Linux

The latest update to open-source desktop email client Thunderbird has a tranche of improvements in tow. Thunderbird 145 now supports Microsoft Exchange via the Exchange Web Services API (EWS). Though it is currently limited to email only, support for accessing calendars and address book is expected to arrive in a... Read more

Mozilla is ebullient on the benefits AI can bring to users of the Firefox web browser, and already offers (as you may have been bugged by callouts to) a sidebar for interacting with chatbots, AI summaries, and AI-powered tab grouping. Now it’s going further, adding a new, dedicated “AI Window”... Read more

Canonical is extending support for Ubuntu’s Long Term Support (LTS) releases to 15 years. All Ubuntu LTS releases receive 5 years of standard updates, critical fixes and security patches. A further 5 years of security coverage is available by enabling Ubuntu Pro, which businesses pay for but home users can... Read more

Miracle-wm, the Mir-based tiling window manager, bolsters accessibility in its latest update. A raft of accessibility features in Mir are supported in miracle-wm 0.8.0, including slow keys, sticky keys, screen magnifier and simulated secondary click. As with everything in a tiling window manager, enabling these is done by editing a... Read more

Linux users have a new desktop antivirus option, albeit from an unlikely source: Kaspersky. The Russian cybersecurity company, whose software is banned in the USA and restricted in state and government use in other Western countries over national security concerns, has announced that its made its home security software available... Read more

Mission Center, the fancy (and yes, a little Windows-y inspired) GTK4/libadwaita system monitoring tool for Linux has been updated – but what’s new in v1.1? Well, the Services page has been overhauled. It now allows child processes and user services to be viewed, and supports filtering of services based on... Read more

It’s that time of the month again: a new version of Mozilla Firefox web browser is available — but what’s new? Well, a fair bit. Firefox 145 includes, amongst other changes, new comment/note taking tools in the built-in PDF editor, visual changes that see tabs, buttons and input fields made... Read more

Rust-based fish shell has just released a new version, landing a catch of improvement sure to reel in (I’m sorry) those seeking out a bash alternative. Fish 4.2.0 (go on; go leave the obvious comment) nets a couple of minor-ish new features — it’s already a capable shell — with... Read more

Minisforum, a Chinese company famed for selling range of mini PCs, has launched an affordable ARM-based mini workstation with UEFI boot, making it easier to run Linux distributions without the need for custom firmware or bootloaders. The MS-R1 is designed for local inference tasks, Android VM containers in Docker and... Read more

A GNOME Shell extension for tracking lunar phases on your Linux desktop, with info, a clean, minimal design - and a giant illuminated moon. You're reading ‘Phases of Moon’ Brings Lunar Tracking to GNOME Shell, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.... Read more

In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface.  We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In... Read more

The networking industry is undergoing a fundamental architectural transformation, driven by the relentless demands of cloud-scale data centers and the rise of software-defined infrastructure. At the heart of this evolution is the principle of disaggregation: the systematic unbundling of components that were once tightly integrated within proprietary, monolithic systems.  This... Read more