Category:2019 News Archive
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- KDEs GSOC students are making Good Progress towards Many Exciting Improvements
- KDevelop 5.4 released
- Kernel 5.2-rc1 is Released with A Lot of Changes and Potential Performance Improvements
- Kernel 5.3.9 And Other Stable Series Linux Kernels Are Released With Important Realtek Wifi Vulnerability Fix
- Kernel 5.4.1 And 5.3.14 Are Released Making Linux Users With Intel iGPUs Finally Able To Use 5.3-Series Kernels
- KernelShark 1.0 released
- Krita 4.2.0 released with over 1000+ bugfixes and many new functions
- Krita 4.2.1 released
- Krita 4.2.2 is out
- Krita Gets $25,000 From Epic Games
- KStars 3.3.1 released
- KStars v3.2.3 is released with configurable The Sky Map Cursor
- KStars v3.3.7 Released With Integrated Astrometric Plate Solver
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- Laptops with Intel-based 10nm Ice Lake CPUs to be available mid-November
- Latte Dock 0.9 for KDE Plasma released
- LibreOffice 6.4 RC1 Is Available With A New QR-Code Generator, Better Performance And Improved MsOffice Compatibility
- Libxfce4ui 4.15.0 Is Released, Drops GTK2 Support
- Linus Still Based and Caches Are Faster than Direct IO
- Linux 5.1 released after 13k code commits since 5.0
- Linux 5.1.1 released
- Linux 5.1.5 released with IMPORTANT Fix for Users of Encrypted LVM volumes on SSDs
- Linux 5.4 rc1 is released
- Linux 5.5-rc4 Released With Few Changes
- Linux 5.6 Will Likely Have USB 4 Support
- Linux compilation benchmark on Ryzen 2600 with and without Red LED fan
- Linux Distributions Running On Intel CPUs Are About To Get A Lot Slower
- Linux Kernel 3.16.69 released
- Linux Kernel 5.0.15 broke Support for all Older Bluetooth Devices and there's no fix in sight
- Linux Kernel 5.2 can't into Chromium VAAPI accelerated video on Intel i915
- Linux Kernel 5.2 rc7 Released using a Shoe-String Internet Connection
- Linux Kernel 5.2-rc2 released
- Linux Kernel 5.2-rc3 released
- Linux Kernel 5.3 is released
- Linux Kernel 5.3 rc8 is released and 5.3 final is coming soon
- Linux Kernel 5.3-rc2 released
- Linux Kernel 5.3-rc3 released
- Linux Kernel 5.3-rc4 released
- Linux Kernel 5.3rc1 and new Stable branch Kernels released
- Linux Kernel 5.5 "Kleptomaniac Octopus" RC1 Is Released With Live Patching, Reworked Fair Scheduler And More
- Linux Kernel 5.5 RC2 Is Released
- Linux Kernel Could Support Automatic Closing Of CD/DVD Drive Trays On Mount (Again)
- Linux Kernel Developers are leveraging GPU vendors into Doing the Right Thing
- Linux Kernel Disables Coffee Lakes HPET On The Grounds That It Is "Unreliable"
- Linux Kernel To Get CPU Idle Cooling Solution
- Linux Kernel v5.4 Is Released
- Linux kernel version 5.2 released big performance improvements
- Linux Kernels 5.4.5 and 5.3.18 Are Released With Security-Related Networking Fixes
- Linux market share on Steam grew by a whopping 0.02% in May
- Linux marketshare on Steam is Dropping Like A Stone
- Linux Steam market share is on the rise
- Linux Version Of Microsoft Teams Is Now Available
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- Mageia 7 RC released
- Manjaro Linux will not be installing the proprietary FreeOffice by default
- Memory Chips Will See "Strong Demand" (=Rising Prices) In 2020
- Mesa 19.0.8 released with fix for major blunder in 19.0.7
- Mesa 19.1.0 is now available
- Mesa 19.1.0 RC 5 and stable branch 19.0.6 available, 19.1.0 final is delayed
- Mesa 19.1.0 rc1 released with many new OpenGL features
- Mesa 19.1.1 and 19.0.7 are now available
- Mesa 19.1.2 released
- Mesa 19.1.3 released
- Mesa 19.1.4 is now available with fixes for hair oddities in Max Payne 3 on AMD/RADV
- Mesa 19.2 is released with support for AMD Navi GPUs
- Mesa 19.2 rc2 released with support for Navi and "unreleased" AMD chip
- Mesa 19.2.3 And 19.3-rc2 Are Now Available
- Mesa 19.2.4 Emergency Release Available
- Mesa 19.2.6 And 19.3.0rc4 Are Available
- Mesa 19.2.8 And 19.3.1 Are Released With Minor Fixes
- Mesa 19.3.0 Is Released With ACO shader compiler for AMD GPUs And OpenGL 4.6 Support
- Mesa 19.3.0 Will Be Released Next Week
- Mesa 19.3.0-rc1 Released With New Vulkan Features
- Mesa 3d 19.2 Release Plan Announced
- Microarchitectural Data Sampling: The Latest Side-Channel Vulnerability In Intel CPUs
- Microsoft Edge To Shake Up The Browser Competition On The GNU/Linux Desktop
- Microsoft GitHub launches "Sponsors" feature allowing users to Pay Open Source Developers
- Microsoft Removes Christmas Hat from MIT Licensed VS Code, Closes Issue Tracker To Silence Complaints
- Microsoft Windows no longer trusts built-in SSD encryption and neither should you
- Microsoft's Terms of Service Updated to be even more Draconian
- Minor flaw found in Linux's RDS implementation
- Momentum Botnet Infects Linux-based Routers And Smart Devices, Uses Them For DDoS Attacks
- Most popular LinuxReviews articles in May 2019
- Mozilla certificate screw-up disables all extensions, including those installed in people's browsers
- Mozilla's Firefox 68 vs Firefox 68 from Fedora: No difference. At all.
