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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 16th of April 2021 08:17:21 PM Filed under
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Kate Editor Set to Become KDE’s Answer to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code

Submitted by itsfoss on Friday 16th of April 2021 10:49:49 AM Filed under
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Remember Kate? It's the default text editor in KDE Plasma environment and it is going to become a lot more awesome.
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Best Grammar and Spell Check Apps for Linux

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 16th of April 2021 03:43:36 AM Filed under
Software

This article will cover a list of useful grammar and spelling correction tools available for Linux. These applications mainly provide support for English language with a few of them having options for other languages as well. Note that you can use integrated spell checkers in applications like LibreOffice, Chrome, FireFox, AbiWord etc. to get correct spellings for your text based content. This article, however, mainly focuses on standalone spell checker applications that give you much more freedom to parse and fix spellings in your content and work with multiple applications.

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Proprietary Software Leftovers (Chrome and ProtonMail)

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of April 2021 08:54:52 PM Filed under
Software
  • Stable Channel Update for Desktop

    The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 90 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

    Chrome 90.0.4430.72 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 90.

  • Chrome 90 Released With AV1 Encode, New APIs

    Google officially promoted Chrome 90 to its stable channel today as the latest feature update to their cross-platform web browser.

    Exciting us the most with Chrome 90 is AV1 encode support now in place with the main use-case being for WebRTC usage. Chrome is making use of the reference libaom encoder for CPU-based AV1 encoding and with powerful enough hardware can be used for real-time video conferencing.

  • ProtonMail Users can Now Access Proton Calendar (beta) for Free

    ProtonMail is one of the best secure email services out there. While alternatives like Tutanota already offer a calendar feature, ProtonMail did not offer it for all the users.

    The calendar feature (in beta) was limited to paid users. Recently, in an announcement, ProtonMail has made it accessible for all users for free.

    It is worth noting that it is still in beta but accessible to more users.

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gThumb Image Viewer 3.11.3 Adds JPEG XL (.jxl) Support [Ubuntu PPA]

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of April 2021 06:35:37 PM Filed under
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GNOME

gThumb, GNOME image viewer and organizer, released version 3.11.3 a few days ago. Here?s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.10 via PPA.

gThumb 3.11.3 adds support for JPEG XL ? the next generation image coding standard.

JPEG XL (.jxl) is based on ideas from Google?s Pik format and Cloudinary?s FUIF format. It is the next-generation, general-purpose image compression codec by the JPEG committee. Some popular apps, e.g., ImageMagick, XnView MP, have already added support for the image format.

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Daniel Berrange: ANNOUNCE: gtk-vnc release 1.2.0 available

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of April 2021 03:03:46 PM Filed under
Software

I’m pleased to announce a new release of GTK-VNC, version 1.2.0.

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9 Best Email Client Apps for Linux distros such as Ubuntu in 2021

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 14th of April 2021 07:46:59 PM Filed under
Linux
Software

We already have instant chat applications to run in a browser, however, still, email is the indispensable medium of communication. And that’s why Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, and other such services are so popular. However, the one thing that is common between most email service providers is they all provide a web-based client to let users use their services with the help of the internet and browser. Hence, you cannot surf your email offline until you are not using some Email client that fetches and store emails for offline view. Furthermore, organizations that are using their in-house or cloud-based mail server, their employees, or users also require mail client software to access emails such as Outlook and Thunderbird which are common ones.

Another thing why Email clients are still the best choice because when it comes to managing email across multiple accounts popular mail service provider’s webmail clients running in the browser usually only support a single email account and do not allow the management of mail accounts from other providers.

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Display Keystrokes And Mouse Clicks In Screencasts Using KmCaster

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 14th of April 2021 05:55:15 PM Filed under
Software

KmCaster is a Java tool for showing the keyboard and mouse events on the screen, useful for teaching / screencasts.
Using it, every keystroke and mouse click is shown on the screen, so you don't have to mention what you're typing when creating a screencast or when teaching students.

For now, the application only works on X11. Getting it to work on Wayland depends on the JNativeKeyHook library, which is used by KmCaster, getting Wayland support. You can track this here. If you're looking for an application that shows your keystrokes on the screen which works with Wayland, check out Show Me The Key.

