X.Org Server 1.19 Gets First Point Release, Fixes XWayland and RandR Issues
X.Org Foundation’s Adam Jackson was happy to announce the other day the release of the first maintenance update to the X.Org Server 1.19 display server series...
Linux Kernel 4.4.42 LTS Updates USB Drivers, Improves ARM64 Support
Only three days after announcing the release of Linux kernel 4.4.41 LTS, renowned kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman is informing us today, January 12, 2017, about the...
New CloudLinux 7 Kernel Now in Beta, Disables Procfs Restricted Mode by Default
CloudLinux‘s Mykola Naugolnyi is announcing today, January 12, 2017, the availability of a new kernel for the CloudLinux 7 series of enterprise-ready operating systems in the...
Ubuntu Budgie Devs Launch Wallpaper Contest for First Release as Official Flavor
In the good tradition of “wallpaper contests” organized for various Ubuntu flavors, the Ubuntu Budgie team is informing the Linux community about their Ubuntu Budgie 17.04...
Canonical Patches 4 Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities in All Supported Ubuntu OSes
On January 11, Canonical released the first security patches of 2017 to address up to four Linux kernel vulnerabilities in all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems....
Mesa 13.1.0 Branch Is No More, Mesa 17.0.0 to Land in the First Week of February
Collabora’s Emil Velikov is officially announcing today, January 11, 2017, that the upcoming Mesa 13.1.0 branch of the widely-used 3D graphics stack will change its versioning...
FreeOrion Turn-Based 4X Space Empire Conquest Game Is Coming to Fedora Linux
In October last year, Fedora contributor Charles Profitt wrote a tutorial on how to compile and install the FreeOrion open-source turn-based 4X space empire and galactic...
It’s Time to Ditch Skype and TeamSpeak, Discord Launches Its App for Linux Users
In a very brief announcement posted on Twitter earlier today, January 11, 2016, Discord, the company behind the popular, free, and secure all-in-one voice and text chat...
Ubuntu Budgie Devs Would Like You to Vote for New or Old Logos of the Linux OS
It would appear that the Ubuntu Budgie development team is now complete. They were looking for a graphics designer in December, and it looks like they...
Scientific Linux 7.3 to Launch of January 25, First Release Candidate Is Out Now
Scientific Linux’s Pat Riehecky reports on the availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) development build of the upcoming Scientific Linux 7.3 open-source operating system based...
