Linux Twitter App ‘Corebird’ Now Supports Longer Tweets

An updated version of the open-source desktop Twitter client Corebird is available for download.

Corebird 1.3.2 is the second bug-fix release since the release of Corebird 1.3 back in July. It enables support for the social media service’s newer, longer tweets.

Twitter says the new so-called “expanded tweets” do not count media attachments (photos, GIFs, videos, and polls) towards the 140-character limit. It also says it plans to exclude usernames in replies from the character count too, though an exact date for this has yet to be announced.

GTK Radio Player ‘Gradio’ Gets New Beta Release, Gains New Features

A new beta release of the desktop radio player app GRadio is available for download — and it’s broadcasting a wealth of changes.

Developer Häcker Felix says the next major stable release needs to deliver ‘a rock-solid stable base for the next versions’, and to do so he needs feedback on how the app is shaping up right now.

Kdenlive news and packaging

Following our last week’s monthly Café, we decided to concentrate on advanced trimming features and if possible an audio mixer for the next Kdenlive 16.12 release. It was also mentionned that several users requested the comeback of the rotoscoping effect, which was lost in the KF5 port, preventing some users to upgrade their Kdenlive version.

What’s new in 389 Directory Server 1.3.5

As a member of the 389 Directory Server (389DS) core team, I am always excited about our new releases. We have some really great features in 1.3.5. However, our changelogs are always large so I want to just touch on a few of my favourites.

389 Directory Server is an LDAPv3 compliant server, used around the world for Identity Management, Authentication, Authorisation and much more. It is the foundation of the FreeIPA project’s server. As a result, it’s not something we often think about or even get excited for: but every day many of us rely on 389DS to be correct, secure and fast behind the scenes.

Adobe Returns to Linux with the New NPAPI Flash Player After 4 Years

Codeweavers CrossOver 15.3.0 for Linux and Mac OSX has been released

I am delighted to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver 15.3.0 for both Mac OSX and Linux. CrossOver 15.3.0 has important bug fixes for both Mac and Linux users.

Enlightenment EFL Adds Atomic Modesetting, Nuclear Page-Flipping

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) now has support for atomic mode-setting and nuclear page-flipping!

This atomic mode-setting and nuclear page-flipping support is designed for the Linux 4.8 kernel and newer and so far has just been tested with the Intel DRM driver.

Samsung developer Chris Michael commented with the nearly thousand lines of new code that on working systems it provides "buttery smoothness."

Kubuntu beta; please test!

When you run into bugs, try to report them via "apport", which means using ubuntu-bug packagename in the commandline. Once apport has logged into launchpad and downloaded the relevant error messages, you can give some details like a short description of the bug, and can get the number. Please report the bug numbers on the qa site in your test report.

mrxvt looking for maintainers

mrxvt is a cool light-weight terminal emulator, not tied to a specific desktop environment and with minimal dependency. This was also one of my very first bigger contributions to Free Software. Well I had patches here and there before, but that’s one project where I stuck around longer and where I was quickly given commit rights. So it is dear to my heart. It was also my first big feature attempt since I started a branch to add UTF-8 support (actually any-encoding support), which is the normal way of things now but at the time, many software and distributions were still not working with UTF-8 as a default. Then I left for years-long wandering our planet on a motorcycle (as people who know me are aware) and because of this, drastically slowed down FLOSS contributions until a few years ago. Back as a contributor, mrxvt is not my main project anymore (you know which these are: GIMP and ZeMarmot!). I moved on.

Flowblade 1.8 Released, Supports Keyboard Trimming, Clip Snapping

The open-source video editor Flowblade has a new release available for download.

Flowblade 1.8 arrives with a batch of key improvements into, including the ability to trim clips using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

This way of working, say the Flowblade team, feels “more convenient and precise then always working with a mouse

News about Blender second release candidate and other projects.

The Chairman Blender Foundation and producer Blender Institute, Mr. Ton Roosendaal comw with this news about second release candidate and other projects...

Microsoft Updates Skype for Linux to Version 1.8 [Ed: malicious software]

Opera for Desktop Gets Free VPN on Windows, Linux, and Mac

After bringing its free VPN services to iOS and Android, Opera has now released a free, no-login VPN for desktop users as well. The VPN is bundled in to the Opera browser and requires no sign-in or any setup - using it is as simple as the press of a single button. What this does is make using a VPN simple even for users who are not technologically-inclined. Opera's browser VPN was first launched as a beta in April this year.

A month later, Opera VPN was available as a standalone app on iOS. The VPN was then launched for Android in August before finally rolling out the final version for desktop users now.

GnuCash 2.6.14 Free Accounting Software Improves Investment Lots, Fixes SQL Bugs

Avidemux 2.6.14 Open-Source Video Editor Supports Lagarith Lossless Video Codec

The open-source video editor Avidemux, received a new maintenance update (version 2.6.14) the other day, September 17, 2016, and it is now available for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Avidemux 2.6.14 is both a feature and bugfix release, coming exactly one month after the unveiling of the previous stable build, namely Avidemux 2.6.13. According to the release notes, the new version implements automatic check for new versions of the Qt interface (check are performed once a day), re-implements support for Windows XP (for those still using it) by adding support for the MXE cross-compiler.

Calibre 2.68 eBook Converter and Organizer Released for Linux, Windows, and Mac

Kovid Goyal released yet another weekly update of his popular, cross-platform, and open-source Calibre ebook library management software for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 2

Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skinned, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively. With all this work done over the months some bugs might slip through and were hoping to quickly squash the coming beta releases.

Kodi 17 Steps Closer With Krypton Beta 2

Kodi 17 "Krypton" Beta 2 Adds New Android 7.0 Nougat Passthrough Audio API

Media Player Indicator Is A Slick Sound Menu for GNOME Shell

Sound Menu in Ubuntu’s Unity desktop, Raven’s player controls appear for all apps that sport MPRIS2 integration.

Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features

Remember The Milk Now Has an Official Linux App

Remember The Milk, a popular web-based to-do and task management service, has introduced an official desktop Linux app to its herd of official clients.

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