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Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs

Firefox 136 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with hardware video decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux and many other changes. Here’s what to expect!
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Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs

Firefox 136 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with hardware video decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux and many other changes. Here’s what to expect!
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Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux

Ardour 8.11 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed in this release!
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Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 135 open-source web browser is now available for download with XZ packaging on Linux and other Linux changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint Readers

Fwupd 2.0.5 open-source Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with support for more ELAN Fingerprint readers and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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GCompris 25.0 Open-Source Educational Suite Released with Five New Activities

GCompris 25.0 open-source educational software suite providing entertainment tools for children aged 2 to 10 is now available for download. This release brings new and improved activities.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 134 Adds New Notification System for Real-Time Desktop Alerts

Mozilla Thunderbird 134 open-source and free email and calendar client is now available for download with new features and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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Shotcut 25.01 Video Editor Adds Native Wayland Support on Flatpak for Linux

Shotcut 25.01 open-source video editor is now available for download with native Wayland support in the Flatpak bundle on Linux.
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New App Makes Converting Text Documents on Ubuntu Easier

There are a number of ways to convert documents on Ubuntu but few are as quick and easy to use as Morphosis. Morphosis is a desktop app written in Python and GTK4/libadwaita and powered by Pandoc, a command-line document converter tool for Windows, mac…

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Plattenalbum is a Modern-Looking MPD Client for Linux

This week I came across Plattenalbum, a modern GTK4/libadwaita frontend for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). MPD remains a popular way to make music stored on a server or a computer available on other devices, with capable, user-friendly frontend clients…

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Collector is like a Linux Version of DropOver

If you’re looking for a way to more efficiently copy files on Linux, check out Collector. Collector gives you a temporary holding space on which you can drag and drop multiple files, paste clipboard content, and drop web links to images (e.g., Go…

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Flathub Now Has Over 1 Million Active Flatpak App Users

Flathub is currently one of the most popular app stores for Linux, serving 1.6 billion downloads of over 2,400 apps in the Flatpak format, of which more than 850 have been verified by their original authors. And now, Flathub proudly announced today tha…

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Use Reco to Record System Audio & Your Microphone in Ubuntu

Looking to record system sounds and your microphone at the same time on Ubuntu, and save it to a single audio file? Reco is a free, open-source audio recording app for Linux, written in Vala and GTK. Although it’s designed for elementary OS it wo…

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Varia is a Brand New Download Manager for Linux

Varia is a new, open-source download manager for Linux based on Aria2, a powerful command-line download utility. As the user interface is built with GTK 4 and libadwaita, Varia looks perfectly in-keeping with other modern GTK apps Ubuntu offers: Of cou…

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Use GDM Settings to Customise Ubuntu’s Login Screen

Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions uses the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) as its, well, display manager, though most of us tend to think of or refer to it as the login screen. To customise the Ubuntu login screen, such as setting a different theme or…

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Decibels is a Linux Audio Player for Non-Music Files

Want to playback a lecture recording, transcribe an interview, or listen to a podcast episode without adding it to your music library? Check out Decibels, a novel new audio player for Linux written in Typescript and GTK4/libadwaita. While Decibels can …

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Errands is a Top To-Do List App for Linux Users

To get stuff done you need to get organised, and to-do apps can be an invaluable tool in helping you achieve that. Tons of terrific to-do list apps for Linux are out there, ranging from the focused with no-frills through to complex with all-the-frills….

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Flatpak Fans Will Want to Install This Neat New Tool

Flatpak fans will want to check out Warehouse. Warehouse is new GTK4/libadwaita tool that makes it easy to manage Flatpak apps and Flatpak remotes (e.g., Flathub, GNOME Nightly, etc) on Linux desktops. It’s particularly nifty as it provides a GUI…

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A Linux App to Track Movies & TV Shows You Want to Watch

Ticketbooth is a neat Linux app with one purpose: to help you keep track of the Movies and TV shows you want to watch. The few streaming services I use…

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Speech Note Transcribes Voice to Text on Linux

Speech Note is an offline, AI-powered app able to transcribe your speech into text in a variety of different languages. A reader got in touch to point me towards the…

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