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Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu and Debian based Linux Distribution, is going to add new system administration, information tools, and redesigned application menu in next release.
As you may know, Linux Mint has an official blog that updates monthly with news about the development process. In recent updates, it introduced some exciting new features that will include in next Linux Mint 22.3.
LXQt, the lightweight Qt based desktop environment, released new version 2.3.0 few days ago.
The new release of this free open-source Linux desktop continued improving Wayland support. The Desktop Switcher panel applet now works on Labwc, niri, and Wayfire Wayland compositors that support ext-workspaces-v1 protocol.
NVIDIA 580.105.08, a new point release for the latest production branch driver for Linux, was released yesterday.
This is the 5th release in the NVIDIA 580 series. It introduced a new environment variable and fixed various bugs.
KeePass Password Safe released new 2.60 version few days ago. Here are the new features and PPA update for Ubuntu users.
The new release of this free open-source password manager application added support importing .csv passwords exported from Mozilla Firefox web browser.
Ubuntu team announced the release schedule for next Ubuntu 26.04 LTS few days ago!
Ubuntu 26.04, code-name Resolute Raccoon, is the next Long Term Support (LTS) release that will have 5-year standard support until 2031 and another 5 year Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) support via Ubuntu Pro.
After 2 months of development, the Shotcut video editor released new 25.10 version yesterday.
The new release of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor introduced new option to generate image or video from HTML, Text to Speech, and some other exciting new features.
For MATE users, Debian and Ubuntu are finally migrating this desktop environment to version 1.28 for Debian Testing (Forky) and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
MATE, the continuation of GNOME 2, is a popular lightweight desktop environment for Linux. The latest version is MATE 1.28 which was released more than a year and a half ago in February 2024.
Resources, the modern task manager and system monitor app for Linux desktop, released new 1.9.0 version few days ago.
The new release of this free open-source application added more languages support, more display options, bug-fixes and improvements.
BleachBit, the CCleaner alternative system cleaner app, released new 5.0.2 in last week with support for cleaning more app caches.
BleachBit is a free open-source application for Linux and Windows that can free up disk space by deleting cookies, cleaning internet history, discarding junks and removing logs.
After almost three years of development, SuperTuxKart kart racing game finally released new major 1.5 version few days ago.
The new release of this game introduced Supersampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) support. Meaning that it can render game resolution higher than current screen size (even over maximum display resolution). It greatly improved the graphics quality, which is however extremely heavy that may lower frame rate.
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