Mozilla is FINALLY pulling the plug on 32-bit Firefox builds for Linux, a decade after Google Chrome did the same. Why now? It says they're getting hard to build.

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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Jin Asanami has announced the release of Kamuriki Linux 4.00, a major update of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution with a classic Windows-like LXQt theme and the Wine compatibility layer for running Windows applications under Linux. The release announcement (in Japanese) divulges the second installment of the new....

Euphonica is a slick new MPD client for Linux, written in Rust and GTK4/libadwaita. It's currently in beta, but testing is easier as it's finally arrived on Flathub.

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Yaru, Ubuntu's default theme, has received a refresh ahead of October's 25.10 release. The artwork drop adds new app icons, and improves theme consistency.

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In the previous article, we looked at how swap space, particularly swapping, can severely slow down Linux performance.

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We know that using Linux swap space instead of RAM (memory) can severely slow down performance.

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