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Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
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TROMjaro is a Manjaro-based Linux distribution with a customised Xfce desktop. Compared to its parent, TROMjaro offers several user-friendly utilities, such as Layout Switcher with six different layouts or Theme Switcher with several accent colours. It also provides various enhancements, including the integration of the Chaotic-AUR repository with pre-built binary packages, a selection of custom wallpapers and icon packs, and extra configuration options in Settings Manager. The distribution comes with support for AppImage files and a heavily-tweaked Firefox browser with custom add-ons..
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The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 20th, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.4.3, Blender 4.5 LTS, VirtualBox 7.1.12, GStreamer 1.26.4, Wireshark 4.4.8, Rescuezilla 2.6.1, LibreOffice 25.2.5, Calibre 8.7, and more.
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RED OS is an independently-developed Russian Linux distribution for workstations and servers. It uses the RPM and DNG tools for package management. The workstation edition provides a choice of three desktops, KDE Plasma, GNOME and MATE, while the server variant includes a custom server administration utility called RED ADM. The distribution is developed by Russia's RED SOFT, a company that also provides technical support and Linux training, as well as various administration, virtualisation and database software products. Voyager Live is an Xubuntu-based distribution and live DVD showcasing the Xfce desktop environment. Its features include the Avant Window Navigator or AWN (a dock-like navigation bar), Conky (a program which displays useful information on the desktop), and over 300 photographs and animations that can be used as desktop backgrounds. The project also develops several other editions of Voyager Live - a "GE" edition with GNOME Shell, a "GS" variant for Gamers, and a separately-maintained flavour based on Debian's "stable" branch. Slint is a Slackware Linux-based distribution for 64-bit (x86_64) machines. The distribution is intended to be used by people who are visually impaired. The distribution ships with a screen reader built-in which can even be used during the installation process.
Gradia’s latest update introduces a new option to generate eye-catching screenshots of source code snippets.
The feature can turn a custom snippet of source code into a colourful graphic for presenting in documentation, tutorials or sharing on social media.
Code Snippets can be displayed with a window frame or without; with line numbers or without; and support a variety of popular programming language syntax. A choice of colour scheme, Adwaita, Solarized, and Oblivion included, is available.
Gradia was created to make it easier for Linux app developers to make eye-catching graphics of their software for store listings, though it has expanded its feature set in recent releases to become a solid all-round image annotator and basic image editor.
Adding the ability to generate styled screenshots of source code feels like a nod back to its developer-focused roots, and the results sure do look good!
The code snippet feature isn’t the only change Gradia 1.7 brings. Other improvements include:
There’s also a cropping tool for trimming an image prior to export; default export filenames are more descriptive (and include creation time); and the app no longer asks for confirmation on close if the open image has already been saved.
As a reminder, Gradia is not an app for taking screenshots, it is an app for making screenshots look nicer. It can hook into the system screenshot tool to take new screen-grabs in app, and you can configure it to auto-open when you take a screenshot – but its job is prettifying.
If you have installed Gradia from Flathub, pop open a Terminal and run flatpak update to update to the latest version and try the new features first hand.
If you want to install Gradia on Ubuntu as a Snap, you can as Gradia is now available on the Snap Store! Seek it out in App Center, or run sudo snap install gradia to snag it.
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Keeping your Ubuntu install up-to-date isn’t difficult, even from the command line – but if you install packages from a slew of sources you often end up typing out a shopping list of commands to stay on top of things.
Which is where the Topgrade utility comes in. It lets you run a single command to update software from multiple sources, in one fell swoop.
Topgrade is not new, having debuted around 7 years ago (the original effort was archived in 2022 but a fork continues developed). I hadn’t heard of it; I saw a reader mention it in the comments of a recent article—thanks btw!—and felt it deserving of a spotlight.
A command-line tool written in Rust (because of course), Topgrade detects the package managers and updatable sources you use on your system, and then runs the correct commands to update the each time you run topgrade.
It manages APT sources, Snaps, and Flatpaks as standard, but developers will appreciate it can go beyond those common sources to also refresh and update a lot more besides, including:
Connexionfwupdmgr in view-only mode)Plus a whole lot more.
You install it, open a terminal, type topgrade, and it does its thing. A one-stop-shop – but you customise and fine-tune its behaviour (I’ll get to that in a second).
You can install Topgrade on Ubuntu in two main ways (not counting building from source): Cargo or a DEB package which is available for Ubuntu (and related Linux distributions, such as Linux Mint) on the project’s GitHub Releases page.
Using the Topgrade DEB saves any undue hassle. All necessary dependencies get fetched and installed for you, and the tool will integrate cleanly with your system’s PATH, and make it easy to uninstall at a later date (sudo apt remove topgrade).
Download the appropriate package from Github, then proceed install by double-clicking it and using App Center, or run this command (in the same directory as the DEB):
sudo apt install ./topgrade*.deb
Once done, you can open a Terminal and run topgrade.
However, the first time you use it run topgrade -n instead:
This performs a ‘dry run’, listing what actions/sources it would update from but without, y’know, actually updating anything you may not want.
There are other commands too. For a comprehensive overview of everything Topgrade can do, run topgrade --help.
To fully automate all upgrades (i.e., automatically agree/say yes to any package changes each source proposes), run topgrade -y and enter your password.
If you only wish update a specific source(s) or run them in a specific order, for example snap and Flatpak, use topgrade --only snap flaptak . To skip a specific source but update all the rest, you’d run topgrade --disable snap – this would be one-time only.
If you want to control which software sources and formats Topgrade manages every time you run the single command, without passing flags, edit the ~/.config/topgrade.toml text file. Here you can also add/control how source(s) like git repos are handled.
To exclude a source, for example exclude Flatpak, you’d add disable = ["flatpak"], and then save the file – always remember to save.
More customisation options are available, and the config file lists most of them.
You can add your own custom shell commands to run before or after the main process itself. For power users this open up a lot of possibilities, like letting you update a remote system(s) over SSH whenever you run it the command locally.
If you’re comfortable with GUI utilities like Software Updater and App Center, Topgrade is not something you will have need for. It also doesn’t do anything that can’t be done in other ways (some users like to create their own custom multi-line update scripts).
But Topgrade is worth checking out if you use a diverse range of software sources and want to abstract away the hassle involved in keeping all the things up-to-date. The low barrier and automatic detection make this a fuss-free, time-saving tool.
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StormOS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. The project's goal is to build an operating system which is easy-to-install, beginner-friendly and usable out of the box in order to attract new users over to the world of Arch Linux. Slackel is a Linux distribution and live CD based on Slackware Linux and Salix. It is fully compatible with both. It uses the current version of Slackware and the latest version of the KDE desktop. The Slackel disc images are offered in two different forms - installation and live.