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Ubuntu Desktop Shortcut Keys Reference Made Simple

This listing contains useful keyboard shortcuts for Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" which makes use of GNOME 46 technology as its desktop environment. By using these shortcut keys, you can work quicker and more effectively. We made it simple by listing only a few those mostly used in daily works and removing a lot of the rest. Now let's start trying them!

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole Released with Download Links, Mirrors and Torrents

Congratulations to Canonical for the release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" on Thursday 10 October 2024! We happily welcome the latest, greatest Free/Libre Open Source Software and Technology coming with Ubuntu Oracular! In this listing, we collected the download links, mirrors and torrents as well as checksums of all Official Flavors. We also completed it with links to the Announcements and Release Notes from each official project and we hope you experience the best computing and community with the Ubuntu family.

9to5Linux

VirtualBox 7.1.4 Adds Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.12 and Other Linux Changes

Coming only three weeks after VirtualBox 7.1.2, the VirtualBox 7.1.4 release is here to introduce automatic upgrading of the Linux Guest Additions via the Devices menu on ARM systems, improved flickering, black screen, and other screen update issues with recent Linux kernels, and adds initial support for the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel series in Linux Guest Additions, with the following warning.

KDE Plasma 6.2.1 Improves Support for XWayland Games, Fixes Various Bugs

KDE Plasma 6.2.1 is here to improve support for XWayland games when using screen scaling by making pointer acceleration behave the same as in native Wayland apps, add a visible title to the Wallpapers page in System Settings, and remove the extra padding around all elements in the Touchpad page in System Settings.

Fwupd 2.0.1 Adds API to Allow GNOME Firmware to Record Devices for Emulation

Coming just ten days after fwupd 2.0, the fwupd 2.0.1 release adds an API to allow the GNOME Firmware graphical frontend to record devices for emulation, as well as support for saving the emulation-tag devices to the database instead of the configuration file.

Clonezilla Live 3.2 Disk Imaging/Cloning Tool Is Out Powered by Linux Kernel 6.11

Clonezilla Live 3.2 is here a little over three months after Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 to bump the kernel from the Linux 6.9 used in the previous version to Linux 6.11 to provide users with better hardware support. It also rebases the underlying GNU/Linux operating system on the Debian Sid repository as of October 15th, 2024.

Solus 4.6 “Convergence” Released with Mesa 24.2, Experimental Software Centers

Still powered by the Linux 6.10 kernel series, Solus 4.6 ships with a newer graphics stack, namely Mesa 24.2, for an extra boost in games and other graphics software. It also brings more usr-merge work, which aligns Solus with the compatibility efforts from Fedora Linux and other distributions.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 13th, 2024

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Inkscape 1.4 Open-Source SVG Editor Released with Filter Gallery, Modular Grids

Coming more than 1 year and four months after Inkscape 1.3, the Inkscape 1.4 release introduces a new Filter Gallery dialog to make it easier to find the best filter for your needs, new grid selector buttons to make it easier to identify the grid of your choice, and new modular grids to plan layouts and create icons.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 13.5.8 (Android only)

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

All donations to the Tor Project matched 1:1, now through Dec 31

Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing stories from some of the millions of people you’re helping when you support Tor, the impact we've made this year, details about what’s coming next to our suite of privacy and censorship circumvention tools, and ways you can help make privacy online easy and accessible.

LinuxGizmos.com

ASUS Fanless Chromebox CF40 with Celeron N4500 Released

The ASUS Fanless Chromebox CF40, powered by the Intel Celeron N4500 processor, is a compact computing solution designed for stable performance. Its fanless chassis provides quiet operation and effective thermal management, with a small form factor and an optional lockable VESA mount for versatile placement.

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Puppy Forum and Dolphin in QV, pink and grey galahs have returned!

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 28, 2024

Barry Kauler ☛ KDE Dolphin works in QV

It is almost 4am, should be in bed, but couldn't resist doing this...
Barry Kauler ☛ The pink and grey galahs have returned!

I posted a couple of days ago about compiling the 6.6.52 kernel:
Kernel 6.6.52 compiled — September 25, 2024

But then built QV and discovered that btrfs support is a module. Require it builtin, and want to enable kexec, so have recompiled 6.6.52 with these:

CONFIG_BTRFS_FS=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y

The reason for that last one is that the menu in the initrd has an item to run the Xorg Wizard if the video is broken. That requires the "nomodeset" kernel command-line option. The initrd has the 'kexec' utility, which can restart the kernel with a new set of command-line parameters.

Tux Machines