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The Linux Mint project is about to get a lot more interesting because, with the 18.x branch, the developers are going to introduce the so-called X-Apps, which are designed to work across Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

The Android-x86-based Remix OS was launched a couple of weeks ago to great acclaim, and now it's receiving the first update.

The official launch announcement for Firefox 44.0 has finally landed, and it details the changes and improvements that have landed in this latest release.

The Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 has finally arrived, and users should start to get the new update in the next 24 hours, in a phased manner.

A new Alpha is supposed to make an appearance this week for Ubuntu flavors, but developers don't seem to have expressed an interest for it.

The Solus operating system is now available in a stable form, and its developers are preparing to release the first point release.

The Linux Foundation made some changes to by-laws, and that stirred things in the Linux community. The organization has issued a statement now addressing the concerns.

One of the things that some people say about the Linux platform is that it's fragmented, just like Android. The truth is that fragmentation doesn't really apply to the Linux platform, and the fact that there are too many distros to count is actually a good thing.

Debian 8 (Jessie) has just gotten a new update, and developers have added a number of fixes and other adjustments for some serious issues.

SteamOS has been out for quite some time, and now we also have Steam Machines in the wild, but it looks like AMD video cards continue to be a problem for this platform.

uNav, a turn-by-turn GPS navigator and map viewer for Ubuntu Touch, has been upgraded once more, and a number of features have been improved.

The Linux Foundation has recently made some changes to its by-laws and excluded individual members from the voting process for board members.

The kernel vulnerability that was revealed only yesterday got some users panicked, but the truth is that’s not really the case. It’s easy to scare users with warnings of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, which powers pretty much everything. The vulnerability was aptly named CVE-2016-0728, which is not all that impressive. This is the first indication. When something is bad enough, it usually receives a name, like Heartbleed for OpenSSL. When you’re called CVE-2016-0728, it’s hard to become a serious threat. This is a joke, of course, and people should be always aware if vulnerabilities, even if they are not called Linus' Doom.

A fresh Opera stable update has been released, but it’s a really small one. The developers have made some changes to get Netflix running, although they still haven’t made things easy.

Information about Remix OS and its apparent issue with GPL and Apache surfaced last week, but its developers have taken some steps to correct that issue.

A new version of the Steam Beta client has been released, and it comes with fresh features and a few fixes for the Steam Controller.

Microsoft recently published an article in which they explain how they come to the idea for Continuum and how they pretty much “invented” it.

The Ubuntu community is set on providing proper support for the Pebble smartwatch, and it looks like the RockWork project is going really well.

Nvidia recently launched a new Beta driver, 361.18 , for the Linux platform, and it only brought support for a couple of new GPUs. It turns out that it also had a fix regression that affected KDE, and that's it's actually crashing people's PC with at least a couple of games.

A new Steam beta update has been released by Valve, and it brings a few fixes for the Steam Controller and some of the other components. The Steam developers have been pretty active in the past few weeks, and it looks like they are still working to improve the Steam Controller functionality. As it stands right now, any user that bought a Steam Controller still needs the Beta branch of the client, if they want to use it as they should.