GNOME has announced a change to its default UI and monospace fonts ahead of the upcoming GNOME 48 release — a typographic turnabout that won’t impact Ubuntu users directly, though. Should you feel a sense of deja vu here it’s because GNOME …
GNOME 47 ‘Denver’ proved a decent update to the GNOME desktop, delivering a hearty dose of new features, UI refinements, and app improvements. As those of you using Ubuntu 24.10 are no-doubt enjoying. But as one release goes out, work on th…
Docker Desktop 4.34 debuts with MSI installer, NVIDIA AI, new authentication features, and major networking upgrades.
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Every been miffed when reading about a major new Ubuntu release only to learn it does not include the latest Linux kernel? Well, that’ll soon be a thing of the past. Future Ubuntu releases will ship the latest upstream kernel, even if it’s …
The other day, Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of the software supply chain company Chainguard, wrote on LinkedIn that “open source is not a good strategy for startups.” What? Do you think I was going to disagree because I’m a big open-source fan? Think again! Yep, it’s a great development model, but it never has […]
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As you may know, Mozilla has big plans for its browser and, among the many new features set to rain down on us this year is greater personalisation of the new tab page. While the ability to set a new tab background image is the most eye-catching (liter…
Symfony is a free, full-stack PHP framework used for building web applications. It’s well-known for its self-contained components that seamlessly integrate into any PHP project. Symfony also supports multiple languages, including JavaScript and Node.js…
Mozilla has announced it is ending access to Mozilla Location Service (MLS), which provides accurate, privacy-respecting, and crowdsourced geolocation data. Developers and 3rd-party projects that use MLS to detect a users’ location, such as the f…
As part of work on the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 release Canonical’s engineers have been working on improving the Ubuntu installer — with “provisioning” a key aim. Now the Ubuntu desktop installer uses the same backend technology as Ubunt…
With GNOME 45 released (though point releases will continue) development attention now turns to its follow-up, namely GNOME 46. And the GNOME 46 release schedule is out, giving us a…
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A beta build of Ubuntu 23.10 is now available to download. This development milestone is intended for testing and feedback. It comes ahead of the scheduled stable release of Ubuntu 23.10 on October 12 – a mere 3 weeks away! It’s aim is to a…
Most of us using Ubuntu use the Mozilla Firefox Snap preinstalled by default — and in Ubuntu 23.10 that package comes with a big below-the-surface change. Ubuntu defaults to Wayland but the Firefox Snap currently runs in XWayland mode Canonical has ann…
Good news for those looking forward to the upcoming GNOME 45 release – it’s arrived in the Ubuntu 23.10 daily builds! The next stable update to the world’s most-used Linux desktop environment isn’t due to be released until later this …
I made a little joke — which some people didn’t find funny, alas — about the super bright, glaring white default wallpaper Ubuntu devs added to the Mantic Minotaur daily builds last week. That joke is now even flatter as, following respectable&#x…
The latest nightly builds of the Nautilus file manager sport a split header-bar look. And if all goes to plan, Nautilus’ new two-panel look will roll out to all when…
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Among the many new features in GNOME 45 is keyboard backlight control from the Quick Settings menu. When GNOME 45 (currently in beta) is running on a device with compatible,…
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When Pine64 launched its RISC-V tablet earlier this year they were clear from the start: software support, particularly usable desktop Linux distros, would be lacking at first. But not for…
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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) …
As you may be aware (or you may not – we all lead busy lives) one of GNOME’s Google Summer of Code projects for this year (2023) was to add…
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GNOME developers are “rethinking” the Activities button that appears by default in GNOME Shell’s Top bar. Feedback shows that the word “Activities” doesn’t mean a great deal to users (and…
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