Full Circle Weekly News 487 25 Oct 2026 · 1 minutes

• Ubuntu developers have begun testing Myna:

• Release of ScummVM 2026.4.0:

• FreeType 2.15 font engine:

• ONLYOFFICE 10:

• KDE Plasma 6.8:

• Strata 1.0:

• ElixirOffice

• TinyLittleOffice:

• Ubuntu 26.10:

• Documentary about KDE:

• 64-bit Steam client for Linux:

• Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1:

• OpenRGB 1.1:

Full Circle Weekly News 460 19 Apr 2026 · 1 minutes

• Steam Linux users on the rise:

• uutils 0.8:

• APT 3.2.0:

• miracle-wm 0.9:

• A project to test FreeBSD on laptops:

• Linux version of Little Snitch:

• SQLite 3.53:

• Deepin 25.1:

• Cage 0.3:

• the French migrating from Windows to Linux:

• Trisquel 12.0:

Full Circle Weekly News 421 13 Jul 2025 · 1 minutes

• Cryptsetup 2.8:

• Ubuntu to ship intel-compute-runtime without Spectre protection that reduces performance by 20%:

• Third preview release of Pidgin 3.0 messenger:

• Steam Client for Linux Updated:

• Release of boot firmware CoreBoot 25.06, Libreboot 25.06 and Canoeboot 25.06:

• GNOME 49 changes:

• Perl 5.42 is available:

• Work on the Copyleft-next license has resumed:

• Angie 1.10.0 released:

• Multipass 1.16 Released:

• Release of 7-Zip 25.00:

• Bash 5.3 Shell Released:

• Release of Brushshe 2.0.0:

Full Circle Weekly News 390 3 Nov 2024 · 1 minutes

• Release of iwd 3.0:

• Minetest gets a name:

• Release of SysVinit 3.11:

• Kitten 10:

• Release of OpenSSL 3.4, LibreSSL 4.0, Botan 3.6 and Rustls 0.23.15 cryptographic libraries:

• Steam OS 3.6.19:

• Release of Cozystack 0.17.0:

• Vivaldi 7.0 Browser with New Interface Design:

• Bitwarden SDK Moved from Proprietary License to GPLv3:

• Ubuntu Sway Remix 24.10:

• TileOS 1.2:

Full Circle Weekly News 355 3 Mar 2024 · 1 minutes

• Miracle-wm, a composite manager based on Wayland and Mir:

• WebKit adds support for the Skia library for rendering 2D graphics:

• Valve open sourced Steam Audio toolkit:

• RawTherapee 5.10 released:

• Release of Lighttpd 1.4.74:

• Kubuntu has announced a competition to create a logo and branding elements:

• The Ardor 8.4 GTK2 fork:

• Release of GCompris 4.0:

• Release of GIMP 2.99.18. Freeze before GIMP 3.0 release:

• Release of MyLibrary 3.0:

• Release of Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS:

• Release of antiX 23.1:

• Armbian 24.2 is available:

• DietPi 9.1:

Full Circle Magazine 197 29 Sep 2023 · 1 minutes

This month:

• Command & Conquer
• How-To : Python, Stable Diffusion and Latex
• Graphics : Inkscape
• Micro This Micro That
• Review : Ubuntu Unity 23.04 and PikaOS
• Ubuntu Games : Littlewood

plus: News, My Opinion, Q&A, The Daily Waddle, and more.

Full Circle Magazine 196 25 Aug 2023 · 1 minutes

This month:

• –Command & Conquer–
• How-To : Python, Stable Diffusion and –Latex–
• Graphics : Inkscape
• Micro This Micro That
• Ubports Touch : OTA-2
• Review : Xubuntu 23.04 and Notable
• Book Review : Modeling and Simulation in Python
• Ubuntu Games : Garden Galaxy

plus: News, My Opinion, Q&A, The Daily Waddle, and more.

