Team disagreements saw progress on SuperTuxKart hit the buffers, but with new leadership and a revived vision, the iconic FOSS racer is getting back on track.
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New terminal and image viewer apps are included in the latest development builds of Ubuntu 25.10, along with a much-hyped switch to Rust-based sudo and, less-hyped, the arrival of new Ubuntu Insights and hwctl packages. Not that most of this is news to…
Read MoreQEMU 10.1 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with new features and improvements for supported architectures. Here’s what’s new!
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Thunderbird 142 release is here with message linking, PDF signatures, Fastmail calendar fixes, and some new-found respect for system Do Not Disturb modes!
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GNOME Software, Linux Mint’s Software Manager, and indie app Warehouse — a few of the desktop frontends available for finding and installing Flatpak apps from Flathub. Bazaar is the latest to join the fray. “A new app store for GNOME with a…
Read MoreParallels Desktop 26 has been released for macOS, a sizeable update expanding the versatility of the paid-for, proprietary virtualisation software. As you’d expect (since I’m covering the update on an Ubuntu blog), the new update includes a…
Read MoreCopyQ, the free open-source clipboard manager, released new 11.0.0 version few days ago. The new release of this Qt-based advanced clipboard manager added some new features and improved scripting support with new class and other changes. First, the release introduced new frameless_window option, allowing to show or hide the header/title-bar and window borders. Simply, launch […]
Read MoreMozilla Firefox is a solid web browser, but what if it was… Better? That question finds its answer in Zen Browser. Zen is a free, open-source Firefox fork available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s not new, having been around since 2024, …
Read MoreDream of hitting the stage and the beach? Your chance to shine—and skip winter—starts with Everything Open in sunny Canberra. Applications close soon, so don’t let this opportunity melt away.
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Today is Linux’s 34th birthday so join me in wishing Linux many more awesome years to come and to celebrate its amazing journey.
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Mozilla’s long-standing antipathy in supporting Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Firefox began to thaw earlier this year, as bods behind the browser finally announced plans to embrace them. And if you installed the Firefox 142 release, you can take…
Read MoreFFmpeg 8.0 introduces Vulkan compute-based codecs for pro-grade video formats, new decoders, Whisper AI transcription, and other assorted improvements.
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The CachyOS ISO snapshot for August 2025 is now available for download with a brand-new dashboard for finding packages and other improvements.. Here’s what’s new!
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FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 8.0 version almost a year since the last 7.1. The new FFmpeg 8.0, codename “Huffman”, added native decoding support for Samsung’s Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec, Apple’s ProRes RAW, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, RealVideo 6.0, G.728, and ADPCM IMA Xbox. It also added encoding support for APV […]
Read MoreHeard of the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) codec? Chances are you have, as this open source, royalty-free video compression standard is championed by the likes of Google, Netflix, Amazon, and even Apple. All for a very good reason (beyond the anyone-is-free-to…
Read MoreHigh Tide, a GTK4/libadawaita app for music streaming service Tidal, has been updated with a bunch of fixes and minor new features. It’s also seen a major version bump, jumping from v0.1.8 to v1.0.0. Given the amount of churn between those two ve…
Read MoreFFmpeg 8.0 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with AV1 Vulkan encoder, VVC VA-API decoding, and more. Here’s what’s new!
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Calibre 8.9 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with improvements to the annotations browser, HTMLZ output, and more.
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A new version of Kdenlive, the free, open source video editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux, has been released with improvements its makers hope “give you a pleasant editing experience”. Kdenlive 25.08.0 improves audio mixing. A redesigned …
Read MoreMozilla’s Thunderbird team announced plans earlier this year to launch Thundermail, their own email service, alongside a premium Thunderbird Pro subscription providing a suite of enhanced features. This week, MZLA Technologies Corporation gave an…
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