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VLC media player amazes at CES2025 with real-time subtitle generation, enabling multilingual captions automatically.

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Android development is an exciting field, and Kotlin has quickly become the preferred language for building Android apps.

If you’re running Ubuntu 24.04 and want to set up Android Studio for Kotlin development, this guide is for you.

In this article, we will walk through the process of installing Android Studio, setting up Kotlin, and creating and running your first Android project in Kotlin.

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Consul is a modern platform for service discovery that allows you to register services via DNS and HTTP interface. It also offers a Service mesh feature that enables secure connections via TLS and provides authorization between services.

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There are a large number of terminal emulators to choose from, some offering a huge range of features, others aiming to be frugal with system resources. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 38 useful Linux terminal emulators.

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This week was a bit slow in the news, but we had some great releases like Linux kernel 6.13 and Linux Mint 22.1. In addition, to these awesome releases, this week brought new major releases of OpenZFS, MX Linux, Dillo, and DXVK.

On top of that, I take the new experimental Wayland session of the latest LXQt desktop environment for a test drive on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for January 19th, 2025.

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Fwupd 2.0.4 brings USB descriptor emulation, network metadata fixes, enhanced support for Logitech devices, and more.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Mint 22.1, VLC AI Subtitles, Arch Community Survey Results, GNOME Audio Player, MX 23.5, Deepin 25 Preview, and more.

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Distrobox 1.8.1, a containerized Linux environment, is a bug-fix release that includes fixes for the NVIDIA toolkit, smarter cloning, performance boosts, and more.

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Tinc is a simple, lightweight, and easy-to-use mesh VPN daemon. Learn how you can create a private P2P VPN on Linux with Tinc today.

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The KDE Plasma desktop is renowned for its sleek design, extensive customization options, and impressive performance. For users who appreciate a polished, modern interface with the flexibility to tweak every detail, Plasma is a dream come true.

But which Linux distributions make KDE Plasma their default desktop environment? Here, we’ll explore six standout distros that embrace Plasma, each offering its unique spin on this versatile desktop environment.

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Learn all about hidden files in Linux, why they exist, how to view them, and how to manage them effectively for better control over your system.

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I’ve tested this tutorial on the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop environments using Wayland since they’re the most popular amongst Linux users, but it should work on other desktops if they use either Plasma’s KWin or GNOME’s Mutter window and composite managers.

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Bottles 51.18, a compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux, brings UI enhancements, CLI fixes, better file pickers, and more.

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Kdenlive 24.12.1 video editor released focuses on stability with fixes for built-in effects, crash issues, sequence resizing, and smoother workflows for Linux users.

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For the first time, TuxCare is offering support for Microsoft software that’s no longer supported. .NET 6.0 reached end of life last November.

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Powered by kernel 6.8 and based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” is now available for download, offering a Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment.

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Supporting kernels from Linux 4.18 up to the latest Linux 6.12 LTS, OpenZFS 2.3 introduces many great enhancements like support for adding new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool to increase the storage capacity without downtime.

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Mecha Comet is a handheld Linux computer with 4GB RAM, 32GB storage, extensible hardware and software, and endless customization possibilities.

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Jnv is a navigational JSON processor and offers an interactive JSON viewer that works almost like jq and could be the best choice for a sysadmin.

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Markdown (.MD) files are a favorite among developers, writers, and content creators due to their simplicity and flexibility, but what happens when you need to share your beautifully formatted Markdown file with someone who prefers a more universally accepted format, like PDF?

On Linux, you have several tools and methods to achieve this seamlessly and this guide will walk you through the process of converting .MD files to .PDF, ensuring your documents look professional and polished.

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