Zorin OS 18 Officially Released, Specifically Tailored for Windows 10 Expats

Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14. Here’s what else is new!
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ZorinOS 18 Released with New Look, New Apps + More

A brand new version of Zorin OS, the user-friendly Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, is available for download. Zorin OS 18 is based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with the Linux 6.14 kernel, and uses a heavily customised version of GNOME Shell 46 which, in this update, has been “redesigned” with a floating rounded panel and adds a new window tiling extension. The distro’s development team say this version aims to ‘significantly improve’ productivity and app compatibility and make the system the “ideal choice” for anyone looking to switch to Linux now that Windows 10 has reached the end of support. Alongside new ISO downloads […]
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Релиз Firefox 144

Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 144 и сформированы обновления прошлых веток с длительным сроком поддержки - 140.4.0 и 115.29.0. На стадию бета-тестирования переведена ветка Firefox 145, релиз которой намечен на 11 ноября.

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New in Microsoft Copilot: Third-party connectors, Office document export, OneDrive integration

Microsoft announced new Copilot features for Windows and OneDrive during its third annual OneDrive digital event and a Windows Insider update. The updates introduce AI-powered file management in OneDrive, document creation and export capabilities for Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and connectors for third-party services, including Google products.
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NordVPN Just Open Sourced Its Linux App GUI

NordVPN Linux app added a GUI earlier this year and today the company behind the popular privacy tool has open sourced the front-end. Since it added a user-friendly frontend to its official Linux app, the number of daily Linux devices using NordVPN “grew by more than 70%”, the company says. Now, in an effort to ‘build on that momentum’, it’s open-sourcing the Linux GUI. The code is hosted on GitHub, which offers build instructions and contribution guidelines. NordVPN’s command-line interface was already open-source. “Linux is built on openness and community collaboration. It’s what makes it one of the most resilient […]
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Mozilla Thunderbird 144 Updates the Flatpak Runtime to Freedesktop SDK 24.08

Mozilla Thunderbird 144 open-source email client is now available for download with an updated Flatpak runtime and various bug fixes. Here's what's changed!
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📰 Zorin OS 18 Officially Released, Specifically Tailored for Windows 10 Expats

Zorin OS 18 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.14. Here’s what else is new!

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📰 Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left

Adding to the unfortunately long list of Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel...

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GStreamer 1.26.7 Improves Support for the NVIDIA Jetson AV1 Encoder

GStreamer 1.26.7 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!
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📰 FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project

The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...

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📰 Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver

Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone...

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Firefox 144

Доступен Firefox 144.
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>>> Примечания к выпуску для разработчиков>>> Все исправленные в этом выпуске ошибки



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VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 Released

Since it was made free to download, install and use for whatever you want, VMware Workstation Pro (and macOS counterpart Fusion Pro) have seen continued updates, the latest of which arrived this week. Sporting a new versioning scheme based on calendar dates, the VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 update adds support for newer hardware and updates its range of supported ‘host’ operating systems (the one you install VMware Workstation in). VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 ships with Virtual Hardware Version 22. VMware hardware versions set out the virtual hardware a VM can use, and each bump to the spec expands the range, […]
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Thunderbird 144 Released with Bug Fixes and Flatpak Runtime Update

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Конкурс по открытому системному ПО - Open OS Challenge 2025

Стартовал конкурс по открытому программному обеспечению - Open OS Challenge 2025, участникам которого предложено решать задачи в области системного программного обеспечения, администрирования и разработки под Linux. Конкурс проводят сообщество разработчиков Linux-дистрибутива OpenScaler, компания Сбербанк-Технологии (СберТех), сервис GitVerse и АНО Центр развития инновационных технологий «ИТ-Планета». Соревнования нацелены на популяризацию системной разработки и открытого программного обеспечения.

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NordVPN Has Open-Sourced its Linux App GUI - OMG! Ubuntu

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How to Install and Use PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

The post How to Install and Use PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .PostgreSQL (Postgres in short) is an open source, powerful, advanced, high-performance, and stable relational-document database system, which extends the SQL
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Фонд СПО раскрыл подробности о проекте Librephone

Фонд СПО официально ввёл в строй проект Librephone, впервые анонсированный в начале октября на мероприятии, посвящённом сорокалетию организации. В долгосрочной перспективе Librephone сосредоточен на обратном инжиниринге проприетарных блобов, отвечающих за взаимодействие с оборудованием мобильных устройств, а также разработке и продвижении свободных альтернатив для замены проприетарных компонентов, используемых в прошивках на базе Android.

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow gets a Steam release

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Telegram, Please Learn Who's a Threat and Who's Not

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