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Ubuntu Touch gets big browser update, notch & printing support

Notch support, a screenshot editor and a more modern web browser engine are among changes arriving with the latest update to Ubuntu Touch, the community-run mobile operating system based on Ubuntu. With many devices supported by Ubuntu Touch, like Fair…

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A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment

Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in prison after the passcode he gave CBP agents wiped his phone.

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Enable/Disable The New Virtualization HWE stack in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu announced a virtualization HWE stack for the latest Ubuntu 26.04 LTS one day ago. Check what it is and how to enable or disable it. As you may know, Ubuntu LTS features hardware enablement (HWE) stack that backports most recent kernels and Mesa graphics drivers from newer Ubuntu releases, for example Ubuntu 24.04 now […]

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Fooyin Music Player 0.12.0 Added PulseAudio Output & New Visualizer Plugins

Fooyin, the Foobar2000 alternative music player with native Linux support, released new 0.12.0 version today. The new version of this free open-source Qt music player added native PulseAudio audio output, audio conversion, three new visualization plugins, as well as many improvements and bug-fixes. Modern Linux Distributions have switched to PipeWire sound server, but the traditional […]

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OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations

They point to MCP, built by two engineers in London, that ended up under US-based governance.

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Mission Center update brings battery and power reporting + more

A new version of Linux system monitoring app Mission Center is available for download, adding new hardware stats, first-run setup prompt and bug fixes. Mission Center 1.2.0 adds a new Battery page in the Performance tab, surfaces per-partition usage de…

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FireDragon Browser Swoops in With New Wings

It’s been rewritten from scratch to provide some good gains.

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The FFmpeg GUI Frame 0.32.0 Released with UI Scaling Support

Frame, the free open-source graphical front end for FFmpeg media library, released new 0.32.0 version for Linux, Windows, and macOS. For those who never heard of Frame, it’s a Rust written application that use GPUI-CE (the community edition of GPU-accelerated user interface framework) for a modern graphical interface to manage FFmpeg operations. As you see […]

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Mission Center 1.2.0 Released with Battery Monitoring

Mission Center, the modern popular Linux system monitor application, released new 1.2.0 version one day ago. The new version of this free open-source Rust written and GTK4/LibAdwaita based application finally added monitoring support for laptop battery. It now displays a battery page in the Performance tab, drawing the graphs for battery input and output in […]

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Chrome finally arrives on Arm64 Linux, Widevine DRM included

You can now install an official Google Chrome build on Arm64 Linux devices, including the Raspberry Pi. Back in March, Google promised Chrome for Arm64 Linux in “Q2 2026” so users on SBCs, AI desktops and the growing-fleet of&#160…

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RawTherapee 5.13 Adds Tool Enhancements & New Cameras Support

After more than a year of development, the RawTherapee raw photo development program, was finally tagged the new 5.13 version. The new version of this free open-source raw developer enhanced its built-in tools, improved HiDPI support, and added support for more cameras, raw formats, and color profiles. This version enhanced the Gamut Compression tool with […]

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How to Completely Remove &

Auto-cpufreq, automatic CPU speed & power optimizer tool for Linux, released new 3.1.0 version an hour ago. The new version of this free open-source tool improved its graphical user interface with some new functions, and fixed various bugs. First, the new version introduced a Monitor Mode for its GTK UI. Without installing the daemon for […]

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Wine 11.14 Released with W 21 Bug-fixes FreeBSD & 21 Bug-fixes

Wine, the free open-source software for running Windows applications and games in Linux, macOS, and BSD, released new 11.14 development version. The new version added WoW64 support for FreeBSD, allowing to run 32-bit Windows applications on a 64-bit system without needing a separate 32-bit Wine installation environment. It added support for the AES-GMAC cryptographic algorithm […]

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The Bootable USB Creator Ventoy 1.1.17 added Athena OS & EulerOS Support

Ventoy, the popular solution for booting .iso images from USB, released new 1.1.17 version one day ago. The new version of this free open-source software added two new Linux Distributions support, optimized Secure Boot process, and fixed many issues. Different to the traditional bootable USB creator (e.g., Rufus, UNetbootin), Ventoy create a small (around 34 […]

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GNOME Added Support Resizing / Moving Screenshot Selection via Keyboard

GNOME, the popular Linux Desktop, finally added keyboard navigation support for its built-in screenshot UI in the main branch. Meaning if everything goes well, the next Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45 Workstation and other Linux with GNOME 51, will be able to use keyboard arrow keys to move or resize the screenshot selection area. As you […]

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Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But That Was Intentional

Luckily, a fix is already out, shipped as a security update.

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Codeberg Has Drawn a Hard Line on Use of AI With Community Backing

While many projects are warming up to AI, Codeberg went the other way.

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LibreOffice 26.2.5 Released! Skia Rendering Disabled by Default & Various Fixes

LibreOffice, the office suite that’s default many Linux such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE, released new 26.2.5 version today. The new version of this free open-source office suite is the fifth maintenance update for the 26.2 branch, which features only bug fixes and stability improvements. For macOS and Windows, the open-source 2D graphics library Skia […]

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Firefox’s new tab page adds AI-powered daily crossword widget

More widgets are coming to Firefox’s New Tab page, including an interactive crossword puzzle powered by the AI news reader Particle. The mini crossword game is updated daily, with puzzles based around recent content Particle‘s AI has ingest…

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Ubuntu to Fix A 20 Years Old Bug by Removing /etc/debian_version

Ubuntu is finally going to remove the /etc/debian_version file to close a bug that was reported almost 21 years ago on July 31, 2005. The Debian and Ubuntu developer, Benjamin Drung, announced the decision on Ubuntu Devel channel: Hi everyone, any objection to remove /etc/debian_version from base-files? /etc/os-release has been the de-facto standard in the […]

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