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KDE Plasma 6. 7 release brings per-monitor desktops, revives Oxygen
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (950+ words) Revival of the classic Oxygen theme is also included KDE Plasma 6. 7 has been released, and it brings a feature many of its users have been requesting for decades: independent per-screen virtual desktops. The latest stable update also sees a classic…...
Firefox 152 debuts with new-look Settings, odd way to mute tabs
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (662+ words) Mozilla has released Firefox 152 with revamped Settings and faster ways to share web content " plus, a peculiar way to mute noisy tabs. The update is available from today (15 June, 2026) on Windows, mac OS and Linux, as well as for Android…...
Firefox's free VPN lifts data limit, offers 28 server locations
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (245+ words) You can now use1 Firefox's'free built-in VPN without a monthly data limit " but only until August 31, 2026. Mozilla is also temporarily expanding the list of VPN server locations available to proxy your browsing traffic via, up from the current set of 5 locations…...
Libre Office gives its Ribbon-style UI a pop of colour
5+ day, 22+ min ago (366+ words) Eye-catching refresh for the suite's Tabbed UI mode You'll be able to customise the look of Libre Office's Tabbed UI in the free office suite's next major release, which his due out in August 2026. Libre Office 26. 8's Tabbed UI (also…...
This dev's personal website is an interactive GNOME 2 desktop
1+ week, 1+ day ago (456+ words) Nostalgia as a design choice Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away " well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of…...
Microsoft brings Coreutils to Windows " natively
1+ week, 2+ day ago (293+ words) Redmond adds more carrots to its stick Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run natively on Windows. The project is based on uutils, the Rust-based reimplementation of GNU coreutils that Ubuntu…...
Firefox Android Play Integrity check hits custom ROMs
1+ week, 3+ day ago (394+ words) Change sparks concern in wider FOSS community Mozilla has added support for Google's Play Integrity API, known for blocking users of custom ROMs from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android. Per a resolved issue in Mozilla's public tracker, a…...
Proton Drive client is (finally) coming to Linux
1+ week, 4+ day ago (317+ words) Proton has confirmed it is working on a Proton Drive client for Linux desktops. The announcement slipped out as part of a broader platform update. Proton has rebuilt Drive around a new shared SDK, with a single codebase powering its…...
Hand Brake fixes 2-pass encode crashes, Web M on Linux
1+ week, 5+ day ago (298+ words) A new version of Hand Brake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. Hand Brake 1. 11. 2 is a maintenance update in the current 1. 11. x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNx HR and Pro…...
Ubuntu plans to add AI-powered voice input to all text fields
2+ week, 2+ day ago (313+ words) "Why type like an animal?", posits Canonical's VP of Engineering Ever wished you could talk in to a text field rather than type? Ubuntu 26. 10 hears you " quite literally. Canonical's VP of Engineer Jon Seager, at the Ubuntu Summit, said the…...