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GIMP, a free and open-source raster graphics and image editor, now is available as Snap application in beta channel for testing. Daniel Llewellyn is calling for testing GIMP Snap app on snapcraft forum. It’s GIMP 2.8.20 available in beta channel at the moment. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching it from app launcher) and run command to install it: sudo ...

Gnome-Pie, a circular application launcher for Linux desktop, has reached the 0.7.1 release. The new release features initial Wayland support though it is very limited for now. Due to the current Wayland state and security concerns, Gnome-Pie in Wayland has following limitations: No key bindings. No delayed activation. No turbo activation. No mouse pointer warping. Only centered Pies. Transparent fullscreen ...

CopyQ, an open-source, cross-platform, advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features, has reached the 3.0.3 release days ago with new documentation, improvements and some bug-fixes. CopyQ monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs. Saved clipboard can be later copied and pasted directly into any application. CopyQ features: Support for Linux, Windows and OS X 10.9+ Store ...

Wine, an open-source compatibility layer allows to run Windows applications on Unix-like systems, announced a new development release 2.12 yesterday. Wine 2.12 features: Audio driver for Android. Some performance improvements with async I/O. More RegEdit file parser improvements. Beginnings for MSI user interface support. And following bugs has been fixed in this release: Lost Horizon crash/page fault during Chapter 2 ...

WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Unix, BSD, and GNU Hurd. While Ubuntu repositories only provide an old version, here’s how to install the latest WeeChat via its official repository in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and derivatives. WeeChat Features: lightweight core with optional plugins. Full-featured IRC ...

The GnuCash development team announced a new maintenance release of its personal and small-business financial-accounting software, GnuCash 2.6.17, a few days ago with various bug-fixes and some translation updates. Changes since GnuCash 2.6.16 includes: Prevent changing some Account Options if it has transactions Fix online banking wizard crashes for Windows Alert on missing account currency when opening account Gnucash 2.6.16 ...

Though there are quite a few Ubuntu configuration tools, Stacer is a new Linux desktop application for monitoring system resources and services, cleaning up system caches, and more. Stacer Features: Dashboard with brief system info, resource usage, and network speed. System Cleaner to remove package cache, crash reports, system logs, app cache, and trash. Manage startup applications. Manage system services. ...

Rapid Photo Downloader, the open-source and Linux desktop’s premier photo and video downloader/importer, has reached the new major 0.9.0 release after two and a half years of development. According to the release note, Rapid Photo Downloader has switched to Qt5 from GTK+2. It also uses Python 3.4+ to replace Python 2.7. Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.0 release highlights: UI has been ...

Green Recorder is a simple desktop screen recorder for Linux supports for Wayland and Xorg. It’s free, open-source and built with Python, GTK+ 3 and ffmpeg. The UI is quite simple, just type a filename, select destination folder, file format, and which to record (audio, video, mouse cursor). There are also advanced options for setting frame rate, time delay, audio ...

By releasing NVIDIA 384.47 beta earlier today, NVIDIA for Linux driver has reached the 384 series, a new short-lived stable release series. NVIDIA 384.47 add following new GPUs support: GeForce GTX 1080 with Max-Q Design GeForce GTX 1070 with Max-Q Design GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design GeForce GT 1030 GeForce MX150 P106-100 There are also various bug-fixes and other ...