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The Astro Slide is an Android-based smartphone with sliding physical keyboard currently crowdfunding its way into existence — but with the added lure of Linux support. Now, i’m generally wary of mentioning anything that is crowdfunded. That goes double when it’s a) technology being hawked on …
A new version of the Telegram desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux is now available — and it hides some very useful new features. Desktop Telegram 2.0 echoes some of the changes on offer in the recent Telegram 6.0 update for mobile systems. This includes …
One longstanding complaint I hear about modern GTK apps is that they don’t like anywhere near as fancy as their macOS, Windows, iOS and even KDE Plasma counterparts. A big reason for that is a lack of blur effect support in Mutter (and GNOME Shell at …
If you’re a fan of the Arc GTK theme — and there’s a good chance you are as its incredibly popular — you may be concerned to hear that the skin is no-longer in active development. Indeed, the reader who got in touch with me to …
QQ for Linux, the popular instant messaging apps developed by Tencent, released the second Beta on April Fools’ Day. The development of QQ on Linux is quite slow. It has been 5 months since the last release. QQ for Linux 2.0 Beta 2 features: Stability improvements. …
Fre:ac audio converter 1.1 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. Fre:ac 1.1 is a new major release with tons of new features. Highlights include: Official Linux, Mac OS, and 64-bit Windows binaries. Support for dark mode …
Free-software planetarium Stellarium 0.20.0 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Stellarium 0.20.0 brings GUI refactoring and updating, code refactoring (related to Solar system), and many improvements in the code of plugins. Changes in …
Linux Kernel 5.6 was officially released. Linus Torvalds announced: So I’ll admit to vacillating between doing this 5.6 release and doing another -rc. This has a bit more changes than I’d like, but they are mostly from davem’s networking fixes pulls, and David feels comfy with …
Oracle Java 14 was released more than a week ago. For those want to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 18.x, 19.x, and their derivatives, an installer script is available in PPA. For new features and other changes in …
Open-source painting software Krita 4.2.9 was released as the latest stable version a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Krita 4.2.9 is “really stable after all the testing it had during the beta period”. Improved the brush …
