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SuperTux 0.7.0 Arcade Game Is Out with Complete Level Design, Revamped Graphics

Coming more than four years after SuperTux 0.6.3, the SuperTux 0.7.0 release introduces brand new sprites and abilities for Tux, including slope sliding, strong buttjumping, rock rolling, and crawling, revamped graphics for most backgrounds, tiles, objects, and badguys, and a complete level design of all modes.

GIMP 3.2 Open-Source Image Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of GIMP 3.2 include new non-destructive layers, a new paint blend mode called Overwrite that lets you directly replace the pixels over the area you paint, a new setting in the text tool to control the direction of the text outline, and automatic matching of Linux and Windows OS themes.

Debian 13.4 “Trixie” Released with 111 Bug Fixes and 67 Security Updates

Coming two months after Debian 13.3, the Debian 13.4 point release is here to provide the community with an updated installation media targeting those who want to deploy the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series on new hardware or those who had issues with the previous ISO releases.

KDE Frameworks 6.24 Improves Support for Plasma and Kirigami-Based Apps

The KDE Frameworks 6.24 release is here to workaround a Qt bug that caused extremely strange cache-related issues throughout Plasma and Kirigami-based apps, which would randomly break certain components in these applications.

Marknote 1.5 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Is Here with Source Mode, KRunner Plugin

Highlights of Marknote 1.5 include a highly requested Source Mode, allowing you to bypass the rich-text WYSIWYG interface entirely by turning Marknote into a dedicated source editing app, and support for internal wiki-style links for notes with cross-notebook lookup.

Valve Releases New Steam Client Stable Update to Address Various Bugs

Coming only a week after the previous Steam Client update, the new release fixes a Linux issue where the Steam Client would get stuck in a loading spinner after restarting it in Offline Mode, and fixes an intermittent error that occurred when opening the Big Picture Mode overlay.

Calibre 9.5 E-Book Manager Introduces a New Tool to Remove Unused Images

Coming two weeks after Calibre 9.4, the Calibre 9.5 release introduces a new tool in the Edit book component to remove unused images, a reset button to the reading stats panel in the E-book viewer, along with an option to display the pages from the paper book page list while also showing the last page number.

LinuxGizmos.com

Forlinx Showcases i.MX95-Based FET-MX95xx-C SoM at Embedded World 2026

The module integrates the NXP i.MX9596 processor, which combines six Arm Cortex-A55 cores running up to 1.8 GHz with real-time microcontroller cores including Cortex-M7 at 800 MHz and Cortex-M33 at 333 MHz. Graphics processing is handled by an Arm Mali-G310 GPU supporting OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.2, and OpenCL 3.0.

Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 20, 2023

  1. [Meme] Axe-murdering for Bill and Jeff
    Golden Axe meme
  2. Making Community, Part A
    Article by Thomas Grzybowski
  3. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 19, 2023
    IRC logs for Thursday, October 19, 2023
  4. Nonsense in 'the News' That Makes You Want to Spit Out the Coffee in Laughter
    Imagine the media calling Photoshop holes a Windows issue
  5. It Looks Like Gulag Noise ("Google News") is Dying and Legal Issues/New Laws Likely Contributed a Lot to That
    To be very clear, Gulag Noise ("Google News") used to be sort of OK more than a decade ago
  6. Growing the Site and the Movement (in the Face of Corporate Takeovers)
    The list of upgrade & migration tasks is becoming shorter
  7. Links 19/10/2023: Russia Detains More Journalists, Another Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Computer-Generated Nonsense ("AI" Hype)
    Links for the day
  8. Links 19/10/2023: Open Document Format (ODF) Adopted by NATO, Twitter No Longer Free to Use
    Links for the day
  9. Impending Homepage Change: A Month Has Passed Since Our Upgrade, Time to Redo The Front Page
    Coming Home
  10. Google Becoming More Like Apple (User-Hostile Lock-Down, Users' Software of Choice Maligned as 'Sideloading'), Not the Other Way Around
    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
  11. Links 19/10/2023: Apple Sales Collapse, Wall Street Dips
    Links for the day
  12. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 18, 2023
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    About a day's worth
  14. Rumour: Microsoft Not Done Eliminating Jobs at LinkedIn
    Call it unsubstantiated or whatever, all that "Hey Hi" (chatbot) vapourware did not pay off. It just cost Microsoft a lot of money in energy, water, and marketing bills.
  15. Browsing This Web Site Like It's 2006 Again
    Wayback Machine 'portal'
  16. Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Static
    We roll out our own
  17. [Meme] Normal People Do Not Talk of Themselves as a Third Person While Donning Axes
    From the old homepage of a serial harasser
  18. Links 18/10/2023: US Tech Worker Laid Off Almost Every Minute, Craig Murray Arrested Again
    Links for the day
  19. Riding Buzzwords
    Blockchain all the things!
  20. We Can Only Have (Software) Freedom as Long as Viable Choices Remain
    The licence is insufficient, except in theory (or for relatively small programs in less complex/complicated systems)
  21. What the Latest Sanctions Against Chinese Imports Will Accomplish in Practice (Almost Nothing)
    They talk of "AI" chips, meaning standard GPUs with some task-optimised accelerators
  22. Android and Linux Climbing in France
    Firefox at a relatively high 8%
  23. Diplomacy and Communication Strategies Matter to Software Freedom (Who Talks for You?)
    We need to get back to a technology sector that's run by and for geeks, not by suits for shareholders
  24. A "Sunset Period" at Microsoft
    We eagerly look forward to the day GNU/Linux is the "default" platform for laptops and desktops, just like in servers
  25. Microsoft Shutting Down GitHub and LinkedIn Offices This Year (Despite Return-to-Office Policies) and the Shutdowns Carry on This Month
    This has nothing to do with "remote work" (misnomer); it is about Microsoft losing money.

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