Full Circle Weekly News 322 16 Jul 2023 · 1 minutes

• Perl 5.38.0 with class support:

• Release of rclone 1.63:

• DeltaTouch 1.0.0:

• New release of Radix:

• KDE Neon:

• 75% of Steam games play in Linux:

• LXD seperation:

• The sourcegraph project moved from an open license to proprietary:

• OpenKylin 1.0:

• Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.0:

• Imagination uses Zink:

• Fedora considering telemetry:

• Ubuntu 23.10 new app manager:

• blendOS 3:

• Release Phosh 0.29:

• Q4OS 5.2:

• Release of Solus 4.4:

Full Circle Magazine 188 30 Dec 2022 · 1 minutes

This month:

• Command & Conquer

• How-To : Python, Blender and Latex

• Graphics : Inkscape

• Everyday Ubuntu

• Micro This Micro That

• Review : Kubuntu 22.10

• Review : Ubuntu Cinnamon 22.04

• Ubports Touch : OTA-24

• Tabletop Ubuntu

• Ubuntu Games : Dwarf Fortress (Steam Edition)

  plus: News, My Story, The Daily Waddle, Q&A, and more.

Full Circle Weekly News 265 18 Jul 2022 · 1 minutes

• Release of LXLE Focal:

• OpenMandriva rock n roll:

• PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0 Caching DNS Server Released:

• Release of the NixOS 22.05 distribution using the Nix package manager:

• Ubuntu 22.10 will replace GEdit with the new GNOME text editor:

• NVIDIA proprietary driver release 515.48.07:

• nftables packet filter 1.0.3 released:

• Perl 7 will smoothly continue the development of Perl 5 without breaking backwards compatibility:

• Release of Steam OS 3.2:

• A hardwired password for accessing the user base has been revealed in the Linuxfx distribution:

• Release of the Deepin 20.6:

• Release of Nitrux 2.2 distribution with NX Desktop:

• Distrobox 1.3, a toolkit for nested distributions:

• Armbian distribution release 22.05:

• Linux ported for Apple iPad tablets on A7 and A8 chips:

Full Circle Weekly News 260 8 May 2022 · 1 minutes

• Mesa’s Rust implementation of OpenCL now supports OpenCL 3.0:

• Intel Opens PSE Block Firmware Code for Elkhart Lake Chips:

• DBMS libmdbx 0.11.7 Move Development to GitFlic After Lockdown on GitHub:

• Wolfire open source game Overgrowth:

• The Warsmash project develops an alternative open source game engine for Warcraft III:

• Release of GNUnet Messenger 0.7 and libgnunetchat 0.1 to create decentralized chats:

• The system programming language Hare:

• Updating the Steam OS distribution used on the Steam Deck gaming console:

• Spotify donates 100,000 euros in open source awards:

• Xpdf 4.04 released:

• Release of the Pop!_OS 22.04 with the COSMIC desktop:

• Technical committee rejects plan to end BIOS support in Fedora:

• Release of the Archinstall 2.4:

• KDE Plasma Mobile 22.04 Mobile Platform Available:

• Redis 7.0 released:

• Mozilla Common Voice 9.0 Voice Update:

• The Genode Project has published the Sculpt 22.04 General Purpose OS:

• Patent used to attack GNOME is invalidated:

• Release of the Redox OS 0.7 operating system written in Rust:

Full Circle Weekly News 242 28 Dec 2021 · 1 minutes

• Debian offers fnt font manager

• Ubuntu 22.04 theme switched to orange

• Debian 11.2 Update

• Mongoose OS 2.20, an IoT device platform released

• Release of the GNU library libmicrohttpd 0.9.74

• Release of helloSystem 0.7 using FreeBSD and similar to macOS

• Release of the distribution kit Elementary OS 6.1

• Release of the graphics editor GIMP 2.10.30

• 80% of the 100 most popular games on Steam are running on Linux

• Search Engine DuckDuckGo Desktop Web Browser

• Release of service manager s6-rc 0.5.3.0 and init system s6-linux-init 1.0.7

• Manjaro Linux 21.2 Release

• SuperTux 0.6.3 Free Game Release

• Release of Krita 5.0

• Jami “Taranis” released