Night Light Scheduler is a new GNOME Shell extension that lets you control how warm your screen is throughout different parts of the evening (or day). GNOME’s built-in Night Light feature has a customisable schedule, and it lets you set a colour temperature that’s very orange, or less orange to filter out blue light. But…
Tuxedo Computers have announced plans to officially drop Ubuntu Linux for their own Tuxedo OS, as they will be moving directly to Debian. Their blog post goes over their reasoning which many Linux users will resonate with – they want to take back control of what they’re shipping on their own hardware. They’re not happy…
Sooner or later you end up with a file that should not sit around in plain text: a database dump with customer data, a document with credentials, or a backup you want to park on cloud storage you do not fully trust. Encrypting the file before it leaves your machine solves the problem, and GPG…
The German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is done with Microsoft SharePoint, ditching it for a self-hosted Nextcloud deployment that is already serving around 5,000 employees. Eventually, that number will be scaled up to 50,000 public sector workers, covering agencies ranging from ministries down to municipal offices. What’s happening? Currently, Nextcloud is handling file sharing, and features…
DistroWatch.com: LazyLinux Last Update: 2026-07-12 20:01 UTC LazyLinux is a Void-based desktop Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop and a vast collection of pre-installed software. It intends to be user-friendly and usable right after installation. The distribution ships with many popular productivity and multimedia applications, such as Brave browser, Thunderbird email client, LibreOffice…
The Harmonic Firmware Initiative “HFI” is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same…
The next release of the Cinnamon desktop and Linux Mint is finally ready for Wayland – with it no longer considered to be experimental. In their June round-up blog post, developer lead Clement Lefebvre mentioned that for the next version of Linux Mint due around Christmas time that “We worked really hard on Wayland and…
PeaZip 11.1 has been released as the latest version of the open-source, cross-platform archive manager. A key addition is read support for ZIM archives, a format widely used to distribute offline copies of large collections like Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg. Under the hood, PeaZip 11.2 updates its 7z/p7zip backend to version 26.02. The bundled PEA…
Switching between a terminal and a browser can slow down routine GitHub work. You may only need to create a pull request, check a workflow failure, or open an issue, but each task normally requires finding the right page and clicking through several screens. GitHub CLI, available through the gh command, brings these operations into…
Wine 11.13 is the latest biweekly development release for the Windows compatibility layer – bringing new features and various fixes. We also just recently had the Proton 11 stable release built with Wine 11. The highlights for Wine 11.13 are: Better support for input pointers. Improved keyboard scancode mapping on X11. …
