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LibreOffice Online Project Reopened With New Community Focus

LibreOffice Online Project Reopened With New Community Focus

The Document Foundation (TDF) has officially revived LibreOffice Online, reversing its decision from 2022 to suspend development and archive the project. The TDF Board has rescinded the previous votes, re-opened the repository, and invited the community to resume work on…

Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Steam Sniper Runtime and New Console Emulators

Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Steam Sniper Runtime and New Console Emulators

Just a week after the 0.5.20 release, Lutris, the popular open-source gaming platform for Linux, has launched version 0.5.21 with some exciting new features and fixes. Here’s a rundown of the key updates: Key Highlights: Bug Fixes: Several bugs have…

Wine 11.3 Released with Mono 11 and VKD3D 1.19 Upgrade

Wine 11.3 Released with Mono 11 and VKD3D 1.19 Upgrade

The Wine Project has released Wine 11.3, marking the third maintenance update to the stable 11.x series. This update brings several improvements, bug fixes, and optimizations to enhance compatibility for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS. Here are the…

Linux User & Group Management Commands 2026

Linux User & Group Management Commands 2026

In Linux, mastering user and group management is not just sysadmin busywork — it’s the foundation of a secure, well-governed system. Every daemon, developer, and deployment depends on it. Whether you’re setting up a fresh Ubuntu server, hardening a production…

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.8 Improves Files, Terminal, and Wi-Fi Dialog Behavior

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.8 Improves Files, Terminal, and Wi-Fi Dialog Behavior

System76 has rolled out COSMIC 1.0.8, a small maintenance update delivered as part of its regular release cadence aimed at polishing the desktop and fixing issues promptly. Much of this release centers on improvements to the file manager. Users can…

Manjaro-Based Mabox Linux 26.02 Released with New Audio Menu

Manjaro-Based Mabox Linux 26.02 Released with New Audio Menu

Mabox Linux, a lightweight rolling-release distribution built on Manjaro and centered around the Openbox window manager, has introduced its new 26.02 release. One noticeable addition is an updated audio menu. Users can open it with the W-a shortcut or by…

KaOS Explains Why It’s Ending Its 12-Year KDE Plasma Era

KaOS Explains Why It’s Ending Its 12-Year KDE Plasma Era

Over the past week, discussion has grown around the new Plasma Login Manager introduced with KDE Plasma 6.6, which now requires systemd. Shortly after its release, KaOS unexpectedly announced that it would move away from Plasma as its default desktop…

Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements in Linux 7.0

Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements in Linux 7.0

For those running Linux guests on Microsoft Hyper-V, the Linux kernel 7.0 cycle delivers several meaningful virtualization improvements. These updates land alongside continued enhancements to KVM, making 7.0 a strong release overall for hypervisor and cloud workloads. Integrated Scheduler Support…

Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features

Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features

Linus Torvalds has officially closed the merge window with the release of Linux kernel 7.0-rc1. Although the jump to version 7.0 follows Torvalds’ usual habit of incrementing the major version after x.19 releases, this cycle is packed with substantial changes…

oVirt 4.5.7 Released After Two Years With New OS & CPU Support

The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted…