GNOME Adopting The New Versioning Scheme, Drops 3.x
The GNOME release team announced a new versioning scheme whereby the next release in six months time will be GNOME 40.0.
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Slimbook Essential is an Affordable Linux Laptop with 10th-gen Intel Core
Slimbook Essential 14 ships with Intel Ice Lake processors, while the Slimbook Essential 15 comes with Intel Come Lake-U processors.
GNOME 3.38 Is Here With New App Grid And Better Performence
There are not many major visible changes for GNOME 3.38. Mostly on the native GNOME Apps and performance improvements.
Xfce 4.16 Pre1 Dropping GTK2 Support, Introducing New Icons
Xfce 4.16 pre1 is the next constant version environment, which can formally replace 4.14. Let see what’s coming in the next stable release.
Windows 10 KB4571756 Update Breaks WSL 2
Multiple Windows 10 version 2004 users are reporting they're unable to launch WSL 2 after installing security update, detailed in KB4571756.
Manjaro 20.1 Mikah Comes With New Kernel And Refreshed User Interface
Manjaro 20.1 becomes available for download with a trio of desktop environment options - Xfce (4.14), GNOME (3.36), and KDE Plasma (5.19).
Zorin OS 15.3 Gets Even Better With Latest LibreOffice
Zorin OS 15.3 is a point release, there is no major feature addition of update though. All the core apps have been updated to newer versions.
New LFCF Foundation To Host Open Source Initiative To Address Climate Risk
LFCF aims to build an open source data analytics platform that uses AI and ML in the cloud to calculate the climate risks.
Inkscape 1.0.1 Released With Patched Crashes & Bugs
In Inkscape 1.0.1 you'll find a few features, too, along with translation updates for more than a dozen languages.
Free Software Awards, Nominations Are Open until October 28
The 2020 Free Software Awards will be presented at LibrePlanet 2021. The FSF gives out three awards each year. Find out more in this article.