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New Smartwatches Support PebbleOS with Long Battery Life and E-Paper Displays

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Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here with Xfce 4.20, Refreshed Theme

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GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of GNOME 48 include dynamic triple buffering to boost the performance on low-end GPUs, such as Intel integrated graphics or Raspberry Pi computers, Wayland color management protocol support, new Adwaita fonts, HDR (High Dynamic Range) support, and a new Wellbeing feature with screen time tracking.

elementary OS 8.0.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Built on top of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat) and powered by Linux kernel 6.11, elementary OS 8.0.1 is here as an updated installation media for those who want to deploy the elementary OS 8.0 “Circe” release on new computers without having to download hundreds of updates after the installation.

Blender 4.4 Released with a Big Update for the Experimental Vulkan Backend

Coming four months after Blender 4.3, the Blender 4.4 release introduces support for integer sockets in the compositor, a much more accurate Fast Gaussian mode of the Blur node, a revamped Glare node for greater control and a better user experience, and support for rendering videos using the H.265/HEVC codec.

Fedora Linux 42 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48

Powered by the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 42 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 48 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Spin, which was promoted to edition status.

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Don't Be Intimidated By Linux's Notorious GRUB Bootloader

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 06, 2025

Quoting: Don't Be Intimidated By Linux's Notorious GRUB Bootloader —

You may have heard about how difficult the GRUB Linux bootloader is to install and configure. If that's holding you back from installing Linux, you should know it's nothing to be scared of, if you have to deal with it at all.

Despite GRUB's notorious reputation, I've installed it on almost all of my Linux systems.

A bootloader sounds scary in theory. This is software where one wrong move can turn your computer into an expensive desk ornament. Fortunately, almost all major distros will handle the hard parts of configuration for me. I don't have to edit or tweak anything. At the very end of the installation process, most Linux distro installers will have some kind of wizard that will even automatically detect other OSes on the machine and install GRUB.

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