- Mpv 0.31.0 Is Released
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- New Kernels released and You Must Upgrade NOW
- New Kernels, 5.1.7, 5.0.21 and 4.19.48 are released
- New Kernels: 4.14.124, 4.19.49, 5.1.8 and 5.2-RC4. And as always, You Must Upgrade NOW
- New Kernels: 4.4.181, 4.9.181, 4.14.125, 4.19.50, 5.1.9 - just two days after the last kernels releases. And as always, You Must Upgrade NOW
- New Kernels: 5.1.16, 4.19.57 and 4.14.132 released with mostly network-related fixes
- New Kernels: 5.2-rc5, 5.1.10, 4.19.51 and 4.14.126 released
- New Kernels: 5.2-rc6 and stable branch kernels 5.1.14 and 4.19.55 are now available with patch fixing Steam
- New Older Stable-Branch Kernels released with Steam fix: 4.4.184, 4.9.184 and 4.14.131 are now available
- New Stable Kernel Series Releases 4.4.182, 4.9.182, 4.14.127, 4.19.52 and 5.1.11 Fixes Serious TCP Networking Vulnerabilities
- New stable kernels: 5.3.6, 4.19.79 and 4.14.149 are now available
- New Stable-Series Linux Kernels 5.4.3, 5.3.16 and 4.19.89 Fixes KVM Crash Vulnerability
- New Steam Clients Available with Faster Game Downloads
- New WJSN album "For The Summer" coming in 7 days
- New Xfce desktop, appfinder, configuration tool and panel released
- Nvidia Could Be Changing Their Hostile Attitude Towards Free Software Drivers
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- Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Updates Add Network Booting and USB 3.0 Power Saving For Lower Temperatures
- RDRAND stops returning random values on older AMD CPUs after suspend
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with focus on "the cloud" is now available
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Beta Available
- Revisiting Intel CPU bug workarounds with Linux Kernel 5.2
- Richard Stallman has resigned from his position as president of the Free Software Foundation
- Richard Stallman takes on Switzerland
- Richard Stallman to Visit Germany in July
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- Second Mesa 19.1.0 release candidate is now available with Radeon and Intel fixes and two bugs blocking a final release
- Second print edition of "The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction" by William Shotts is now available in stores
- Serious Buffer Overflow Vulnerability In The Bitcoin Core Client Disclosed
- SimpleMailQt V2.0.0-beta 1 Is Released With Asynchronous Support
- Snek version 1.0 Announced for Python-Like programming on Tiny Embedded Systems
- South Korean Government and Army will be switching to Linux
- Steam Client Beta 1557957375 released with several Linux improvements
- Steam's November Numbers Show Linux Gaming To Be Stagnant
- Steams Hardware Survey for October Indicates Linux Gaming Growth Is Not Happening
- Steams hardware survey numbers for September 2019 show GNU/Linux gaming stagnation
- Sudo bug lets users who are allowed to run commands as another user to run them as root instead
- Sunmi's fabulous song "Gashina" has reached 100 million views on YouTube
- SuperTuxKart 1.1 could be released "anytime"
- SuperTuxKart 1.1 RC1 Is Released With Improved Online Play, Emjois and High-Resolution UI Scaling
- Support for new Power-Saving CPU Instructions in a future Low-Power Mobile 10mm CPU Architecture from Intel code-named "Tremont" is being added to the Linux Kernel
- SUSE has appointed Melissa Di Donato as new CEO
- Systemd Opened Security Hole In Linux, VPNs Could Be Compromised
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- The American Senate Wants Secure Encryption With Government Backdoors
- The BROWSER Act could give Americans Privacy Protections similar to those the EUs GDPR legislation guarantees
- The Combined Performance Penalty of Intel CPU bugs Zombieload, Meltdown, Spectre and L1TF
- The fight for contant blockers in Chrome (and Chromium) is far from over
- The Free Software Foundation is working to gain a "shared understanding" with the GNU Project
