LinuxAdictos

  • News
  • Linux vs. Windows
  • Programs
  • Games
  • Free software
  • Resources
  • Events
    • About
Trends:
  • LineageOS 23 available

News

Green Software Foundation, a foundation created in order to produce less carbon emissions in software development

Microsoft, GitHub, Accenture and Linux Foundation have joined forces to launch the "Green Software Foundation", a body ...

Linus defends vaccination

Linus supports COVID vaccination and criticizes opponents

Linus defends vaccination against COVID. He did it on the Linux kernel developers list before messages to the contrary.

The second beta version of Android 12 has already been released

A few weeks ago Google released the first beta version of what will be the next version of Android 12 and now it has already started ...

GRUB 2.11

GRUB 2.11 will be the successor to 2.06 and will arrive in a year

GRUB 2.11 will be the next version of the boot loader used by many Linux distributions. 07-10 will be skipped to avoid zeros.

LibreOffice 7.1.4

LibreOffice 7.1.4 fixes around 80 bugs, 20% to improve compatibility with MS Office

LibreOffice 7.1.4 has arrived as the last update of the free office suite and continues to try to improve compatibility.

Krita 4.4.5

Krita 4.4.5 arrives skipping a version as the last corrective update before the next big release

Krita 4.4.5 has arrived as a last version to fix bugs before the Krita 5.0 release which will include more notable changes.

ALPACA, a new type of Man in the middle attack in HTTPS

The news was recently released by a group of researchers from various universities in Germany ...

GRUB 2.06

GRUB 2.06 is a year late, but with fixes for BootHole

GRUB 2.06 has been released, an update that includes, above all, security patches in this manager so widely used in Linux.

Collabora has improved the Wayland driver for Wine and is now compatible with Vulkan

Now after almost 7 months of work an improved version of the Wayland controller has been presented that allows you to run ...

GCC has made an update to its copyright assignment policy

The GCC Steering Committee approved a few days ago the end of the mandatory transfer of property rights to the ...

manjaro 21.0.6

Manjaro 21.0.6 arrives with KDE Gear 21.04.1 and includes Cutefish DE, but GNOME 40 still does not appear

Manjaro 21.0.6 has arrived as the last stable version of the operating system with Cutefish DE as the new desktop, but without GNOME 40.

Website crash

Website crash. What are content delivery networks

The website crash that occurred this Tuesday is a good excuse to learn about the role of content delivery networks

GNOME 40.2

GNOME 40.2 comes with screen sharing improvements and other fixes

GNOME 40.2 has arrived as the last maintenance version of this famous desktop, improving screencasting and correcting bugs.

WINE 6.0.1 Stable

WINE 6.0.1 adds support for the Apple A1 and adds general fixes

WINE 6.0.1 has arrived as the last stable version of the software with support for WINE64 on computers with Apple's M1 processor.

The threat of ransomware

Ransomware threat is the FBI's new concern

Ransomware is malicious computer code that encrypts the content of attacked computers. It is created and inoculated by ...

No Facebook for Trump

No Facebook for Donald Trump, at least for two more years.

Without Facebook for Trump for two more years, the former president will be left out of the social network and its subsidiaries by decision of the company.

PyTorch

PyTorch, an open source framework Facebook is entrusting its AI models to

Facebook announced a few days ago that it is betting on PyTorch as its default artificial intelligence framework ...

The web giants want to standardize web extensions

Apple, Mozilla, Google and Microsoft have joined forces in order to support extension developers ...

Apple and Chinese government

Apple and Chinese government. The New York Times denounces their collusion

Users have to make a constant balance between benefits and privacy. I started this article writing on my mobile ...

internal leaks about oracle

Internal leaks on Oracle speak of a "culture of fear"

Various internal leaks about Oracle are being published by the Business Insider portal. They speak of a "culture of fear"

HarmonyOS

Huawei has already started with the replacement of Android by Harmony OS in its devices

Huawei has announced its intention to migrate around 100 different models of originally equipped smartphones ...

WINE 6.10

WINE 6.10 arrives with Mono 6.2.0 and more than 300 changes

WINE 6.10 has arrived as the latest development version of the software with the Mono engine updated to v6.2.0 as the most prominent change.

Valve Steam portable console

Valve works on a portable Linux-based console

Valve is working on a new project that is not known much, but it seems to be a portable Steam console with Linux

Prosus acquired Stack Overflow for $ 1.8 billion

In a blog post Prosus NV made the big announcement that they have acquired Stack Overflow a community ...

Librem has already started shipping its phones made in the United States

After a few months of delay, the manufacturer announced that it is starting with shipments of the Librem 5 USA ...

Microsoft returns to the interest of creating an accounting service powered by blockchain

Several days ago Microsoft presented a new highly secure service for the management of confidential data records ...

