Keen to kick the tyres on the next wave of KDE software? If so, check out a revamped experimental archive KDE neon developers recently announced. Unstable builds of the Ubuntu-based KDE neon now include KDE Plasma 6 (which is under active development) …
When Ubuntu 23.04 arrives in April it will be using Linux kernel 6.2, the most recent kernel version ahead of the distro’s next release – nice!
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MusicPod is a promising new music, podcast, and internet radio app for Ubuntu desktops that’s built with Flutter. Learn more inside.
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A new Xubuntu Minimal installation image will be available to download this spring. The first official release will be produced alongside Xubuntu 23.04.
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A new ‘window focus’ animation for GNOME Shell is available to test. GNOME designers are currently exploring a different way to indicate ‘focus’ in GNOME Shell. One idea is to remove the app icon, name, and menu that appears in …
Ever wanted to annotate files and/or folders inside of Nautilus? There’s a third-party Nautilus extension that allows you to do exactly that. Nautilus (also known as GNOME Files these days) used to have a built-in “notes” feature. Thi…
Should Ubuntu drop the Archive Manager app from the default install? That’s the suggestion put forward for community discussion by a prominent Ubuntu developer. The reasoning is that since Nautilus lets us create/extract commonly-compressed forma…
Xubuntu 23.04 ships with Flatpak and PipeWire support by default. The technologies are being introduced to provide Xubuntu with a better desktop experience.
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Listen up, lovelies: the codename for the next legendary instalment of the Ubuntu Linux distribution is alive — comes learn what label devs liken 23.04 to.
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Did you read my post on the ‘unofficial’ Snap Store for Ubuntu and come away as excited as I am about it’s potential? Well, I’ve got an interesting update…
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Plasma Bigscreen is an open source entertainment experience powered by the same technologies used by the KDE Plasma desktop. Want details? See inside!
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Ubuntu devs are building a brand new desktop installer using Subiquity and Flutter — and now you can test it out on your existing install as a demo Snap.
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Firefox 105 is packed with changes, from better memory behaviour to new gesture navigation. I go hands on with the latest builds to see what’s in store.
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The Evolution email client now uses client-side decoration. I checked in with the latest development builds of Evolution ahead of the GNOME 43 release just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything major and …Saw I was missing something major: the i…
There’s an interesting and totally unofficial desktop software app in development by the Ubuntu Flutter community. Devs describe it as ‘an alternative software store for the Ubuntu Desktop made with Flutter‘, the app-development tech …
Among the GNOME 43 features is a new ‘Device Security’ panel that tells you about the security status of your device. But if you upgrade to Ubuntu 22.10 in October you’re unlikely to be able to see it. A bug report filed by Ubuntu dev…
Ubuntu developers debate plans to drop the desktop ‘To Do’ application from the default install in Ubuntu 22.10 — but is ditching this tool a task too far?
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Nautilus 43 beta has arrived in the latest daily builds of Ubuntu 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu”. “And?”, you quizzically quip. Well, it’s not that big of a deal. However, I was eager to see ‘what the plan was’ for GTK4/…
The first point release in the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS series will arrive a week later than originally planned, due to issue affecting the OEM install option.
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Ubuntu’s beleaguered Firefox Snap package is tackling another of longstanding criticism of it, namely its lack of native messaging support. It’s this fancy-sounding feature that allows Firefox add-ons to “exchange messages with a nati…