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In the news: Nobara Project; Gnome 44; Nitrux 2.6; Vanilla OS; Critical Linux Vulnerability Found to Impact SMB Servers; Linux Mint 21.1; Another Attempt at a Linux Tablet; Designing with LibreOffice 2nd Edition; and KaOS Linux 2022.12.
Nobara Project Is a Modified Version of Fedora with User-Friendly Fixes
The Nobara Project's aim is to bring users a better gaming, streaming, and content-creation solution out of the box.
This new Linux distribution (which is not a Fedora Spin) is a completely independent project. This Linux operating system includes NVIDIA drivers, Wine dependencies, OBS Studio, third-party codecs, and a collection of package fixes that are geared toward making it easy for users to immediately be productive, without having to tweak, install, or patch anything.
Pre-installed packages include Blender, DaVinci Resolve, OBS Studio, Wine, Proton, Discord, Flatpak, Steam, Lutris, OnlyOffice, VapourSynth, and much more. You'll also find the RPM Fusion repository that includes both free and non-free software.
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