Columbia sues Amazon

Columbia sues Amazon accusing it of monopolistic practices

The District of Columbia sues Amazon. A letter from the Attorney General describes the anti-competitive practices and requests measures.

AMD Threadripper

AMD Threadripper 25% faster on Ubuntu than on Windows

Yes that's how it is. If you have an AMD Threadripper you will get an average of 25% more performance in Ubuntu than in Windows ...

Blender 2.93LTS

Blender 2.93 arrives as a new LTS version with another group of outstanding news

Blender 2.93 has arrived as a new Long Term Support version adding a good group of new features to improve the software.

Slimbook News

Slimbook: Brings You More Fresh News

The Spanish firm Slimbook brings interesting news with a new miniPC and new apps for your Linux distro

openSUSE 15.3 Leap available

openSUSE Leap 15.3 available and looking for CentOS users

From Germany it was announced that openSUSE 15.3 is now available. The project aims strongly to be a replacement for CentOS

Option to disable FLoC

Do you use Google Chrome and do not want to leave it or have its FLoC spy on you? So you can deactivate it

In the future, Google will allow to disable Chrome's FLoC, but it is an option that is hidden to make things a bit difficult.

Kali Linux 2021.2

Kali Linux 2021.2 introduces Kaboxer, Kali-Tweaks and more tools in its second version of 2021

Kali Linux 2021.2 is the second version of the ethical hacking operating system and adds more tools to check security.

NOTE Studio 27.0

OBS Studio 27.0 arrives with full support for Wayland as the main attraction for Linux users

After some time in development, OBS Studio 27.0 has arrived, and Linux users in Wayland will now be able to record their screens with guarantees.

Glimpse is discontinued… is it worth supporting forks created on a whim?

The developers of Glimpse, have decided to stop development and move the repositories on GitHub to the archive category ...

Firefox translation tool

Mozilla works on a native page translation system for Firefox

Mozilla is working on a native page translation system for Firefox, so extensions would no longer be necessary.

Firefox 89

Firefox 89 arrives with the long-awaited new design and many improvements in the version for macOS

Firefox 89 has arrived with a completely renewed design that receives the name of Proton, and other important novelties in macOS

Cinnamon 5.0

Cinnamon 5.0 arrives improving efficiency, support for Flatpak packages and other new features

Cinnamon 5.0 has come with news such as improvements when updating Spices or support for Flatpak applications.

JingOS

JingOS 0.9 arrives full of improvements, such as adaptive interface, but it is still only for x86

JingOS 0.9 has come with outstanding novelties such as the adaptive design or new gestures for the mouse for those who use it with a PC.

Linux Mint 20.2

Linux Mint 20.2 will be called Uma, will arrive in July and will include an app to rename batch files

Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 20.0, a version that will receive the code name of Uma and will include new apps.

Alibaba released PolarDB source code

Alibaba announced a few days ago that they have made the decision to release the source code of "PolarDB" which is based ...

Archinstall on Arch Linux

Archinstall 2.2.0 comes with more profiles, ability to change kernel parameters and more

Arch Linux developers recently announced the release of the new version of the Archinstall 2.2.0 installer ...

ecosystem

Microsoft's OpenJDK version is now available

Microsoft's OpenJDK is designed to help business developers create their own software, but also to help ...

Chrome

Google boasts a 23% speed increase in Chrome after code optimization 

Google released a few days ago (after the release of the latest version of Chrome) technical information about two new ...

Databricks Introduces Delta Sharing, an Open Source Protocol for Secure Data Sharing

Databricks, the inventor and maintainer of Apache Spark, presented several innovations for its Unified Analytics Platform at his conference ...

Libera.Chat and Linux

The Linux community abandons the Freenode network (IRC) in favor of Libera

The Linux community is migrating their chats to Libera. Until now, most used Freenode, but recent changes force them to change.

The Telegraph vs. Wikipedia

The Telegraph vs. Wikipedia. He qualifies it as "wokepedia"

Wikipedia became the most popular reference resource in the world. In fact, I consulted her to get some ...

Half-Double, a new type of RowHammer attack in DRAM

A few days ago Google researchers unveiled a new RowHammer attack technique called "Half-Double" ...

Inkscape 1.1

Inkscape 1.1 arrives a year after the first stable version loaded with news

Inkscape 1.1 has arrived more than a year after the previous version and it has made it full of new features that we will verify since its inception.

Chrome 91

Chrome 91 comes with support for WebSocket requests over HTTP / 2 and improvements for developers

Chrome 91 has arrived without very notable news for users, but it introduces tools that developers will take advantage of.

