For LibreOffice users who are sticking to the native .deb packages, the Ubuntu packaging team finally made the packages through PPA. LibreOffice 25.2 was released 2 months ago with custom theme support, automatic sign document in “Save as” dialog, import/export connections.xml in OOXML, read and write support for ODF 1.4, and many other new features. […]
Open-source video player Celluloid premiered a new release this weekend with user-interface improvements, support for Lua models and more. Celluloid is a popular GTK front-end to MPV, the (incredibly) configurable cross-platform, command-line based med…
APT 3.0 package manager for Debian-based systems is now available with a compeltely revamped command-line interface and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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OpenTelemetry (fondly known as OTel) is an open-source project that provides a unified set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation to capture and export logs, metrics, and traces from applications. The project’s goal is to standardize observab…
A new version of Tauon music player is out, gifting fans of the powerful and unique-looking audio app a raft of new features to play with – including some Linux exclusive eye candy! Tauon 8.0 has been fully ported to SDL3, an efficient cross-platform a…
GNU Octave, the free open-source programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation, rolled out the new 10.1.0 release. The official announcement is not ready at the moment of writing. Though, the source tarball was made available to download since last week. And, I’ve made the package into PPA for all current Ubuntu releases. According […]
Calibre 8.2 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with an updated Kobo driver that includes support for new Tolino firmware and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Digital artists, designers and vector illustrators among you may be be interested to know that an updated version of open source graphics app Inkscape is out. Inkscape 1.4.1 builds on the giant set of features last year’s release of Inkscape 1.4 …
Ubuntu users can enjoy a fresh new desktop wallpaper each and every day with this new app, which sources backgrounds from Bing, Wikimedia, and NASA.
You’re reading Dull Desktop? Install ‘Picture of the Day’ App on Ubuntu, a blog post from O…
A new version of DeaDBeeF music player is out with some cool features, FFMPEG 7 support, and a flurry of bug fixes sure to appease long-time fans of this tool. Admittedly, the popularity of traditional desktop music player apps like this one has dipped…
Mozilla Thunderbird 137 open-source email client is now available for download with various improvements and numerous bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!
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PorteuX 2.0 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.14, GNOME 48 desktop, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 is out today as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and other changes.
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Inkscape 1.4.1, the free open-source vector graphics editor, is out with new features and many bug-fixes. The new version is not officially announced yet, but the source tarball is out and the official PPA has been updated for Ubuntu users. As you see via the screenshot above, the new release introduced a startup splash screen […]
Firefox 138 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with support for copying links for background tabs using the tabstrip context menu and other changes.
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Valve released a new stable Steam Client update on April 1st, 2025, to further improve the download speed of Steam Client updates on Linux and fix various bugs.
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Tab grouping is the latest big-ticket feature addition to get added to Mozilla Firefox, which sees a new stable release roll out from today. Last month’s Firefox 136 update delivered long-requested support for vertical tabs, a redesigned sidebar …
Will Ubuntu 25.10 be codenamed the Quizzical Quokka? It’s an adjective + animal moniker Canonical’s marketing team tersely tweeted earlier today—sans context—but, importantly, today is April 1, aka April’s Fools Day, aka the day when …
A new monthly release of Mozilla Firefox web browser is out. It’s Firefox 137.0! The official announcement is not ready at the moment of writing. But according to the Github release notes page, Firefox 137.0 introduced new experimental tab group feature, allowing to group open tabs together with unique name, color code, which are always […]
March was another stellar month for Linux software updates, with big improvements to essential privacy tools like KeePassXC, creative apps such as Shotcut and DigiKam, and many more — updates that didn’t warrant dedicated articles on this blog. W…