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Linux darling faces the lawyers over Shotwell shenanigans The GNOME Foundation, maker of the eponymous Linux desktop, has been hit with a sueball over how its Shotwell photo manager, er, manages photos. The plaintiff, Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC, has alleged in a complaint filed at the United States District Court Northern California that defendant, GNOME Foundation, has infringed its patent … Read More

The openSUSE Project announced today the release and general availability of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 operating system, the first minor point release to the openSUSE Leap 15 series. Based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 (Service Pack 1) operating system, the OpenSuSE Leap 15.1 release features an improved installer, updated kernel and graphics stacks with improved support for AMD … Read More

More and more people are trying Linux-based operating systems these days, and with Windows 10 being so hated, that should not be a surprise. Sadly, while the Linux community should be thriving from Microsoft’s missteps with Windows, it feels like the opposite is happening. The Linux Mint development team is experiencing turmoil, for instance, while Scientific Linux has shut down … Read More

Windows 7 End of Life prompted the switch to Linux In an effort to prepare for Windows 7’s End of Life early next year, South Korea has revealed that all of its government computers will soon make the switch from Windows to Linux. The official Windows 7 End of Life is set for January 14 2020 and Microsoft has said … Read More

Windows 10 is getting a new terminal for command-line users, Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference today. The new so-called “Windows Terminal” will launch in mid-June and promises to be a major update of the existing Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell experience. Indeed, it seems like the Terminal will essentially become the default environment for PowerShell, Command Prompt and … Read More

Users are urged to update their installations immediately An important kernel security update has been released for the CentOS 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system series to address a recently discovered vulnerability and other bugs. Marked by the Red Hat Product Security team as having an “Important” security impact, the new kernel security update contains a fix … Read More

LibreOffice Writer can be used to create fillable PDF forms, being a great free, open source alternative to Adobe’s Acrobat for this use case. LibreOffice is cross-platform too, so you can use it not only on Windows and macOS, but also on Linux. PDF files may contain editable form fields that can be filled / edited and saved by the … Read More

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LibreOffice is my favorite office suite as a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Office tools on Linux. Even when I use my Windows machine – I prefer to have LibreOffice installed instead of Microsoft Office tools any day. Now, with the recent LibreOffice 6.2 update, there’s a lot of good stuff to talk about along with the bad news. … Read More

Ubuntu 14.04 is reaching its end of life on April 30, 2019. This means there will be no security and maintenance updates for Ubuntu 14.04 users beyond this date. You won’t even get updates for installed applications and you won’t be able to install a new application using apt command or the Software Center without manually modifying the sources.list. Ubuntu … Read More

Announced last week, System76’s refreshed “Darter Pro” Linux laptop is now available for sale with improved battery life and updated components. The Darter Pro 2019 laptop is finally here to address the shortcomings of the previous model. It features a larger, long-lasting battery, smaller bezels, and a tactile, multi-color backlit chicklet keyboard, as well as upgraded internals to make it … Read More

Purism, the computer manufacturer known for it’s high-quality, privacy-focused laptops powered by a Linux-based operating system, announced an upcoming partnership with Gdquest. GDQuest, an indie game designing company, will be partnering with Purism in an attempt to teach you how to create games that would be playable on Purism’s upcoming Librem 5 Linux smartphone. GDquest’s founder Nathan Lovato will be … Read More

Containers and Kubernetes are great, but they didn’t have a native integrated development environment… until now. These days we often package our new programs in containers, and we then manage those containers with Kubernetes. That’s great as far as it goes, but if you’re a programmer, it’s still missing a vital part: An integrated development environment (IDE). Now, Red Hat … Read More

Not everyone prefers to use Wine. But, if you have a favourite app/service that is not yet available for Linux, you can try Wine in order to run Windows apps or games. For those who are not aware of Wine, it’s a software that lets you run Windows-only applications and games on Linux. Want iTune on Linux, Wine is your … Read More