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GIMP 3.2.8 Image Editor Restores Support for Offset as a Non-Destructive Filter

Coming almost five months after GIMP 3.2.6, the GIMP 3.2.8 release adds DPI information when copying an image to the clipboard, restores Offset as a non-destructive filter, adds the ability to cancel font loading in the middle when quitting GIMP early, and improves Dot to Dot support to work better even on integer scaling.

aerynOS 2026.11 Is Out with GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.8, COSMIC 1.11, and Budgie 10.10

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Audacity 4.0.2 Audio Editor Restores Automatic Saving During Recording

Coming a month after Audacity 4.0.1, the Audacity 4.0.2 release restores automatic saving during recording, restores trim, clear selection, and zoom shortcuts, adds PgUp and PgDown timeline scrolling, improves playback latency from input meter display, improves the status bar layout in narrow windows, and improves file importing on Linux.

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.4 Release Candidate

Two weeks have passed since the release of Linux kernel 7.3, which is already arriving in the stable repos of your favorite distros, which means that the merge window for Linux kernel 7.4 is now closed, so it’s time to test-drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions over the next couple of months, every Sunday afternoon.

Budgie 10.10.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements

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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.7 Is Out with Support for Ubuntu 26.10

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    We'd rather talk about the harms caused
  2. Microsoft 'Buyouts' Sound Just Like 60,000 Layoffs of 'Expensive' or More Experienced Staff ('Soft' Layoffs or Even Worse, Negligible Severance)
    This is not a "gift" to staff, it's just a pink slip with a hundred dollar bill attached to it
  3. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
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  7. The Register MS Gets Rid of Disclosures About Paid-for Spam Regarding "AI", It Also Composes Fake News for the Sponsors
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  8. This is How Microsoft Ends (Over a Quarter of the Company Now on the Chopping Block)
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  9. Search Without Encryption for Legacy Systems (Permacomputing) and Full Backward Compatibility
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  10. Shift to the Lula (Left)
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  11. More Stories and Material Than We Can Publish
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  12. European Patent Office Takes From the Poor to Give More to the Rich
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  15. Gemini Links 26/10/2026: Brazilian Politics and Leaving Bear Blog
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