Mozilla stresses the importance of Google's search deal to its survival, and to the health of the web as a whole.
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Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival
Google's search deal with Mozilla is such a sizeable portion of its overall income that without it, Firefox would struggle to compete - or eve...
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BleachBit 5.0 has been released after a year-long development effort, bringing a clutch of new cleaning abilities to Linux (and Windows) users.
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System Cleaner BleachBit Returns with 'Major Update'
Open source system cleaning appΒ BleachBitΒ has put out its first major update in more than a year, adding improved cleaning capabilities, security...
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Linux system monitor app 'Mission Center' update adds S.M.A.R.T. disk reports, per-process network usage, Raspberry Pi GPU monitoring + more
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Mission Center 1.0: New Features, Better Performance
Linux system monitoring app Mission Center has put out its first update in 6 months – and it's a big one! Mission Center 1.0 adds new hardwa...
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Ubuntu is serious about RISC-V, as news that its bringing Ubuntu 24.04 desktop to the Qualcomm Dragonwing Vision Kit shows
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Canonical Brings Ubuntu 24.04 to Qualcomm Dragonwing Vision Kit - OMG! Ubuntu
Canonical has announced the first official Ubuntu desktop image for the Qualcomm DragonWing platform. A beta image of Ubuntu 24.04 desktop compatib...
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Papirus icon set update adds 69 new icons, 18 updated glyphs, and hugely improved support for KDE Plasma 6.x
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Paprius Icon Set Update Brings New Icons, Plasma 6 Support
If you use the Papirus icon theme on Ubuntu, you’ll be pleased to hear a new version is available to download. Frequent updates are a major reaso...
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Linux App Release Roundup (April 2025): Thunderbird, Kdenlive, Boatswain, QEMU, Typhoon, Calibre, and Resources
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Linux App Release Roundup (April 2025)
April saw a solid set of software updates land for an slew of popular Linux apps. In this post, I run through a number of recent releases that didn...
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Development has officially started on Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka', which begins its journey to release this October
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Ubuntu 25.10 Opens for Development
Development today opened on Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka", the next short-term release of Ubuntu, due for release in October. Canonical engineer U...
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Astronomers and fans of celestial whimsy may be interested in Luna, a new GNOME extension that makes it easier to monitor moon phases.
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Track Moon Phases on Ubuntu with Luna GNOME Extension
Luna brings moon phases to your Ubuntu desktop with a simple GNOME Shell extension. Track current phase, illumination percentage, and upcoming chan...
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Firefox 138 adds long-awaited profile management capabilities plus a few other features, including (sponsored) weather results for US users and a nifty way to copy background tab links
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Firefox 138 Released with New Profiles Manager
At long last, Mozilla Firefox has GUI profile management features – obvious, easy to use and don't require poking around the browser's ...
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Turntable is a universal scrobbler app for #Linux AND a slick desktop 'now playing' controller
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Turntable is a Universal Scrobbling App for Linux
If you're looking for an easy way to "scrobble" music on Linux, no matter which music player you use, check out a new app called Turntable β€”...
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