- The GNU Guix distribution is moving from gzip to lzip
- The Japanese have NTP synchronized wall clocks
- The Linux Kernel can Kill Your PC-Speaker
- The Linux Kernel fix for SACK vulnerabilities broke Steam
- The Linux kernel will not get support for the fsgsbase instructions from Intel any time soon
- The South Korean government is to switching to Linux
- The Tor network is either under attack by or very popular in Iran
- The Web is back to One Standard.. sort of
- The Xfce team is proud to announce the release of Thunar 1.8.5
- Third Mesa 19.1.0 release candidate and new stable version available
- Thunar 1.6.18 marks the end of Xfce 4.12
- Thunar 1.8.10 Released With Plenty Of Bug-Fixes
- Thunar 1.8.11 "Emergency" Release Available, Fixes Startup Crashes on FreeBSD, Fedora and Gentoo
- Thunar 1.8.8 released
- Thunderbird 60.7.2 Security Release Available, Upgrade if you use Thunderbird
- Tor Snowflake launched as a censorship countermeasure for the The Onion Router network
- Total War: THREE KINGDOMS from Feral Interactive now available
- Tracklist for WJSN's upcoming album "For The Summer" revealed
- Treasure-trove of internal Google documents showing censorship and bias leaked by insider
- TSMC Claims They Are "On Track" To Deliver 3nm Chips in 2022
- Twitter Posts Huge Revenue And Guidance Misses As The Free Software Based Fediverse Keeps On Growing
- Two New Motherboards FSF Certificed As Freedom-Respecting: Talos II Mainboard and Talos II Lite
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- Ubuntu bows to Steam and Wine pressure: Will keep supporting "key" 32-bit libraries one more version
- US Senators Shocked To Learn IPs Can Be Used For GeoLocation
- User-friendly XMPP client Kaidan 0.4.1 released
- Users of older Lenovo Ideapad and Yoga laptops watch out: Newer kernels will break your WIFI
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- Valve is dropping support for Steam on Ubuntu
- Valve's got a new shader compiler for AMD GPUs ready for testing
- Valve's released Proton 4.2-4 with RAGE 2 crash fix
- Version 0.4.0 of the KDE-focused Music Player Elisa Released
- Version 0.4.1 of the user-friendly KDE-focused Music Player Elisa Released
- Videos from the LibrePlanet 2019 conference are now available
- Virgil Griffith Arrested For Talking About The CryptoCurrency Etherium in North Korea
- VLC 3.0.7 released with a long list of Security Issues Fixed
- VLC video player has gaping security hole and there's no fix available
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- Warzone 2100 3.3 released with better graphics and high resolution monitor support
- Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Is Available For Free on GoG The Next 26 Hours
- Web Browser Performance: Chromium 79 vs Firefox 71
- Web browser showdown May 2019: Who's the fastest, Chromium vs Firefox
- Web browser showdown: Chrome 74 vs Chromium 73 vs Firefox 66
- Web Browser Showdown: Firefox 68 vs Chromium 75 vs Firefox Nightly
- WebKitGTK 2.25.1 released!
- Windows users of KDE applications: Do not uninstall.exe
- Wine 4.0.1 is now available
- Wine 4.0.3 Released With 54 Bug-fixes
- Wine 4.12 released with Support for Plug and Play devices drivers and Multi-Monitor Setups
- Wine 4.21 Is Released With DHCP HTTP Proxy Configuration
- Wine 5.0-rc1 Is Released. This Ends Active Development, Feature-Freeze And Bug-Fixes Ahead
- Worms exploiting Windows Remote Desktop Vulnerabilities knock on port 3389
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- Xfburn 0.6.1 is now available
- Xfce 4.14 Released
- Xfce 4.14 scheduled for release mid-August 2019
- Xfce 4.14pre2 Released
- Xfce 4.14pre3 Released
- Xfce Cpugraph Plugin 1.0.91 released!
- Xfce file manager Thunar v1.8.7 released
- Xfce Image Viewer Ristretto 0.10.0 released
- Xfce Image Viewer Ristretto 0.8.5 released
- Xfce is now the most popular desktop (among new Manjaro Linux users)
- Xfce Screensaver 0.1.5 Now Available
- Xfce Video Player Parole v1.0.5 Is Released
- Xfce-Panel 4.14.1 is released