Fuchsia OS

Fuchsia OS is here, but probably not how you expected

Google has announced the launch of Fuchsia OS, but initially it will only be used in devices for the Internet of Things.

shutter 0.96

Shutter could return to Ubuntu repositories thanks to the changes introduced in v0.96 of the software

Shutter 0.96 has arrived without really notable changes, but with some important ones that would allow it to return to the Ubuntu PPAs.

Android on the PineTab with GloDroid

GloDroid 0.6.1 already allows Android to be installed on the PineTab, but with two important shortcomings

GloDroid 0.6.1 has been launched and among its most outstanding novelties we have that it can already be used in the PineTab, although not 100%.

Guido van Rossum says Python 4.0 may never arrive

Guido van Rossum (the creator of the Python programming language), commented a few days ago in an interview that it was very difficult ...

The new version of AV Linux MX Edition 2021.05.22 has already been released, one of the few distros that still has support for 32 bits

A few days ago the release of the new version AV Linux MX Edition 2021.05.22 was announced, which is a popular distribution ...

This XDG problem will be fixed soon

KDE will fix the XDG bug that prevents changing the Telegram download path

KDE has ensured that it already has a solution for the XDG bug that prevents choosing a different download path in Telegram and other apps.

WINE 6.9

WINE 6.9 arrives with the WPCAP Library converted to PE and more than 300 changes

WINE 6.9 has arrived as the latest development version of the software with the WPCAP library converted to PE and more than 300 changes.

chrome

Chrome already has an RSS client, changes in User-Agent and the password manager

Google recently released a number of changes that have been introduced as experimental functions within the "Canary" branch ...

W3C has published the first drafts of the WebGPU standard

The W3C recently released the first draft of the WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL) specifications ...

manjaro 21.0.5

Manjaro 21.0.5, new stable version without traces of GNOME 40. Plasma 5.21.5 has arrived

Manjaro 21.0.5 has arrived with Plasma 5.21.5, but the GNOME edition continues with Shell 3.38. Yes they have updated other important packages.

Ubuntu lock screen

Update if you're not using the latest version of Ubuntu - they might skip the lock screen

Canonical has fixed a bug in Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10 that allowed bypassing the lock screen without the password.

China vs. Bitcoin

China against Bitcoin. Does the bubble end?

Bitcoin is like cats. Either you hate it or you love it, but it leaves no one indifferent. For now,…

Pluto TV adds two new channels: list rises to 62

Pluto TV adds two new content channels to its streaming platform and already adds 62 different channels to its library

Plasma 5.22 beta

Plasma 5.22 beta, now available, says goodbye to KSysGuard and introduces stability and usability changes

The KDE project has released Plasma 5.21.90, the numbering that Plasma 5.22 beta receives, with changes such as the new system monitor.

Chrome OS 90

Chrome OS 90 is a bit late for some devices, but with support for Android 11

Chrome OS 90 is now available, and it comes with the main novelty of support for Android 11, although the performance does not seem the best.

vulnerability

They found vulnerabilities in the eBPF subsystem that allow code execution at the kernel level 

We recently shared here on the blog the news about the interest that Microsoft has shown in the eBPF subsystem ...

JingPad A1 Specifications

The JingPad A1 will start at $ 549 for the WiFi-only version.

The starting price of the JingPad A1 tablet has been announced and, if it delivers on its promise, it could be the tablet we all expected.

Microsoft has prepared an implementation of eBPF for Windows

eBPF provides a bytecode interpreter built into the kernel for creating user space loaded network drivers ...

ibm-logo

CodeNet, an IBM project for machine learning systems 

IBM recently unveiled its new project called "CodeNet" which aims to provide researchers ...

Kodi 19.1

Kodi 19.1 arrives correcting the first bugs of the Matrix, which are not few because it is a new series

Kodi 19.1 has arrived as the Matrix's first maintenance update to fix the many bugs introduced in this series.

Linux 5.10 LTS supported for 6 years

Resolved doubt: Linux 5.10 LTS will be supported for 6 years, and no less as it had been said in the beginning

Finally it has been decided that Linux 5.10 LTS is supported for 5 years, and no less as it had been debated for a long time.

VLC 3.0.13

VLC 3.0.13 arrives improving the support for MP4 and HLS streams

VLC 3.0.13 has arrived improving support for HLS content streams and adding security fixes, among other things.

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order free on Google Stadia Pro

If you like the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, then you are in luck, as it is on sale at Stadia

WINE 6.8

WINE 6.8 comes with support for the Map object in JavaScript and more than 300 changes

WINE 6.8 has arrived as the latest development version of Windows software emulation software on operating systems such as Linux.

About the OpenVax project

About the OpenVax project. An alternative to patent suspension

In recent days the possibility of suspending the patents granted to the developers of ...

