Microsoft announced on Wednesday that WSLg, the Microsoft-developed WSL GUI, is finally available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel after teasing it previously. This brings official support for Linux GUI apps to run alongside Windows ones, potentially ending the need for some people to dual-boot Windows and Linux. What works? Clipboard copy/paste ✅ Sound […]
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As many are likely already aware, Fedora is RedHat’s free (in both senses) Linux distribution. It shuns proprietary software and code and instead only includes FOSS at every level from kernel to userland. Fedora 33 launched today, so let’s have a look and see what’s changed. UI Updates: GNOME: Fedora 33 ships with GNOME 3.38,
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After a couple of years of rumours, Microsoft Edge for Linux is finally available for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE in Dev Channel form from Microsoft’s website). This version of Edge will be updated on a weekly basis, with future Beta and Canary versions hopefully available soon. Bringing Edge to Linux is an important step
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Fedora comes with support for Flatpak natively, but not Canonical’s Snap. In recent years some developers (such as those of Twilio Authy) have decided to only distribute software via Snap, thankfully it is very easy to install the Snap daemon (snapd) on Fedora. To install snap, run the command: sudo dnf install snapd To enable
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Now they’re on a 4 week release cycle, a new month brings a new Firefox update. This time around the team at Mozilla is treating us to Firefox 78 and with it have brought some fairly significant changes. So, what’s new? What’s hot? Firefox 78’s headline feature is the Protections Dashboard. It includes consolidated reports
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Ikey Doherty, best known as the creator of the Solus Linux project until his departure in 2018, today announced a new distro: Serpent OS (soon to be re-branded as Serpent Linux). On the Serpent OS website (https://www.serpentos.com/about/) Doherty explains that Serpent OS is intended to be “A Truly Modern Linux Distribution” with modern architectural design
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