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Floating Mini Panel Gains New Vertical Orientation Option

27 October 2025 at 10:36

Floating Mini Panel GNOME extension now has a vertical panel option, an orientation which feel up (a bit of) screen space on widescreen displays.

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Rust Bug Broke Ubuntu 25.10 Automatic Update Checks

26 October 2025 at 22:29

Ubuntu 25.10's Rust-based coreutils had a bug preventing automatic updates from working. Here's what happened, why it matters, and how it was resolved.

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MX Linux 25 Release Candidate Arrives with Various Improvements and Changes

27 October 2025 at 08:35

MX Linux 25 Release Candidate

MX Linux 25 Release Candidate is now available for public beta testing based on the Debian 13 β€œTrixie” operating system series. Here's what's changed since the Beta release!

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 26th, 2025

27 October 2025 at 02:12

9to5Linux Roundup October 26th

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 26th, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.5, SuperTuxKart 1.5, VirtualBox 7.2.4, Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS daily builds, and more.

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FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated Apple ProRes Decoding

26 October 2025 at 22:37

The FFmpeg developers have added Vulkan-accelerated video decoding for Apple ProRes, implemented through shader-based hardware acceleration. The new commit, authored by averne and committed by Lynne, brings full support for all major ProRes profiles and demonstrates strong performance across different GPU platforms. Apple ProRes is a high-quality video codec commonly used in professional editing workflows. […]

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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1145

27 October 2025 at 08:08
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Linux Mint Debian Edition 7
News: AlmaLinux offers Btrfs support for fresh installs, KDE launches Plasma 6.5.0, Fedora accepts AI-written contributions, Ubuntu 25.10 fails to install automatic updates
Questions and answers: Advice for new Linux users
Released last week: Ultramarine Linux 42, OpenBSD 7.8, Clonezilla....

Development Release: MX Linux 25 RC1

27 October 2025 at 07:16
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The MX Linux team has announced the availability of the first release candidate for MX Linux 25, the upcoming major release of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution with user-friendly enhancements and the Xfce desktop (with Fluxbox and KDE Plasma variants also provided). Departing from its non-systemd stand in....
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