Linux Mint Gives First Look at New Cinnamon Theme As revealed last month, Linux Mint is working on an improved default theme for the Cinnamon desktop – and today we got our first look at what’s coming. The way Cinnamon looks in Linux Mint (the distribution) is not the way it looks if you install the Cinnamon desktop yourself on a different distro. There, assuming a theme pack is isn’t pulled in as a dependency, you’ll see the default built-in Ci… Mission Center (Linux System Monitor) Now Reports Fan Info A major new release of Mission Center, a modern system monitor app for Linux desktops, has been released. Fans of this Rust-based GTK4/libadwaita system monitoring tool (which to address the recurring elephant in the room does indeed have a user interface inspired by—now I’d argue superior to—the Windows system monitor app) will find a lot to like in the latest update. I’m not going to recap all … RTorrent 0.10 Released After Five Years of Hiatus After a five-year hiatus, the RTorrent command-line BitTorrent client is back with v0.10, bringing performance upgrades and bug fixes. The post RTorrent 0.10 Released After Five Years of Hiatus appeared first on Linux Today . Mozilla Firefox 131 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New Firefox 131 looks like an interesting update introducing temporary site permissions, such as geolocation, which will be automatically removed after one hour or when the tab is closed, and support for text fragments to allow users to link directly to a specific portion of text in a web document via a special URL fragment. The post Mozilla Firefox 131 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today . Maintainer Confidential: Challenges and Opportunities One Year On A year ago I wrote an article to give some insight into how an open source project looks behind the scenes from a maintainer’s perspective. One year on, I thought it might be interesting to share an update on that. Who I am and what the project is and does was covered previously and hasn’t […] The post Maintainer Confidential: Challenges and Opportunities One Year On appeared first on Linux.com . |
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1090 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Rhino Linux 2024.2 News: Valve seeks to improve Wayland performance, HardenedBSD partners with Protectli, Tails is merging with the Tor Project, Quantum Leap partners with the FreeBSD Foundation, Igor Ljubuncic offers tips for people who want to turn their Linux skills into an.... Raspberry Pi AI Camera takes inferencing load off the CPU Raspberry Pi has launched a camera module with AI smarts on board. But all that inferencing goodness comes at a price. Looking for all the world like a normal camera module – if ever so slightly thicker – the Raspberry Pi AI Camera is based on Sony's IMX500 Intelligent Vision Sensor, which combines a 12.3-megapixel CMOS image sensor with on-board inferencing. The Imperative of NIST-Approved Post-Quantum Resistant Algorithms for Securing Mobile Devices In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the advent of quantum computing presents both unprecedented opportunities and significant threats. As we stand on the brink of a quantum revolution, the need for robust, quantum-resistant cryptographic solutions has never been more urgent. The post The Imperative of NIST-Approved Post-Quantum Resistant Algorithms for Securing Mobile Devices appe… |