Ubuntu Is Used All over the World, Reveal Initial Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop Metrics
Canonical revealed today the initial desktop metrics that it gathered from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users since the release of the operating system in April 2018. During...
Fedora Atomic Host to Become Fedora CoreOS After Red Hat's Acquisition of CoreOS
The Fedora Project’s leader Matthew Miller and Red Hat’s Atomic OpenShift Engineer Dusty Mabe announced Fedora CoreOS, an upcoming operating system designed to replace Fedora Atomic...
LibreOffice 6.0 Is Now Ready for Mainstream Users and Enterprise Deployments
The Document Foundation informed Softpedia today about the general availability of the fifth point release of the LibreOffice 6.0 open-source and cross-platform office suite for all...
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Is Now Certified on Intel's NUC Mini PCs and IoT Boards
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system used by millions of computer users worldwide, announced today that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is now certified...
Flatpak 1.0 Linux Application Sandboxing & Distribution Framework Is Almost Here
Flatpak, the Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework formerly known as XDG-App, is closer than ever to get its first ever stable, production-ready release. While it’s...
PulseAudio 12 Open-Source Sound System Released with AirPlay, A2DP Improvements
PulseAudio 12.0, a major version of its open-source sound server program designed to work on a wide-range of POSIX operating systems like Linux, BSD, macOS, and...
Canonical Releases AMD Microcode Updates for All Ubuntu Users to Fix Spectre V2
Canonical released a microcode update for all Ubuntu users with AMD processors to address the well-known Spectre security vulnerability. The Spectre microprocessor side-channel vulnerabilities were publicly...
GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment Gets New Milestone, Beta Expected on August 1
The GNOME Project announced the release and availability of the third development milestone of the upcoming GNOME 3.30 “Almería” desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. In an...
CentOS Atomic Host 7.5 Released for Those Who Want to Run Linux Containers
The CentOS Atomic SIG team announced the release of the CentOS Atomic Host 7.5 (7.1805) operating system for those who want to run Linux containers on...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Adds Retpoline Mitigations for Spectre & Meltdown
Red Hat announced on Tuesday the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 maintenance update for enterprise customers that still use the Red Hat Enterprise...
