For those who are interested in the development of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the developer team has opened a channel for the desktop installer usability test. Anyone can try out the desktop installer by simply visiting a page in web browser. It will ask to grant permission to share the screen of browser window (Screen Sharing), […]
Remember Wunderlist? It was a hugely popular, well-made, cloud-based to-do/task app that was free to use on all major mobile and desktop platforms including Linux — until Microsoft bought it and eventually shut it down. Well, now it’s back — sort…
Game developers should be happy to learn that Steam Audio SDK, including all of its plugins, are now covered under the Apache-2.0 license.
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The Libreboot project announced the general availability of a new Libreboot release, version 20240126, which introduces support for new hardware, as well as several improvements and new features.
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Free and open source DJ software, Mixxx, finally released the new major 2.4 version few days ago. The new release added support for exporting crates, playlists and the library to Engine DJ OS devices, including Denon and Numark standalone controllers. Mixxx 2.4 added support for Saved Loops, which can be assigned to any Hot Cue […]
gThumb image viewer and organizer released new 3.12.5 release this Sunday. It is a small release only contains translation updates and a few bug-fixes. Bug fixes in the release include: When the ‘Store metadata inside files if possible’ option is active, comment a picture will delete its Color Profile tag. Build issue with libjxl 0.9 for […]
A new stable version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is available to download. Mozilla Firefox 123 buffs the browser’s privacy-respecting translation. When translating a web page the browser now also translates text shown in tooltips (i.e. tit…
Fans of tiling window managers like i3, Sway, and Hyprland will be interested to hear there’s a new option in town called Miracle-WM. Created by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek, Miracle-WM is notable for being a Wayland compositor that is base…
GNOME 46, the default desktop environment for next Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40, now is in Beta stage. It’s now the best time for developers to test their applications and shell extensions. Gnome 46 features explicit Global Search for the Files, redesigned Privacy settings page, added new System panel in Gnome Control Center, and support […]
Drawpile, free open-source collaborative drawing program, announced new 2.2.1 release yesterday! This is the first update for the 2.2 release series that comes with numerous bug-fixes, as well as some new features. The server now implements WebSocket support, which is available with the –websocket-port and –websocket-listen options. And, it’s improved with some new actions including: […]
The open-source IRC client HexChat has announced its final ever release. HexChat 2.16.2 arrives with a small selection of bug fixes and new features for its long-standing fans to enjoy, but also bad news: after almost 12 years of continued development …
Gambas released new 3.19.0 few days ago. Here’s the new features and how to to install guide for Ubuntu users! Gambas is a full-featured object-oriented language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. It’s made up of a compiler, interpreter, archiver, scripter, development environment, and many extension components, for easily developing command-line, GTK2/GTK3, Qt, […]
Sponsors of elementary OS now have early access to the next major version of the Ubuntu-based desktop Linux operating system. elementary OS 8 is the next major update, following on from this year’s elementary OS 7.x series. It is based on the pac…
Ubuntu Studio, the official Ubuntu flavor, opens wallpaper competition for the next 24.04 LTS release! Ubuntu Studio is one of the official Ubuntu flavors, that features KDE Plasma desktop environment and aims to general multimedia production. The developer team opens the wallpaper competition on February 16. All users (needs login) can submit their own artworks […]
Darktable photography workflow application and RAW developer released new stable 4.6.1 yesterday! The release finished the documentation for the new 4.6 release series, include translations to Ukrainian, Polish and Dutch. And, it now performs image discovery asynchronously in the import dialog. Meaning that long parsing due to huge number of sub-directories and files can be […]
RawTherapee, the free open-source raw photo processing program, announced the new 5.10 release this Friday! It’s been more than 1 year since the last stable release. The new release can now add multiple custom external editors that can be chosen in the Editor tab. The Preferences dialog now has new Favorites tab to add/remove favorite […]
Shotwell photo manager released version 0.32.5, then 0.32.6 with quick fixes, few days ago. The release has better HiDPI displays support, with new .svg app icon that looks way better (perfectly sharp). The release also fixed that the viewer application always opens in maximized window size, as well as missing viewer app icon in dock, […]
The latest version of the GNOME Network Displays app lets you stream your desktop to a wireless display using the Chromecast and Miracast over Infrastructure (MICE) protocols. Both features had been in development for a while and were long-standing req…
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…
We could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us we’ll see a production ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this year’s LinuxFest Northwest.
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