Budgie, the independent free open-source desktop environment, released new 10.10 version today. This is the final feature release in the 10.x series, as the dev team has formally put it into maintenance mode, and focus on the development of the next Budgie 11. Budgie 10.10 switched to Wayland session by default for better security and […]
Read MoreUbuntu 24.04.4 LTS’s updated hardware enablement stack (HWE) brings Linux Kernel 6.17, Mesa 25.2.7 and a new set of Wayland Protocols – a nice uplift, right?
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Canonical’s ARM64 Steam Snap brings x86 gaming to Ubuntu ARM systems via FEX emulation. Early testing shows 200+ FPS in Cyberpunk 2077. You can help test it.
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Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ reaches end of life on January 15, 2025. Users must upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10 to keep receiving critical security updates.
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Elecrow’s CrowView Note 15.6 addresses complaints from the original with a larger screen, USB-C charging, and expanded SBC support. Priced at $169.
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Bazaar Flatpak manager adds permission warnings showing app safety, Flathub account sync, verified-only filtering, and a neat new ‘market stall’ app icon.
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Dell revives XPS brand with redesigned 14 and 16-inch laptops. Ubuntu 24.04 support coming to XPS 14 later this year. Details and specs inside.
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What changed in Ubuntu in 2025? From the “oxidisation” of sudo to the end of X11, here’s a recap of the 10 biggest changes the distro saw last year.
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I roundup a crop of December’s smaller Linux app releases, including the Clapper media player, QEMU virtualisation tool, Scribus DTP and ONLYOFFICE.
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Open source video editor Shotcut 25.12 adds 10-bit CPU pipeline support, linear color processing, and better hardware encoding on Linux.
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Raspberry Pi has begun selling a 1TB M.2 2230 SSD for use with the Raspberry Pi 5. It joins the company’s PCIe Gen 3 256 & 512GB SSDs announced earlier this year.
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It feels like I barely go a day without writing about Firefox (Ubuntu’s default web browser) or yet-more “AI” (quote marks mainly for the ‘I’, there) features being shoved inside of things — but news is news! Microsoft CoP…
Read MoreThe release candidate (RC) of GNOME Desktop 49 is out for testing purpose! This is the final development release for GNOME 49, while the stable release is planned for September 17th. It added some new features, various bug-fixes, and improvements. As you may know, GNOME 49 removed the ‘Gnome on Xorg’ session since the alpha […]
Read MoreCalibre 8.10 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with improvements to the Kindle MTP driver and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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A new version of miracle-wm, the Mir-based compositor/tiling window manager looking to rival Hyprland, is out with a welcome set of improvements.
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Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu LTS based Linux Distro, announced new 22.2 point release today. Linux Mint 22.2, code-name “Zara”, is the second update for the 22 release series that’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 with support until 2029. The release introduced new XApp called Fingwit, which provides a graphical interface to record and manage your […]
Read MoreGNOME 49 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for public testing ahead of the final release on September 17th, 2025. Here’s what’s new!
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GNOME 49 re-enables X11 session support in GDM after it broke the ability to launch other desktop environments. It plans full removal in GNOME 50.
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Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ is now available to download, and upgrades from earlier releases enabled. A host of refinements are on offer in this new stable release: improved visuals, the ability to authenticate commands with a fingerprint, and q…
Read MoreWarp, the Agentic Development Environment, for Windows, macOS and Linux has launched a suite of new features to improve prompt-based coding.
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