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Love Ubuntu but want the latest KDE Plasma? KDE neon now sits atop Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13, 2020

Merging together a solid Ubuntu 20.04 LTS foundation and the latest KDE Plasma packages, KDE neon has a fresh rebase out for you to try out.

Ubuntu needs feedback on some possible major WiFi changes

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13, 2020

Are you an Ubuntu Linux user on either Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy - unreleased, in testing) or 20.04 LTS (Focal - the current release)? The Ubuntu Foundations Team needs feedback on some possible major WiFi changes.

Designed for big-screen TV gaming, the SteamOS-like 'GamerOS' has a new release

By Liam Dawe, Jul 23, 2020

Celebrating one year of existence, the impressive Linux distribution 'GamerOS' has a brand new release out for this updated SteamOS-like experience.

Linux distro Fedora 33 may get DXVK as the default for Wine

By Liam Dawe, Jul 22, 2020

If you make use of the Wine compatibility layer on Fedora, it seems the upcoming Fedora 33 release may end up defaulting to DXVK for better performance.

Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' is out with better NVIDIA Optimus support, fractional scaling

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2020

Linux Mint 20 has today been officially released across multiple official desktop environments and it's all sounding great. The Cinnamon desktop edition sounding especially good.

Linux Mint 20 hits Beta with Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktops

By Liam Dawe, Jun 16, 2020

The Linux Mint team have announced the big push towards release with a Beta version of Linux Mint 20 available now across three different desktop environments.

elementary OS now allows updates without admin permission

By Liam Dawe, Jun 5, 2020

As part of the ongoing work to reduce authentication fatigue, the elementary OS team are going over everything with a fine-tooth comb to ensure asking for admin / root permission makes sense.

Linux Mint votes no on Snap packages, APT to block snapd installs

By Liam Dawe, Jun 3, 2020

The Linux Mint distribution team put out another of their monthly updates, and this month was quite interesting.

SteamOS-like Linux distribution GamerOS has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, Jun 1, 2020

GamerOS, a Linux distribution based originally on Arch with a firm focus on an out of the box experience for gaming on your couch (much like Valve's original idea with SteamOS) has a new release.

Raspberry Pi 4 goes 8GB, plus new 64bit OS

By Liam Dawe, May 29, 2020

The highly versatile Raspberry Pi 4 now has a new 8GB model and their official Debian-based operating system has a new 64bit version for you to play with.

Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" due in June with fractional HiDPI scaling, brighter icons and better performance

By Liam Dawe, May 1, 2020

The team behind popular Linux distribution Linux Mint have a monthly update out to go over what their plans are and their funding, and it's all sounding great.

Linux distribution Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS from System76 is out now with awesome Auto Tiling

By Liam Dawe, Apr 30, 2020

Hardware vendor System76 have just released Pop!_OS 20.04, their Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 20.04 with all their fancy tweaks and it's a brilliant release.

Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution Fedora 32 released

By Liam Dawe, Apr 28, 2020

The Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution, Fedora, has a brand new release today with Fedora 32 showing off some of the latest of what open source has to offer.

Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia released with Xfce, KDE and GNOME editions - Snap and Flatpak support included

By Liam Dawe, Apr 26, 2020

Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia has been released today, as the latest major refresh for this Arch Linux based distribution.

Lenovo are to start shipping Fedora Linux as an option on their ThinkPad laptops

By Liam Dawe, Apr 24, 2020

As a nice win for open source, hardware vendor Lenovo are going to begin offering Fedora Linux on their ThinkPad line.

Distro News - Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa', Ubuntu MATE and other flavours released

By Liam Dawe, Apr 23, 2020

Today is the big day for Canonical and their partners. Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' is officially released as their new LTS (Long Term Support) edition along with other desktop flavours like Ubuntu MATE.

Manjaro needs testers for the upcoming Manjaro GNOME 20.0 release - Snap and Flatpak support OOTB

By Liam Dawe, Apr 20, 2020

Manjaro Linux is getting ready for their major release, and they're looking for your help to make sure the GNOME edition for Manjaro GNOME 20.0 is as smooth as possible.

The 'GameMode' performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Dawe, Apr 19, 2020

As possibly the last feature to be accepted and implemented before the big release, Feral Interactive's GameMode performance tool has been added officially into Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

GNOME's Mutter gets 'fullscreen unredirect' supported on Wayland

By Liam Dawe, Apr 17, 2020

In upcoming versions of GNOME, one quite big change had now been merged in for those of you using it with Wayland.

Linux distribution 'Pop!_OS' has a Beta release for the upcoming 20.04 with automatic window tiling

By Liam Dawe, Apr 17, 2020

Pop!_OS, the Linux distribution based on Ubuntu from the folks at System76 is also getting in on the fun with a Beta release of the upcoming Pop!_OS 20.04.

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