already taken the first steps.

Ashes of the Singularity to Be the First Game with Support for Vulkan and DirectX 12

Ashes of the Singularity is a new RTS game from a studio named Oxide Games with Stardock as its publisher. As it stands right now, this is the first game to be developed to take advantage of DirectX 12, but the makers of the game are also involved with the Vulkan API.

Superb Ubuntu MATE Gold Edition Proposed by User

An Ubuntu MATE user put together a "Gold Edition" of the distribution and made some propositions for the leader of the project, Martin Wimpress. As it turns out, he's going to make some of those things happen.

Kubuntu and Ubuntu Councils Issue Joint Statement

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 26, 2015 1:09 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A joint statement from the Kubuntu Council and the Ubuntu Council has been published today in an attempt to alleviate the questions raised after the departure of the Kubuntu release manager, Jonathan Riddell.

Ubuntu MATE Tools Could Bring Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and Ubuntu Server to Raspberry Pi 2

Ubuntu MATE developers have been working on some tools that allowed them to build the distribution for the Raspberry Pi 2 platform, and they are looking to share those tools and to name them so that other projects can use them, like Xubuntu or Lubuntu.

File Manager on Ubuntu Touch Gets Samba Support

The File Manager is just one of the many community maintained applications on Ubuntu Touch and a new version has been recently released and made available for upgrade.

Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Officially Released with a Huge Number of Improvements

Ubuntu MATE 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that's using the beautifully crafted MATE desktop environment, has been released and is now available for download.

Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 Lands with GNOME 3.16 and Experimental Wayland Session

The new Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) has been unveiled by its developers and is now ready for download. The latest version of this Ubuntu flavor comes with the newest GNOME 3.16.x packages, but it can be upgraded to GNOME 3.18.

Kubuntu 15.10 Launches with the Most Advanced Plasma Desktop

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 22, 2015 3:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The new Kubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) has arrived with all the latest packages in the KDE family, including all the updates that have been recently released for the Plasma desktop.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Released for Desktop, Server, and Clound

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 22, 2015 8:45 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) has finally arrived in its stable form, but don't expect to see too much on the desktop side. This new release of Ubuntu has a lot more changes and features on the cloud and server side of things.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Be Called Xenial Xerus

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 22, 2015 2:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, has announced the name of the new Ubuntu LTS that will launch in April 2016, and it's Xenial Xerus.

How to Install the Massive Cinnamon 2.8 Upgrade Right Now

The new Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment has been pushed into the open as a Beta release. The stable version of the new Cinnamon should be ready by the end of the month, but there is nothing stopping you from trying this right now.

French Government to Consider Moving to Open Source and Away from Proprietary Software

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Oct 21, 2015 8:02 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The French government is now seriously looking at implementing open source software in the public sector after a public debate for France’s Digital Republic bill (La République numérique).

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