A brand new version of free, open-source office suite LibreOffice is ready to download. LibreOffice 24.2 is the follow up to last year’s LibreOffice 7.6 release. A leap because the latest edition is the first to use a calendar-based version numbe…
Read MoreMozilla Firefox 122 has been officially released, with an official Deb package debuting alongside it. Yes: there’s now an official Firefox Deb package for Debian-based distros, including Ubuntu. This gives users a safe, reliable way to get the la…
Read MoreMozilla Firefox 121 has been released, and it’s a notable one for Linux Wayland users. For the Ubuntu 23.10 release, the Firefox Snap runs in Wayland mode by default (and like many of you I’ve noticed nothing but bountiful benefits resultin…
Read MoreIntel GPU support has been added to the Linux system monitor app Mission Center. I’ve written about this GTK4/libadwaita app a few times in the past and, to plagiarise myself, the reaction to it has been off the charts (in a good way). The app is…
Read MoreIf Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, was a book itself it’d surely be a perennial bestseller, thanks to an exhaustive, multi-faceted feature set. And in the latest Calibre 7 release, the feature set expands yet further. The latest v…
Read MoreThe open-source text editor Notepad++ is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a new release filled with some neat new features. In Notepad++ 8.6 (the 238th release since 2003, for those keeping count) the Windows-based code tool adds to its extensive …
Read MoreGNOME Shell’s built-in screen recording feature is perfect at capturing short clips but when you need to record longer sessions you should use a dedicated screen recording app. Such tools give you greater control over video quality, output format…
Read MoreIt’s been a long time since I last wrote about Musique, a desktop music player for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Amazingly, the app is still going, and it just got its first major update in nearly 3 years. “This Musique update is the first Qt …
Read MoreMozilla Firefox 120 has landed, bringing with it a flurry of new features and improvements. Firefox 120 now supports corner snapping for Picture-in-Picture (PIP) mode on Windows and Linux. This will put a PIP window back in a corner after it’s be…
Read MoreInkscape, a free and open-source vector graphics editor, has released a new version which its developers say is the ‘biggest bug fix’ update they’ve ever shared! Alongside 40 bug fixes there are over 30 crash/freeze fixes included in …
Read MoreA major update to HandBrake, the cross-platform and open-source video transcoder, is now available for download. HandBrake 1.7.0 brings several new features that will benefit users on Windows and macOS, as well as a host of Linux-specific buffs. Buffs….
Read MoreFoliate is one of the best ebook readers for Linux and it’s just released a major update. The app has been “rewritten from scratch with the latest platform libraries, GTK4 and Adwaita, with refreshed interface and improved performance,̶…
Read MoreA new version of OBS Studio, version 30.0, has been released, and it comes with a number of new features and improvements. OBS Studio is free, open-source live streaming and screen recording software that is popular with gamers, streamers, and even edu…
Read MoreI don’t use the Zoom Linux app (or Zoom in general) but I know many of you do, so you’ll pleased to hear the Zoom Deb installer now works in Ubuntu 23.10. The latest hot-fix release resolves a dependency issue with the deb installer that ca…
Read MoreMusicPod, an all-in-one music, radio and podcast player for Linux created in Flutter, has matured at a clip since I first looked at it in the spring. The app was already in pretty good form then, able to play local audio files, browse and manage a audi…
Read MoreImpression is a excellent image writing tool for Linux desktops, and with its latest release it’s become even more useful. How so? By making it easy to download ISO images for a selection of Linux distros directly within the app, including recent…
Read MoreBleachBit, the popular free system cleaner, has just released a major update — its first since 2021. For those unfamiliar with it, BleachBit is an open-source system cleaner available for both Windows and Linux, written in Python and GTK. Similar to ot…
Read MoreA brand new version of Audacity, the open-source audio workstation, has been released. Audacity 3.4 includes a number of new features and improvements, include new music workflows that will greatly enhance the editor’s appeal with musicians. One …
Read MoreMozilla Firefox 119 has been released. The latest update to the open-source web browser brings a set of improvements that enhance its usefulness, both for those using it full-time and those looking to make a switch to it. For example, when importing da…
Read MoreA new version of the Raspberry Pi Imager app is available to download. This cross-platform tool makes it easy to download OS images designed for the Raspberry Pi and flash them to connected USB drives and SD cards. And in Raspberry Pi Imager 1.8.1 it&#…
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