This site is a collection of tips, examples and small chunks of code I’ve used over the years as I’ve worked with Linux. Mostly the items found here are for my own use but I’ve made the site public in the chance that it will help other people. If you find something useful please let […]
Read MoreGeForce Now’s native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontend for Nvidia’s game streaming service, with over 4,500 PC titles running in the cloud on…
Read MoreGeForce Now’s native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontend for Nvidia’s game streaming service, with over 4,500 PC titles running in the cloud on…
Read MoreVLC got blamed for Microsoft’s clumsiness.
Read MoreWhile some open source projects are locking AI out of their codebases, Omarchy’s upcoming v4 release treats AI as part of the system.
Read MoreThe popular FFmpeg media library announced the first maintenance update for the 9.0 “Lei” release on Wednesday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS. The new FFmpeg 9.0.1 brings a total of 83 fixes and improvements mainly for its libavcodec, libavfilter, and libavformat libraries. For the Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 decoder, it now determines and […]
Read MoreThe post MakerSkills: Add AI Agent Skills to Claude Code on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .makerskills is an open-source pack of AI agent skills for Claude Code. This walkthrough covers how to install it on
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VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
Read MoreThis is to announce wdiff-1.2.3, a stable release.
There have been 29 commits by 2 people in the 637 weeks since 1.2.2.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to …
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Philip Müller has announced the release of Manjaro Linux 26, the new stable build of the project’s set of rolling-release distributions with a choice of GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce deskto…
Read MoreLightDM, Ubuntu’s former display manager, has had its first new release in four years – and the first under a new set of maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a ‘catch up’ release that adds Qt6 support (Qt5 still works, don’t worry) a…
Read MoreQEMU, the open-source virtualizer and virtual machine monitor, released new 11.1.0 version one day ago. The new version of this software introduced many new features support for ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V emulation, improved QMP/HMP monitoring support, and fixed various issues. QEMU 11.1.0 added support for very recent ARM CPU architectures, especially the newer FP8 + SVE/SME […]
Read MoreThe funds will go towards keeping the project up and running.
Read MoreThis is a step by step guide shows how to install the Claude Desktop App in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based Linux Distributions. The Claude Desktop for Linux is so far a Beta app that provides the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as on macOS and Windows. Supported Hardware & OSes: […]
Read MoreThe post Rio Terminal Emulator for Linux: Speed Up Your Command-Line Workflow first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Rio is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust that gives you built-in tabs, splits, and a command pa…
Read MoreThe next version of GNOME Shell, out in September, is ‘likely’ to include a redesigned search experience. In current versions of the desktop, when you start a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces …
Read MoreOpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can run Codex in your local repos, hook into and control other apps via extensions, handle ChatGPT Wor…
Read MoreThey have already cracked Xbox game downloads, and macOS support is also being worked on.
Read Moreby George Whittaker
Intel’s open-source Linux graphics stack has taken another step forward with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding through Vulkan Video. New code merged for Mesa’s ANV …
Read MoreThe local AI scene is more fragmented than the Linux distro landscape.
Read MoreLocalSend, the popular AirDrop alternative application for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, released new 1.18.0 version. The new version of this popular free open-source application added initial command line interface (CLI) support, allowing to send or receive files in terminal or server without graphical desktop environment. The new CLI starts in interactive mode. It […]
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