Firefox is adding hardware-accelerated Vulkan Video decoding, saving Nvidia users on Linux the hassle of manually configuring the nvidia-vaapi-driver package. The change will be included in Firefox 153, out July 21, but it will not be enabled by defaul…
Read MoreUbuntu is working on speech-to-text AI transcription so you can talk to type. It’s powered by project Myna. Here’s how it’ll work and why it’s adding it.
You’re reading Ubuntu’s ‘Myna’ project lets you talk instead of type – what is i…
The Lumo 2.0 Max model reportedly feels just as sharp as the latest offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Read MoreThe open standard would tie every agent’s identity to certificates and a public transparency log nobody can edit.
Read MoreThe laptop starts at $2,899 and scales up to an eye-watering $11,944 for a custom config.
Read MoreEvery wondered what GIMP looked like in 1996, before GTK? Well, now you can. Developer balooii has packaged GIMP 0.54 as a Flatpak that runs on modern 64-bit Linux desktops with Wayland. It’s apparently the earliest version of the app with the so…
Read MoreShotcut, the free open-source MLT based video editor, finally announced the 26.6 release after a month of Beta testing. The new version of this Qt-based video editor introduced some new plugins support, HDR preview, Vulkan in FFmpeg, external monitor improvements, and various bug-fixes. First, the new version introduced limited support for external audio and video […]
Read MoreUbuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 is available to download, the second of four snapshots planned for the ‘Stonking Stingray’ development cycle ahead of a stable release in October. As with the first snapshot, there’s not a lot “new”…
Read MoreUbuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2, the second monthly development release, was officially announced last night! The new development release finally added back the .iso image for Intel/AMD platform, and, introduced new cdimage download tree. The new snapshot release changed the cdimage.ubuntu.com download tree structure. All the release images are now located in /ubuntu/releases and /ubuntu-server/releases. And, […]
Read MoreNew GTK4/libadwaita app Whisp is positioning itself as the note-taking app for people fed up with note-taking apps (the best one is always the next one, right?). Scratch that; Whisp pitches itself as “the anti-note for GNOME”, a riff on Ant…
Read MoreCanonical has brought Livepatch to Arm64 devices for the first time, allowing Ubuntu systems on Arm hardware to apply critical kernel security patches without a full reboot. Livepatch is one of Ubuntu’s best hidden security features – itR…
Read MoreA new update to System76’s COSMIC desktop is now rolling out with a new system monitoring tool and a fresh set of fixes and fine-tuning. COSMIC Epoch 1.1.0 also sees the developers behind the Rust-based desktop opting to “[increment] the mi…
Read MoreCanonical’s Livepatch finally extends to the platform in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 26.
Read MoreA new version of miracle-wm, the Wayland compositor built on Mir with an i3/Sway style tiling window manager, has been released. Developer Matthew Kosarek, a Canonical engineer developing this keyboard-driven UX in his free time, says the new v0.1…
Read MoreBudsLink is a Linux app giving you more control over Bluetooth earbuds from the likes of Apple, Sony, Samsung and Nothing – battery levels, active noise cancellation (ANC) and more, all without needing to use a mobile app. Most Bluetooth audio devices …
Read MoreGDM Settings, the settings app for GNOME’s login screen (aka GDM Display Manager), is officially paused! The main developer and maintainer of the project, Mazhar Hussain, announced the project is on old in last week via this issue: So, for now, the development of this app is on hold, and I’m not sure for how […]
Read MoreDarktable, the popular free open-source photography and raw developer application, released new major 5.6.0 version today! The new version introduced optional AI sub-system, UI/UX and performance improvements, as well as many fixes and other changes. The AI sub-system is disabled by default. If you build Darktable from source, then you need to configure with -DUSE_AI=ON […]
Read MoreFFmpeg, the popular free open-source multi-media library, released the second maintenance update for its 8.1 release series a few days ago. The new version of this media library comes with more than a hundred of changes, mainly include bug-fixes, stability improvements, as well as some minor new features. First, the new version added two new […]
Read MoreIf you are into rogue-like games, this one might be the one to get on Linux.
Read MoreMyna runs entirely on local hardware and is set to debut with Ubuntu 26.10.
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