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Purism Says Its Privacy-Focused Linux Phone Will Use Wayland and i.MX8 ARM CPU

Two and a half months after it successfully crowdfunded its Librem 5 privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted Linux smartphone, Purism released today the first update on the development progress.

GNOME Devs to Users: Desktop Icons Are Moving to GNOME Shell with GNOME 3.28

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 16, 2018 10:58 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNOME
There appears to be a lot of fuss lately about the removal of an option from the GNOME desktop environment that allows users to display icons on their desktops.

Valve Releases New SteamOS Beta Update with Linux Kernel 4.14.13, Upgrade Fixes

Valve released on Tuesday a new beta update of its Debian-based SteamOS gaming Linux distribution for Steam Machines and anyone else who wants to run SteamOS on their personal computers.

KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS Enters Beta, Brings Unified Look and Phone Integration

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 15, 2018 11:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
The KDE Project announced a few moments ago the release of the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems.

Linspire and Freespire Linux OSes Now Patched Against Meltdown and Spectre Flaws

After releasing an updated ISO image for Black Lab Enterprise Linux with patches against Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, Roberto J. Dohnert also updated the Linspire and Freespire Linux OSes.

AMD Releases Linux and Windows Patches for Two Variants of Spectre Vulnerability

AMD has published a press announcement on Thursday to inform its customers that it released patches for two variants of the Spectre security vulnerability disclosed to the public earlier this month.

Meet Nextcloud Talk, World's First Self-Hosted, Encrypted Communication Platform

Nextcloud informs Softpedia today on the general availability of Nextcloud Talk, world's first self-hosted, enterprise-ready, and end-to-end encrypted audio/video and chat communication platform.

Opera 51 Browser Enters Beta with Support for AppleScript and Many New Features

The upcoming Opera 51 web browser was promoted on Thursday to the beta channel, giving users a more in-depth look at what to expect from the final release, which will be available next month.

How to Check If Your Linux PC Is Vulnerable to Meltdown & Spectre Security Flaws

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 13, 2018 7:10 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
They affect us all, so we've put together a straightforward tutorial for Linux users to see if their PCs are protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities or not.

Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" Respin ISOs Are Now Available to Download

As promised last week, Canonical released today new ISO images of the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system, including for all official flavors, to address a bug that bricked the BIOS of some laptops.

Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) Has Reached End of Life, Upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 Now

As of today, January 13, 2018, the Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) operating system has reached end of life and it's no longer supported by Canonical with security and software updates.

Raspberry Pi Zero WH SBCs Are Now Available with Professionally Soldered Headers

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today a new variant of the tiny Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer that comes with a pre-soldered header.

Krita 4.0 Open-Source Digital Painting Tool Enters Beta, Here's What to Expect

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 12, 2018 7:41 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The developers of the Krita open-source and cross-platform digital painting software have released today the first beta version of the upcoming Krita 4.0 major release.

Look Munich, City of Barcelona Is Dumping Windows and Moves to Ubuntu Linux

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 12, 2018 12:15 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
While the City of Munich is switching back to Windows after running Linux on their public PCs, a move that will cost them over €100 million euros, the City of Barcelona is making the smart choice of dumping Microsoft's products and switch to Linux and Open Source.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Patched Against Meltdown/Spectre, Adopts LibreOffice 6.0

openSUSE Project reports today through Douglas DeMaio that the openSUSE Tumbleweed software repositories have been flooded this week by four new snapshots that brought updated components and other improvements.

Debian Stretch and Jessie Get Kernel Patches to Mitigate Meltdown Security Flaw

The Debian Project released updated Linux kernels for Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" and Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie" operating system series to patch the Meltdown security vulnerability and other issues.

Canonical Fixes Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Regression Causing Boot Failure on Some PCs

Canonical has released on Wednesday a new Linux kernel update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system series to address a regression introduced with yesterday's security patch against the Meltdown vulnerability.

Intel Releases Processor Microcode Patch for Linux OSes, Here's How to Update

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 10, 2018 2:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Intel
Intel has released an updated microcode patch for Linux-based operating systems to address the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities.

openSUSE-Based GeckoLinux Receives New, Revamped Releases Built with KIWI

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 9, 2018 8:43 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: SUSE
The developer of the openSUSE-Based GeckoLinux open-source operating system announced the release of a major update to both the GeckoLinux Static and NEXT series.

Linux Mint Devs Respond to Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities

Linux Mint developers have published today a statement regarding the recently unearthed Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, informing users on how to keep their PCs secure.

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