📰 BleachBit’s new TUI lets you clean without a desktop environment
Open-source cleaning tool BleachBit has gained a text-based user interface (TUI) as an optional alternative to its standard graphical frontend. Unlike BleachBit’s existing CLI, which is intended for non-interactive use in scripts, the TUI is fully interactive, you navigate the interface with your keyboard (there’s limited mouse support) to select, preview and clean out cruft.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/bleachbit-tui
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📰 MuseScore Studio 4.7 Notation App Adds New Guitar Features
MuseScore Studio 4.7 open-source notation app adds new engraving tools, guitar notation features, playback improvements, MP4 export, and more.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/musescore-studio-4-7-notation-app-adds-new-guitar-features/
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📰 Dusk is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess comes to PC thanks to a new open source reverse-engineered reimplementation called Dusk.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/dusk-is-a-reverse-engineered-reimplementation-of-the-legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess
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📰 Restriced by the West, Huawei's Open Source HarmonyOS Now Powers 55 Million Devices
It seems that Huawei has managed to create an ecosystem of hardware as well as software.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17338103/harmony-os-rises-china
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📰 Audacious 4.6 Media Player Promises File Browser Plugin, Beta Out Now
Audacious 4.6 open-source media player is now available for public beta testing with a File Browser plugin, a macOS Now Playing plugin, support for playing Musepack SV8 files, and much more.
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/audacious-4-6-media-player-promises-file-browser-plugin-beta-out-now
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📰 Nintendo 64 emulator gopher64 adds controller hotkeys and auto-reconnect
The free and open source Nintendo 64 emulator gopher64 has another useful new release out now, bringing a few more features to make it easier.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/nintendo-64-emulator-gopher64-adds-controller-hotkeys-and-auto-reconnect/
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📰vm2 Node.js Library Vulnerabilities Enable Sandbox Escape and Arbitrary Code Execution
A dozen critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the vm2 Node.js library that could be exploited by bad actors to break out of the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on susceptible systems.vm2 is an open-source library used to run untrusted JavaScript code inside a secure sandbox by intercepting and proxying JavaScript objects to prevent sandboxed code from accessing the host.
🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/vm2-nodejs-library-vulnerabilities.html
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📰Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers
Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-Released
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📰 Inkscape 1.4.4 SVG Editor Released with a New Palette, Performance Improvements
Inkscape 1.4.4 open-source SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor is now available for download with a new palette, performance improvements,and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/inkscape-1-4-4-svg-editor-released-with-a-new-palette-performance-improvements
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📰 gThumb is barely recognisable in its GTK4/libadwaita port
gThumb, the open-source image viewer and organiser, has been rewritten in Vala and ported to GTK4/libadwaita – and compared to the old UI, it’s barely recognisable. An alpha build of gThumb 4.0 is available for testing. Alongside the visual revamp, this brings support for WEBP and PNG animations, lets you export images in the JXL format and includes a censor filter to pixelate or blur out parts of an image.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/gthumb-gtk4-port-redesign
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📰 I tried an open-source Figma alternative, and its AI does what Figma's can't
Not a Figma killer, but something more interesting.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-figma-for-open-source-tool-ai-does-what-figma-cant/
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📰 ReactOS Introduces Unified Live/Install Media, New Storage Driver
ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows has seen some exciting improvements this week...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Unified-ISO
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