/ e / OS

/ e / OS: a mobile system to get rid of Google

If you want your privacy to be respected and get rid of Google services on your mobile device, try / e / OS

manjaro 21.0.4

Manjaro 21.0.4 arrives updating packages, but GNOME 40 is not among them

Manjaro 21.0.4 has arrived as the last stable version of the system updating a few packages and keeping GNOME 3.38 in this edition.

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds talks about commercial users of open source code

Last week, Linus Torvalds followed up with an extensive email interview with Jeremy Andrews ...

LibreOffice 7.1.3

LibreOffice 7.1.3 has arrived fixing more than 100 bugs

The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 7.1.3, a maintenance update that has fixed over a hundred bugs.

Discord logo

Sony Interactive Entertainment Announces Investment in Discord

The hottest show in the gaming world is called Discord, and now Sony Interactive Entertainment announces an investment in it

Patches of Discord

Patches of Discord. What the Technical Advisory Council found

A few days ago it became known that two members of the University of Minnesota had been deliberately inserting patches with problems ...

Firefox 88.0.1

Update your browser to Firefox 88.0.1 if you were having problems with protected content

Mozilla has released Firefox 88.0.1, and its new features include a patch to play previously purchased Widevine content.

GOG has important video game offers waiting for you

If you like the world of gaming, you should know these offers that GOG has that are waiting for you

GNOME 3.38.6

GNOME 3.38.6 arrives fixing bugs and closures for the desktop that will continue to use Ubuntu until October

GNOME 3.38.6 has come as a spot update to make things better for Ubuntu 21.04 users who have stayed in this series.

Trump would get his Facebook back

Trump would recover his Facebook by decision of an external committee

Earlier this year, at Linux Addicts we talked a lot about the social media ban on Donald Trump. Now…

opensuse

openSUSE Leap 15.3: RC has been released for testing now

If you want to get ahead of the final release of openSUSE Leap 15.3 and test what's new, or help report bugs, try the RC now

Specter logo

Specter: a new threat variant and its solution is to affect the performance of your CPU

A new variant of Specter returns to be the terror of your system's security. The vulnerability can be patched, but ...

Cinnamon 5 on Linux Mint

Linux Mint tells us for the first time about Cinnamon 5, but also about Warpinator for Android and that they are in Shells

The main Linux Mint developer was surprised to see Warpinator on Google Play and told us about Cinnamon 5.

vulnerability

A vulnerability has been identified in Composer that compromises the Packagist PHP repository

A few days ago the news broke that a critical vulnerability has been identified in Composer ...

Zero-Click, the exploit used by a drone to hack a Tesla 

Two cybersecurity experts recently announced that they managed to open the doors of a Tesla remotely, using a drone

Vivaldi 3.8

Vivaldi 3.8 ends its rejection of FLoC and adds its own "I don't care about cookies"

Vivaldi 3.8 has arrived with the main novelty of having an integrated function that acts as the I Don't Care About Cookies extension.

They detected a vulnerability in the kernel that could allow the theft of information

Researchers at Cisco Talos released a vulnerability in the Linux kernel a few days ago that can be exploited to steal data

Microsoft, Google and ARM join the Bytecode Alliance to improve WebAssembly development

WebAssembly has been touted as a virtual instruction set architecture with many use cases ...

manjaro 21.0.3

Manjaro 21.0.3 now lets you install Linux 5.12 in all its editions and KDE Gear 21.04 comes to KDE

Manjaro 21.0.3 has arrived with Linux 5.12, a new set of apps in the KDE edition and GNOME will continue with the GNOME 40 shell.

Kdenlive 21.04 transcription feature

Kdenlive 21.04 comes with a new speech-to-text option, usability improvements and more than 500 bug fixes

The K project has announced the release of Kdenlive 21.04, a new version with major enhancements such as speech to text.

hack

RotaJakiro: new Linux malware disguised as systemd process

Research Lab 360 Netlab announced the identification of a new malware for Linux, codenamed RotaJakiro

Linux

Linux 5.12 comes with many support improvements, drivers, official support for N64 and more

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 5.12, version in which of the changes ...

Microsoft begins testing support for running Linux GUI applications on Windows

Microsoft announced a few days ago the start of testing the ability to run Linux-based GUI applications in WSL2-based environments.

Fedora 34

Fedora 34 arrives after a week of delay with GNOME 40 as its main attraction

It took longer than expected, but Fedora 34 is now available for download and installation, with GNOME 40 as the graphical environment.

vulnerability

Malicious code compromises HashiCorp's PGP key

HashiCorp, a company recognized for the development of open toolkits such as Vagrant, Packer, Nomad and Terraform ...

previous publications
Upcoming posts
↑
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Telegram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS Email
  • RSS feed
  • About
  • Editorial team
  • ETHICS COMMITTEE
  • Become editor
  • Legal Notice
  • License
  • Advertising
  • Contact
CLOSE