Posts from December 2024

COSMIC DE Alpha 4 Released, This is What’s New

Development on COSMIC, a new open-source desktop environment created by developers a Linux-based hardware company System76, continues at pace, with a 4th alpha now available. System76 said new alpha releases of the COSMIC DE would […]

5 December 2024

Mozilla Formally Unveils its Rawr-Some New Branding

Mozilla has finally unwrapped its new branding, describing the first refresh to its logo in over a decade as not merely ‘a facelift’ but an effort to lay foundations for the company’s next 25 years. […]

5 December 2024

Want to Try Tab Groups in Firefox? Here’s How

Tab groups are a nifty productivity feature already available in web browsers like Google Chrome and Vivaldi — now they’re coming to Mozilla Firefox. Except, that isn’t news, is it? Mozilla announced a series of […]

4 December 2024

Flexbar Brings Apple’s Touch Bar Back from the Dead

A new crowdfunding project aims to revive Apple’s (oft-derided) Touch Bar, but not as part of a laptop but a standalone USB device that work with Windows, macOS and Linux. It’s called Flexbar, and it’s […]

3 December 2024

Cinnamon Desktop 6.4 Brings New Look, New Features

A new version of the Cinnamon desktop environment has been released with a raft of improvements. As the flagship desktop of Linux Mint, Cinnamon 6.4 comes preinstalled in the latest Linux Mint 22.1 release. This […]

2 December 2024
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HandBrake 1.9 Brings Lossless VP9 Encoding, Intel QSV VVC Decoding

A major new update to the powerful open source video converter HandBrake is available. In the 6 months (give or take) since the HandBrake 1.8 release arrived with its GTK4 (but not libadwaita) GUI in […]

1 December 2024