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Thunderbird 78 is here with Built-in End-to-End Encryption and Dark Mode

Thunderbird 78 is Here with Major Changes and Dark Mode

OnJuly 21, 2020

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source, cross-platform email client, news client, RSS, and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The new version 78 released with major improvements, bug fixes, and dark mode support.

Procmon For Linux

Microsoft Brings Its Own Open-Source Procmon For Linux

OnJuly 20, 2020

Microsoft has released a Linux version of the popular Procmon utility that Linux users can monitor running processes.

KaOS 2020.07

KaOS 2020.07 – Independend Linux Distribution Focused on Qt and KDE

OnJuly 19, 2020

KaOS is a rolling release Linux distribution build from scratch with a very specific focus on one DE (KDE Plasma), one toolkit (Qt), and one architecture (x86_64).

Laptop Mode Tools 1.74 - Power Saving Tools For Linux

Laptop Mode Tools 1.74 – Power Saving Tools For Linux

OnJuly 19, 2020

Laptop Mode Tools can control the power-saving modes of the hard disk and screen, bluetooth and set the display standby time.

CopyQ Clipboard Manager 3.12 Released

CopyQ – Advanced Clipboard Manager 3.12 Released

OnJuly 16, 2020

CopyQ monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs. It has some powerful features for every Linux user out there.

Ubuntu MATE 20.04 beta 1 is available for Raspberry Pi Model B 2, 3, 3+ and 4

Ubuntu MATE 20.04 Beta 1 is Available for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3+ and 4

OnJuly 14, 2020

Ubuntu MATE 20.04 beta 1 is available for Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4 with separate images for ARMv7 32-bit and ARMv8 64-bit.

Star Labs Star Lite Mk II

Star Lite MK III is an Affordable Linux Laptop from Star Labs

OnJuly 14, 2020

Star Lite MK III is a lightweight Linux laptop with 11.6-inch IPS matte display with Full HD resolution and Intel Pentium Silver N5000 CPU.

Linus Torvalds Criticizes Intel About AVX-512

Linus Torvalds Criticizes Intel’s AVX-512 and Wishes To It ‘A Painful Death’

OnJuly 13, 2020
UpdatedJuly 16, 2020

I hope AVX-512 dies a painful death, and that Intel starts fixing real problems instead of trying to create magic instructions, said Torvalds

Debian Comes to Your Mobile Phone via Mobian OS

Debian Comes to Your Mobile Phone via Mobian OS

OnJuly 13, 2020

Mobian is an open-source project with a mission to bring the Debian GNU/Linux distributions to mobile devices such as tabs and phones.

Microsoft will drop official support of PHP on Windows

Microsoft will drop official support of PHP 8 on Windows

OnJuly 11, 2020

With the release of PHP 8.0, Microsoft was not going to be supporting PHP for Windows in any capacity for version 8.0 and beyond.