A set of four cool new window opening and closing animations got added to gaudy GNOME Shell extension Burn My Windows this weekend. A veritable Linux eye-candy essential, Burn My Windows makes it easy to apply a variety of visual effects to Ubuntu when…
Read MorePeaZip 10.3 open-source and free archive manager is now available for download with better integration with the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktops, a new Linux theme, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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A new alpha release of System76’s emergent Rust-based COSMIC Desktop environment is out with a clutch of important improvements, bug fixes, and new features in tow. Although COSMIC is very much a work-in-progress (i.e., unfinished, feature incomp…
Read MoreWe’re revising our weekly news quiz which we pretty much abandoned three or four years ago. In this, the second quiz since the reboot there are 11 questions, just like the New York Times New Quiz. So, how much did you pay attention this week to open so…
Read MoreThe second point release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released! Ubuntu Team announced it yesterday afternoon: As usual, this point release includes many updates and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-severity bugs, with a focus on […]
Read MoreMany free open-source apps/projects got updates in past week. They include KDE Plasma 6.3 features panel clone and pixel perfect KWin zoom, GNOME 48 Beta with screen time and HDR settings support. There are as well GIMP 3.0 RC3 with official AppImage support, Go lang 1.24 features full generic type aliases, and TLP 1.8.0 that […]
Read MoreThe Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS release is now available to download, albeit one week later than initially planned. Serving as the second point release in the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS series, Ubuntu 24.04.2 compacts the slew of security, bug, and software …
Read MoreUbuntu 24.04.2 LTS is now available for download as the second point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series with up-to-date components.
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Wallpaper competition for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04, Plucky Puffin, is open! Top 6 winner images will be shipped in the official iso image! This time submissions are separated into 3 categories: Mascot Theme, Digital / Abstract Art, and Photography. Top 2 voted images in each category will appear in the background settings page in Ubuntu […]
Read MoreMozilla Corporation’s president, Mark Surman, today announced plans to tackle what he says are ‘major headwinds’ facing the company’s ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant. “Mozilla’s impact and survival d…
Read MoreA new version of the Mesa graphics library has been released. Mesa 25.0 features Vulkan 1.4 support, which the team bill as the ‘flashiest addition’ in this new development release as it spans Anv (Intel), Asahi (Apple), Lavapipe (software)…
Read MoreMesa 25.0 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for existing graphics drivers, as well as for numerous video games.
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KDE announced the first maintenance update for Plasma 6.3 just a week after it was originally released. As you may know, Plasma 6.3 introduced new feature to resize or move the area of drawing tablet. However, some Linux Distributions are NOT supported due to outdated libinput library. The new release updated the UI to better […]
Read MoreA new version of the Power Profiles Daemon (PPD) was uploaded to the Plucky archives today, and should soon make its way out to Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds —but what’s changed? The power-profiles-daemon is what those of who run Ubuntu (or Linux Min…
Read MoreKDE Plasma 6.3.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with numerous bug fixes and a few improvements.
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This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to bring an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack with it. Ubuntu’s HWE backports newer Linux kernel and Mesa GPU drivers to LTS user…
Read MoreHandBrake video transcoder released new 1.9.1 version a few days ago. Here are the changes and native .deb packages for Ubuntu users. The new HandBrake 1.9.1 contains primarily bug-fixes. It fixed FFV1 pixel format selection when an hardware decoder is used, causing incorrect bit depth output. It also fixed loading video files when chapters titles […]
Read MoreGNOME 48, the Linux desktop environment that will be default for Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Workstation, now is in Beta stage. The release team announced it just a few hours ago in GNOME Discourse, along with an installer image for testing and porting extensions. GNOME added experimental HDR support since version 44. It’s a […]
Read MoreGNOME 48 Beta is now available for public testing with a new GNOME Display Control utility, support for configuring HDR via the DisplayConfig D-Bus API, and more. Here’s what’s new!
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GNOME 47.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, improvements, and updated translations.
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