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Linux Phone Crowdfunding Campaign Just Passed 50% Of Its Goal with a Month Left

Purism’s Linux phone crowdfunding campaign has now passed 50% of its overall goal. It seems that getting the backing of both GNOME and KDE has given the Librem 5 campaign a boost of publicity, and a […]

27 September 2017
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Ubuntu Dock Now Supports Progress Bars and Badge Counts

Support for the Unity Launcher API has managed to squeak in to the Ubuntu Dock package on Ubuntu 17.10 before the user-interface freezes takes place.

25 September 2017
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PipeWire aims to do for video what PulseAudio did for sound

PipeWire is a new multimedia processing framework for Linux that aims to improve the handling of audio and video on Linux.

21 September 2017
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GNOME Global Menu Extension ‘Discontinued For the Moment’

The developer behind the popular Global App Menu GNOME extension has announced it is “discontinued for the moment”. Explaining the reasons for his decision on Github, Lester Carballo cites the shift to Wayland (the extension doesn’t […]

21 September 2017
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GNOME Foundation Gives its Backing to Purism’s Linux Phone

The GNOME Foundation has today given its backing to Purism's ambition of building a free, open-source smartphone with user privacy and encryption as a central feature.

20 September 2017

The Official GNOME 3.26 Release Video Has Arrived

The GNOME 3.26 release arrived earlier this week, and now an official release video has popped out to help highlight all of the new features it brings.

15 September 2017
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Lenovo Accidentally Leaks an Image of its ‘Retro Thinkpad’

If you’ve been patiently waiting for your first proper glimpse of the Retro Thinkpad, consider yourself rewarded. An image of what appears to be the retro ThinkPad was uploaded to the Lenovo website, where it […]

14 September 2017
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KDE Plasma Mobile Is Coming to the Purism Librem 5

Purism and KDE have today announced plans to work together to bring Plasma Mobile to the Librem 5 handset, the Linux phone currently being crowdfunded.

14 September 2017
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Sublime Text 3 Officially Released for Windows, macOS and Linux

Sublime Text 3 has been officially released! I know; it feels like you’ve been using the beta builds for what feels like an eternity — but, at long last, a new stable release of the […]

13 September 2017
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GNOME 3.26 Officially Released

GNOME 3.26 has been officially released — hurrah! If you’ve been waiting on the official nod to pull the string of your celebratory party popper, that’s your cue! A mailing list post, a fancy wiki […]

13 September 2017
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MPV 0.27 Released with Minor Fixes, New OpenGL Options

An updated version of MPV, the popular open-source media player, is available to download.

13 September 2017
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Github Announce Atom IDE

Github has announced Atom IDE, an add-on that transforms the Atom text editor into a full IDE using language servers to provide syntactical analysis of code.

13 September 2017