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How To Install Tor Browser on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you install Tor Browser, the anonymity-promising web browser derived from Firefox, on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". We also included below how to update, how to make desktop shortcuts, and even how to contribute back to this amazing Free Software project. Now let's begin and happy surfing!

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GNOME 46.5 Released with Mutter and GNOME Shell Improvements

GNOME 46.5 is here five weeks after the GNOME 46.4 release and fixes smartcard logins, adds user permissions to new Wi-Fi connections for restricted users, fixes the showing of pending PAM messages on the login screen, and fixes the “Locate Pointer” accessibility option when the “Reduce Animation” option is turned on.

Proton 9.0-3 Released with Support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Farlight 84

Proton 9.0-3 is here more than three months after the Proton 9.0-2 release to add support for even more Windows games, including Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (desktop only), Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!, Banyu Lintar Angin, Dinner with an Owl, Farlight 84, Flatout 3, KinitoPET, and Owl Observatory Demo.

Zorin OS 17.2 Is Out Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.8 from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Coming after Zorin OS 17.1, the Zorin OS 17.2 release is powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel series from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) to provide users with better support for newer hardware when installing Zorin OS. This release supports Intel Core Ultra and AMD Zen 5 CPUs, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20, 30, and 40 series GPUs, Lenovo laptop keyboards, Logitech peripherals, and various gamepads.

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HandBrake 1.7 Released with AMD VCN AV1 and NVIDIA NVENC AV1 Encoders

posted by Marius Nestor on Nov 16, 2023,
updated Nov 21, 2023

Coming almost a year after HandBrake 1.6, the HandBrake 1.7 release is here with lots of goodies for Linux users including bit depth and HDR information in video summary, support for native file choosers via xdg-desktop-portal, drag and drop support for video scanning, improved Intel QSV support, Meson support, as well as import and export of XML chapters.

Also for Linux users, HandBrake 1.7 adds a new option to let users pause encoding when switching to battery power or when power save mode is activated, automatic file naming options, updated Queue, Activity, and Presets windows to no longer float on top of the main window, along with a new Queue > Add All menu option.

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HandBrake 1.7 Released with AMD & NVIDIA AV1 Encoders + More

HandBrake 1.7.0 brings several new features that will benefit users on Windows and macOS, as well as a host of Linux-specific buffs.
Buffs. I do seem to use that word an awful lot of late…

New features in Handbrake 1.7, as well as more other general changes everyone gets to enjoy (hardware dependant), include...

Late coverage:

HandBrake AV1 video transcoding gets hardware speed boost on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs

HandBrake 1.7.0 supports hardware-accelerated AV1 transcoding on all popular GPUs, including those from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia.

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Calibre & Handbrake have big new releases

Open source, DRM-Free media management continues to improve

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