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Fedora Linux 45 Is Now Available for Download with GNOME 51 and KDE Plasma 6.8

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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.

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Staying Fast

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 31, 2026

Retro Coffee Drinking Woman

The speed of the site remains in the high percentile, mostly owing to our transition to static pages 4+ years ago. With network overheads eliminated, it's somewhere near 0.1 seconds to retrieve a page in full:

Pingdom Website Speed Test

We hope to improve that and upcoming work* can hopefully help as well. One of our strengths is that pages are light (low RAM and CPU) and quick to load, even on very told computers. Images also have low-resolution versions that help keep bandwidth constrained to what's absolutely necessary for display. █

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* There's "Network Maintenance" a week from now.

Network Maintenance

Image source: Retro Coffee Drinking Woman

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