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Mageia 4 Beta 2 Available For Testing

 By Andrew Powell News

Mageia 4 Beta 2 is now available for testing! For those unfamiliar with the Mageia distribution, it's a community powered fork of the commercial Mandriva distribution. Mageia was only forked back in September 2010 but has already enjoyed a nice amount of popularity and userbase. See the DistroWatch…

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Ubuntu to stick a fork in Gnome Control Centre

 By Andrew Powell News

In a move that will no doubt be unsurprising for anyone that has followed Canonical's moves with Ubuntu over the last few years, it has been confirmed that the Gnome Control Centre will indeed be forked into the "Unity Control Centre" for the popular Linux based operating system. Ubuntu…

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SteamOS Now Available!

 By Andrew Powell News

Plus: Steam Machines beta units shipped! Unless you have lived under a very large rock for the last few months, you would surely know of Valve's "Steam Machines" and it's operating system, SteamOS, Valve's own new Linux distribution. We have heard bits and pieces about both the hardware…

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Review: Salvation Prophecy

 By Andrew Powell Reviews

If you love a good space romp and shooty shooty lasers you owe it to yourself to try this one. First off It's best not to play the first half hour or so and judge the game right away. Yes, it's an indie game (made by pretty much one man, no less) and the graphics and animations won't impress anyone…

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Welcome to The Linux Rain!

 By Andrew Powell TheLinuxRain

We've launched! Wait, what is The Linux Rain, I hear you ask with a bemused expression? The Linux Rain is a new news and editorial website, based in the Land Down Under (Australia) but catering to everyone, everywhere. It focuses on all things Linux related, in particular gaming and software…

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Steam Client Update Brings Game Launch Stability

A new Steam client update improves game syncing and overlay scaling and fixes UI glitches that affect notes and screenshots.

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Linux Candy: doge – simple motd script

Linux Candy is a series of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We’re only featuring open-source software in this series.

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SWE-agent: Open-source tool uses LLMs to fix issues in GitHub repositories

By connecting powerful language models like GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 to real-world tools, the open-source tool SWE-agent allows them to autonomously perform complex tasks: from fixing bugs in live GitHub repositories and solving cybersecurity challenges, to browsing the web or executing custom workflows.

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OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Launches with Plasma 6 and New Server Edition

OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 is here featuring Linux kernel 6.14, KDE Plasma 6, GNOME 48, LXQt 2.2, and a brand new Server Edition.

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Linkerd 2.18 advances open source cloud-native service mesh

Today the project is out with Linkerd 2.18, continuing the technology’s decade-long evolution with improvements focused on operational simplicity and real-world production scenarios.

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Chimera Linux Introduces Key Bootloader Changes

Chimera Linux's updated ISO images come with Limine bootloader adoption, new arch support, and updated kernel and desktop environments.

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Wine 10.6: New Lexer, Bcrypt Enhancements, and 27 Bug Fixes

Wine 10.6 brings a new lexer for the Command Processor, PBKDF2 in Bcrypt, enhanced image metadata support, and fixes for 27 bugs.

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poddl is a cross platform command line podcast downloader

poddl is a cross platform command line podcast downloader for batch downloading all, individual, or a range of podcast episodes from an RSS feed.

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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 16 (Apr 14 – 20, 2025)

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, Manjaro 25, LXQt 2.2, VirtualBox 7.1.8, TrueNAS 25.04, and more.

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Marker: A Free and Open-Source Markdown Editor for Linux

Marker is a free and open-source markdown editor for Linux, built on GTK3. It offers a dual panel for reading and writing basic to extended markdown syntax, along with other additional features.

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