OpenToonz 1.5, an open source 2D animation package: https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz/releases/tag/v1.5.0 Sway 1.6 environment using Wayland released: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.6 Xen 4.15 hypervisor released: https://www.xenproject.org/ FPGA Open Source Development Initiative: https://osfpga.org/osfpga-foundation-launched/ NVIDIA Invests $ 1.5M in...

Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.4 released https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-mail-gateway Haruna 0.6.0 video player available https://github.com/g-fb/haruna TeX Live 2021 released https://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-announce@cygwin.com/msg09615.html IceWM 2.3 window manager released https://ice-wm.org/ WebOS Open Source Edition 2.10 Release https://www.webosose.org/blog/2021/04/02/webos-ose-2-10-0-release/ Google wins Java and...

Please welcome new host, Moss Bliss . DigiKam 7.2 released https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-03-22-7.2.0_release_announcement/ 4MLinux 36.0 released https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com/2021/03/4mlinux-360-stable-released.html Malicious changes detected in the PHP project Git repository https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838 New version of Cygwin 3.2.0, the GNU...

Ubuntu Testing Week Is Here https://popey.com/blog/2021/03/ubuntu-21.04-testing-week/ 7zip Sees its First Official Linux Port https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/cec5e63147/ openSUSE Virtual Conference in June https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSVC21 Richard Stallman Returns to the Free Software Foundation https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman-returns-to-fsf-18-months-after-controversial-rape-comments/ Collabora Releases PanVk https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/panvk-an-open-source-vulkan-driver-for-arm-mali-midgard-and-bifrost-gpus.html Ubuntu...

Next month (FCM#168 - April) marks fourteen (14!) years of Full Circle Magazine. I'd like to run a piece in that issue sharing your stories...

This month: * Command & Conquer : LMMS * How-To : Python, Latex and Fritzing * Graphics : Inkscape * Linux Loopback : My Story * Everyday Ubuntu : RetroComputing...

Canonical Chooses Flutter https://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1367063203600031746?s=20 Linux Mint to Make System Updates a Priority https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4037 Steam Link Now Available on Linux https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/10/3106892760562833187/ ElementaryOS 6 Changing Some of the Look and Feel https://blog.elementary.io/look-and-feel-changes-elementary-os-6/ Root Access...

Ubuntu Releases 20.04.2.0 After Regression https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2021-February/000265.html Hirsute Hippo Feature Freeze https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2021-February/001288.html Thunderbird Backported to Ubuntu 20.04 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/thunderbird-lts-update/20819?u=d0od Mesa Project Looking for Help https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radv-aco-cft&num=1 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues System76 Milling Their Own Open Source Keyboards https://blog.system76.com/post/612874398967513088/making-a-keyboard-the-system76-approach Red Hat Announces...

This month: * Command & Conquer : LMMS * How-To : Python, Podcast Production, and Make a Budget * Graphics : Inkscape * Linux Loopback * Everyday Ubuntu : RetroComputing TRS-80 * Review...

Ubuntu 20.04.2 and Flavors with HWE Stack Released https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2021-February/000264.html https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours Ubuntu To Replace Ubiquity Installer https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/refreshing-the-ubuntu-desktop-installer/20659 Apache Project Hoping for New Rust Cryptography Module, with Help from Google https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-funds-project-to-secure-apache-web-server-project-with-new-rust-component/ Martin Wimpress...