Numerous independently-developed GNU/Linux distributions are relying these days on the Calamares universal installer framework to provide their users with a decent, modern, and up-to-date graphical installer. If you installed well-known distros like OpenMandriva, KDE...

Oracle’s Director of Product Management Simon Coter was pleased to announce on Wednesday the release and immediate availability for download of the second VirtualBox 5.2 Beta. VirtualBox 5.2 is currently under heavy development, and...

Today, August 16, 2017, Debian, the universal, Unix-like computer operating system powered by the Linux kernel turns 24 years of existence since the late Ian Murdock first announced the Debian Project back in 1993....

Believe it or not, today’s GNOME birthday, and not any birthday, as the popular desktop environment designed for GNU/Linux distributions celebrates 20 years of existence. That’s right, 20 years ago on this day (August...

Solus Project’s Joshua Strobl informs Softpedia on Tuesday about the general availability of the Solus 3 operating system, a major release that introduces new kernel and graphics stacks, new technologies, and up-to-date components. Powered...

AMD today released a new update to its proprietary graphics driver for Linux-based operating systems, AMDGPU-PRO 17.30, which brings support for Canonical’s recently announced Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system. Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS...

Canonical’s Sergio Schvezov was pleased to announce the release of Snapcraft 2.33, a new major update of the tool that application developers can use to package their apps as Snaps for Ubuntu Linux and...

A few moments ago, GNOME Project’s Michael Catanzaro announced via an email announcement that the upcoming GNOME 3.26 desktop environment has officially entered Beta stages of development. Expected to launch earlier in the week,...

4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki‏ is informing us today about the release and immediate availability for download of the Antivirus Live CD 23.0-0.99.2 distribution. As its version number suggests, Antivirus Live CD 23.0-0.99.2 relies on...

It’s Sunday evening here in the US, which means that Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of yet another RC (Release Candidate) development snapshot of the upcoming Linux 4.13 kernel series. Last week’s...