An updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension to put now playing track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with animated flourishes, is out. If you’re prone some desk-side crooning, Dynamic Music Pill v1.3.0 brings two new…
Read MoreA new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 fixes a number of PDF-related issues, including a conversion error that could occur on Linux distributions shipping an ‘a…
Read MoreThe Children’s Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.
Read MoreThe release is powered by Debian 13.5 and Linux 7.0, with NVIDIA Grace and Vera systems fully supported.
Read MoreMoxa confirmed the Intellio hardware was discontinued back in 2021, but the driver only left the kernel recently after AI agents started poking at the dead code.
Read MoreGNOME 50, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44 Workstation, released its 4th maintenance today. The new version, GNOME 50.4, fixed various crashes, security issues for GDM login screen, and the annoying app search function not working issue. Fix Gnome App Search is not working in Ubuntu 26.04 In my case in […]
Read MoreGNOME Boxes, GNOME’s virtualization software for running operating systems in virtual machines, released the Beta for next 51 version. The new version is finally ported from GTK3 to GTK4 plus LibAdwaita, making its user interface look modern and native in recent GNOME Desktops. This version also switched from SPICE protocol to Libmks, a GTK4-friendly library […]
Read MoreResources 51 beta, the system monitor Ubuntu now uses, adds AMD NPU stats, PowerPC CPU temps and alternative memory-usage metrics.
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Rhythmbox 3.5.0 is out and it now lets you sync podcast subscriptions and listening progress across apps – the standout feature in the music player’s first major release in nine months. A new podcast plugin ties into the gpodder.net API so …
Read MoreKDE Plasma, the popular Linux desktop environment, released new 6.7.4 bug-fix and stability release yesterday. The new desktop version introduced multi-GPU and display handling improvements, better input, accessibility, and UI consistency, and various fixes across the desktop, KWin, and other components. For computer with multiple GPUs, it now keeps the GPU without any display output […]
Read MoreBuilt by a single engineer using open source components, GenOffice bundles editors like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDF.
Read MoreHis new policy keeps AI patches out of drivers/staging, the tree meant for newcomers to learn kernel development.
Read MoreThe release also adds lrclib.net, sidecar .lrc files, and embedded Ogg lyrics as new sources.
Read MoreFFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 9.0 version today. The new version of this library introduced some new decoders and encoders, hardware accelerated encoders and filters for better performance, as well as many other new features. First, FFmpeg 9.0 introduced decoding animated WebP images support, as well as, extracting its individual […]
Read MoreFan of the the Papirus icon theme will be pleased to hear there a new update – the first since May 2025. For Papirus’s first update in 2026 (the tardiness of which its maintainer, Serhii Yeremenko, apologises) brings over 80 new icons or updated …
Read MoreA full rewrite moves it to GTK4 and Libadwaita, with Windows 11 support being tidied up.
Read MoreNVIDIA announced the 610.57.04 driver along with 595.91.07 for Linux this monday! The production branch driver 595.91.07 includes only many bug fixes and improvements, while the 610.57.04 feature branch driver fixed crashes in many games. For Steam users or those who play Windows games in Linux through Proton, the new NVIDIA 610 driver fixed STALKER […]
Read MoreDropbeat is a new riff on a old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of this ilk are legion, and this panel applet doesn’t d…
Read MoreUbuntu is moving hwctl from Deb package to snap-only distribution, a change Canonical says improves security and desktop integration.
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images have been missing curl – accidentally, it turns out, so Canonical has put it back. Curl is a commonly-used command-line tool for fetching files from remote servers. It’s called on in countless install…
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