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Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices

Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices

Pocketblue is a new community project focused on bringing an immutable Fedora experience to mobile devices. Built on Fedora Atomic, it adapts the Atomic model for smartphones and tablets. At the moment, hardware support is very limited. Pocketblue currently runs…

7-Zip 26.0 File Archiver Improves ZIP and RAR Handling

7-Zip 26.0 File Archiver Improves ZIP and RAR Handling

7-Zip, a popular open-source tool for compressing and extracting files, has released version 26.0. This update refreshes the internal code for several archive formats, such as ZIP, CPIO, RAR, UDF, QCOW, and Compound. The 7-Zip File Manager has also been…

Squirrel Servers Manager: The Ansible & Docker-Powered Tool

If you’ve spent any real time wrangling Linux servers — whether you’re running them bare metal, in VMs, or inside containers — you know the drill. You open a terminal, SSH into a box, run a playbook, forget which node…

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.7 Improves Workspaces Overview

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.7 Improves Workspaces Overview

System76 has rolled out COSMIC Desktop 1.0.7, a small but meaningful maintenance update that continues the project’s steady cadence of improvements and bug fixes across the new desktop environment. One of the most noticeable enhancements lands in the Workspaces Overview,…

Nginx Proxy Manager 2.14 Drops armv7 Support

Nginx Proxy Manager 2.14 Drops armv7 Support

Nginx Proxy Manager, a popular web-based and user-friendly reverse proxy management interface for Nginx, has just released version 2.14. Starting with this version, the project no longer builds images for armv7/armhf systems. Users on 32-bit ARM hardware will need to…

KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Released

KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Released

Roughly four months after the major 6.5 release and five follow-up maintenance updates, the KDE team has unveiled the highly anticipated KDE Plasma 6.6. This new version introduces a range of usability improvements, visual refinements, and new features across the…

Fish Shell 4.5 Fixes Vi Mode Regressions and Improves History Search

Fish Shell 4.5 Fixes Vi Mode Regressions and Improves History Search

Fish, the widely used and user-friendly command-line shell, has released version 4.5. This maintenance update continues refining the 4.x series with bug fixes and internal improvements. The most noticeable changes resolve several Vi mode regressions introduced after version 4.4. The…

Lutris 0.5.20 Improves Proton Integration and Adds Steam Family Source

Lutris 0.5.20 Improves Proton Integration and Adds Steam Family Source

Lutris, the free and open-source gaming platform for Linux, has rolled out version 0.5.20, bringing notable improvements to Proton integration, new runners, and enhanced game management features. With this release, Proton-GE launched through Umu is now the default option. Umu…

Bottles 62.0 Adds Dynamic Launcher Portal Support

Bottles 62.0 Adds Dynamic Launcher Portal Support

Bottles, the open-source application built on Wine that makes it easy to run Windows apps and games on Linux through a streamlined graphical interface, has introduced version 62.0 with several important improvements. One of the main fixes enhances GPU detection…

KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

KDE Responds to FUD Over Alleged systemd Mandate

In a development that surprised some—but perhaps not others—the KaOS Linux distribution, long recognized for its strong alignment with the KDE Plasma desktop, recently announced plans to move away from it. The stated reason? KDE’s reliance on systemd within a…