First GNOME 3.26 Development Release Out, Some Apps Ported to Meson Build System

GNOME Project's Michael Catanzaro just informed us via an email announcement that the first unstable release of the upcoming GNOME 3.26 desktop environment is out now for public testing and early adopters.

Yes, we're talking about GNOME 3.25.1, the first development in the release cycle of GNOME 3.26, which is currently scheduled to launch later this year on September 13. Being the first unstable release and all that, GNOME 3.25.1 doesn't ship with many changes, and you can check out the CORE NEWS and APPS NEWS for details.

However, it is important to mention here that this is the first release to come port some of the apps and components of the GNOME Stack to the Meson build system. Also, it looks like the GNOME Music and GNOME To-Do apps were moved to gnome-core from gnome-apps.

"This is the first release where some applications are now o... (read more)

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Oh Snap - to boldly package where no one has packaged before

Linux. The distro frontier. These are the voyages of the OSS Snap. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new packages, to seek out new stuff and new configurations, to boldly go where no one has packaged before. Engage.

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PasswordPing Ltd.'s Exposed Password and Credentials API Service

The typical online user has an average of 90 active and inactive online accounts. This exposure to threats, notes software and IT security specialist PasswordPing Ltd., helps to inform us why billions of credentials have been exposed in the past five years alone. To assist organizations and companies to screen their user accounts for known, compromised credentials, PasswordPing Ltd. more>>

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Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" Just Around the Corner, Live Images to Support UEFI

Debian Project's Steve McIntyre and Jonathan Wiltshire just informed the Debian GNU/Linux community about some of the important aspects of the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system, whose launch is imminent.

The first aspect, revealed by Debian developer Jonathan Wiltshire, is that the final release of Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" might not include Secure Boot support, which is no longer a blocker to launch the forthcoming OS. However, Secure Boot support could be implemented sometime during the lifetime of Debian 9.

"We appreciate that this will be a disappointment to many users and developers. However, we need to balance that with the limited time available for the volunteer teams working on this feature, and the risk of bugs being introduced through rushed development," said Jonathan Wiltshire in a mailing list announcement.

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Mesa 17.0.5 to Improve RadeonSI, Intel i965 and Vulkan Drivers for Linux Gaming

Andres Gomez was pleased to announce that a Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the upcoming Mesa 17.0.5 maintenance update to the stable Mesa 17.0 series is out, giving us a glimpse over the new improvements and bug fixes.

Mesa 17.0.5 should be available as soon as today, and it's the fifth bugfix release in the series, coming about two weeks after the launch of Mesa 17.0.4, which added various improvements to the Intel OpenGL and ANV Vulkan drivers, as well as RadeonSI, Radeon RADV Vulkan, Nouveau, Galleon, and Freedreno drivers.

There are 38 queued changes and 7 nominated (outstanding) in the changelog attached at the end of the article, showing us that the Intel ANV Vulkan driver received some attention during this cycle, including some corrections for flusing the cache for both texture and VF, and support for... (read more)

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Ubuntu Devs Work on Rebasing Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) to Linux Kernel 4.11

It looks like the Ubuntu Kernel team is back at work after taking a short break, and they recently published another installation of their bi-weekly newsletter to inform the Ubuntu Linux community about what to expect in the coming weeks.

Now that the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system is open for development, and that daily build ISO images are already available for download, it's time to have a look under the hood and see what to expect from the Ubuntu Kernel team.

Long story short, and as expected, the first Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) daily builds are based on the repositories of the current stable release of the popular OS, namely Ubunt... (read more)

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Sending SMS from Linux Just Got Easier with latest Indicator KDE Connect Update

Sending a text message from the Linux desktop just got a wee bit easier in the latest update to Indicator KDE Connect.  The popular mobile integration applet, which makes the full feature set of KDE Connect accessible on non-Plasma desktops like Unity and GNOME, is now able to integrate with your Google Contacts.   So, if you happen to be a big […]

This post, Sending SMS from Linux Just Got Easier with latest Indicator KDE Connect Update, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

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