KmCaster comes with a user interface similar to Key-mon, which hasn't been updated since 2015. The GUI doesn't have any options - you just run KmCaster, and you can start using it to show what keyboard keys and mouse buttons you're pressing. There are various command line options available though (details further down this article).

There are also plans to add a configuration file, from where you'll be able to specify the font face and color, on-screen location, and more.

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Ventoy Bootable USB Creator Adds Persistence Support For Arch Linux And Fedora

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 14th of April 2021 05:46:27 PM Filed under
Software

Ventoy, a tool to create a bootable USB drive by simply copying the ISO to the USB, has been updated to version 1.0.40, bringing support for creating persistent USB drives for Fedora and Arch Linux (including ArchMan, ArchBang, BlackArch, etc.).

Ventoy is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux, and it can create bootable USB drives containing Linux and Windows ISO files.

You need to install Ventoy to a USB drive, then every time you want to create a bootable USB drive, all you have to do is copy the ISO to the USB. There's no need to format the USB drive. You can copy as many ISO files as you wish (even combined Windows and Linux ISOs), and when booting from the USB, Ventoy shows a list of available ISO files, allowing you to boot from the one you select.

What's more, since you don't need to format the USB drive, you can continue to use it for other purposes. So you can copy other files to the USB, and it won't interfere with Ventoy.

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Curl: Release, Changelog, and Scripting

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 14th of April 2021 10:42:18 AM Filed under
Software
Web
  • Daniel Stenberg: curl 7.76.1 – h2 works again

    I’m happy to once again present a new curl release to the world. This time we decided to cut the release cycle short and do a quick patch release only two weeks since the previous release. The primary reason was the rather annoying and embarrassing HTTP/2 bug. See below for all the details.

  • Daniel Stenberg: talking curl on changelog again

    We have almost a tradition now, me and the duo Jerod and Adam of the Changelog podcast. We talk curl and related stuff every three years. Back in 2015 we started out in episode 153 and we did the second one in episode 299 in 2018.

  • Develop a Linux command-line Tool to Track and Plot Covid-19 Stats

    It’s been over a year and we are still fighting with the pandemic at almost every aspect of our life. Thanks to technology, various tools and mechanisms to track Covid-19 related metrics. This introductory-level tutorial discusses developing one such tool at just Linux command-line, from scratch.

    We will start with introducing the most important parts of the tool – the APIs and the commands. We will be using 2 APIs for our tool - COVID19 API and Quickchart API and 2 key commands – curl and jq. In simple terms, curl command is used for data transfer and jq command to process JSON data.

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Kernel Leftovers

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  • Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support

    Back in early 2018 were patches proposed for selectable platform support when building Intel's kernel graphics driver so users/distributions if desired could disable extremely old hardware support and/or cater kernel builds for specific Intel graphics generations. Three years later those patches have been re-proposed. The patches then and now are about allowing selectable Intel graphics "Gen" support at kernel configure/build time so that say the i8xx support could be removed or other specific generations of Intel graphics handled by the i915 kernel driver. This disabling could be done if phasing out older hardware support, seeking smaller kernel images, or other similar purposes. The patches don't change any default support levels but leaves things as-is and simply provides the knobs for disabling select generations of hardware.

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  • Hans de Goede: Logitech G15 and Z-10 LCD-screen support under Linux

    A while ago I worked on improving Logitech G15 LCD-screen support under Linux. I recently got an email from someone who wanted to add support for the LCD panel in the Logitech Z-10 speakers to lcdproc, asking me to describe the process I went through to improve G15 support in lcdproc and how I made it work without requiring the unmaintained g15daemon code.

Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Begin For Debian 11 Without Systemd

Debian 11 continues inching closer towards release and it looks like the developers maintaining the "Devuan" fork won't be far behind with their re-base of the distribution focused on init system freedom. The Devuan fork of Debian remains focused on providing Debian GNU/Linux without systemd. Devuan Beowulf 3.1 is their latest release based on Debian 10 while Devuan Chimaera is in the works as their re-base for Debian 11. Read more

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