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Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) system is currently in the Final Freeze phase, which is the final stage before the final release. At this stage, the main check will affect...
GNOME project member Abderrahim Kitouni announced yesterday that the latest GNOME 3.30 desktop environment could be downloaded and installed as a Flatpak runtime from the Flathub website to the GNU/Linux distribution. Kitouni said, “The...
Canonical today released the first public beta version of Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish), and the official version is scheduled to be released on October 18, 2018. Ubuntu 18.10 Beta is equipped with some of the...
Quirky Linux is a sister project of Puppy Linux, a Linux distribution created with a custom tool called Woof. The underlying infrastructure, such as startup and shutdown scripts, preparation tools, hardware detection, desktop management, user...
The French network security agency ANSSI has opened up its secure operating system CLIP OS, which is based on the Linux kernel. ANSSI says it has been developing and upgrading the CLIP OS for...
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel developer and maintenance manager, officially finalised today that the upcoming 4.19 branch will be a long-term support release. Currently, Linux Kernel 4.17 has ended its life cycle, and 4.18 does not...
Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution and project based on Debian or Ubuntu that is committed to being a “powerful and easy to use, modern, elegant and comfortable operating system.” Linux Mint provides an...
Earlier this week, the Linux Kernel 4.17 kernel branch received the 19th maintenance release update, which is the last maintenance update for the branch and will no longer receive updates. The Linux Kernel 4.17 branch...
Canonical’s Steve Langasek announced on Friday that the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) entered the functional freeze and Debian import freeze development phase. Functional freezing is a significant development phase of the GNU/Linux distribution, meaning...
Today, Kali Linux developer team release Kali Linux 2018.3. Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution for digital forensics and penetration testing, developed and maintained by Offensive Security. Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns rewrote BackTrack....
In the daily build of Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) released today, the new Yaru (formerly known as Communitheme) theme is enabled by default. When the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) was released a few months...
Barry Kauler announces that the new Linux distribution Quirky has released version 8.6. Quirky is a sister project of Puppy Linux, a Linux distribution created with a custom tool called Woof. The underlying infrastructure, such as startup...