Want to check your battery health in Ubuntu from the command-line, no need to install anything extra? Most of using Ubuntu on a laptop will monitor battery level from the top bar (enabling battery percentage in the top bar is something I always do), and dive into the Settings > P … | Continue reading
DeepComputing has unveiled an new version of its DC-ROMA RISC-V tablet — and this one runs Ubuntu! The DC-ROMA RISC-V Pad II boasts a 10.1 inch (1920×1200) IPS 10-point touch display, and is powered by the same SpacemiT K1 SoC found in their RISC-V Ubuntu laptop (which launched w … | Continue reading
A new version of the popular open-source office suite LibreOffice has been released. LibreOffice 24.8 builds on the improvements shipped in the LibreOffice 24.2 release earlier this year. That release updated the versioning scheme to a data-based format, which this one follows. T … | Continue reading
Canonical has announced it will not ship stable release kernel updates during September. Critical security and bug fixes will be packaged up and pushed out to users when/if needed, but the routine rollup releases which typically arrive every few weeks will …not. Announcing the br … | Continue reading
Ever wished you could use your Raspberry Pi 5, Android smartphone, or mini PC as a laptop? The CrowView Note, which hit Kickstarter last week, allows you to do precisely that. From a cursory glance Elecrow’s CrowView Note looks a lot like a regular laptop. It has a 14.1-inch scre … | Continue reading
Launched less than a year ago, the Raspberry Pi 5 has proven widely popular with single-board computing fans and Linux ARM enthusiasts thanks to its increased performance, memory, and PCIe bus for expansion. But until now the Raspberry Pi 5 has only been available in two variants … | Continue reading
Do you like the idea of using the same profile picture for your Ubuntu user account as you use on Gravatar? If so, there’s a GNOME Shell extension that syncs your Gravatar profile picture to your GNOME Shell user account. It currently only supports GNOME 46, so if you’re using Ub … | Continue reading
A new Mozilla logo appears to be on the way, marking the company’s first major update to its work mark since 2017. And that logo, which incorporates the internet protocol “://”, has grown to become rather synonymous with the company (albeit not as iconic as the red dragon). Now, … | Continue reading
Do you want to try the latest Thunderbird 128 release but don’t want to use the snap package available in Ubuntu? Your first thought might be to run sudo apt install thunderbird to install the DEB version of Thunderbird from the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS repos. But like Firefox and Chromi … | Continue reading
Ubuntu 24.10 is released in October and will mark the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu. So it’s only fitting that the release offer a few ‘easter eggs’ in honour if its past. And there’s nothing as retro-Ubuntu than the colour brown, right? In a nod to the first ever Ubuntu release, Ub … | Continue reading
Proton, the company behind a suite of privacy-focused services, has made the Proton VPN Chrome and Firefox extensions available to those with a Proton Free plan. Prior to now, only users who subscribed to a paid Proton VPN tier were able to use its official web extensions for Moz … | Continue reading
The first Ubuntu 24.04 LTS point release won’t be released this week, as initially planned. Ubuntu developers had been aiming to get Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS out of the door on Thursday, August 19th but has had to postpone the release due to a number of ‘high-impact upgrade bugs’ being … | Continue reading
The first Thunderbird 130 beta release is out, and when running it on Linux there’s a very obvious new feature: a tray icon! In the Thunderbird 130 beta release notes the ‘what’s new’ section lists “added Linux system tray icon”, and what’s mind-blowing about the addition is that … | Continue reading
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users experiencing issues setting up Fastmail and mailbox.org providers in GNOME Online Accounts to access cloud files, calendars, and/or contacts will be pleased to hear a fix is inbound. Both aforementioned services support WebDAV, CalDAV, and CardDAV, making i … | Continue reading
Ever been miffed when reading about a major new Ubuntu release only to learn it does not include the latest Linux kernel? Well, that’ll soon be a thing of the past. Future Ubuntu releases will ship the latest upstream kernel, even if it’s still ‘Release Candidate’ status Canonica … | Continue reading
TUXEDO Computers has unleashed their latest Linux laptop, the InfinityFlex 14 — as you might have guessed from the name, it flips and folds. The company touts their dextrous new device as ‘the first 3-in-1 Linux convertible’, with its 360-degree hinge1 allowing the touch-enabled … | Continue reading
You’ve heard about System76’s new COSMIC desktop environment, you’ve seen screenshots and and video clips of it, but now it’s time for you to go hands on, and take it for a test flight. Yes, the first alpha COMSIC desktop environment is out, as the Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha available t … | Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox 129 is now available download, and comes with a couple of features customisation fans are sure to enjoy. It’s been 4 weeks since Firefox 128 dished out a unified cookie, cache n’ data clearing experience, the ability to translate portions of text on a web page, an … | Continue reading
As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This is non-default package is “a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to GNOME Shell” that are developed and maintained … | Continue reading
A new version of Qt-based music player Amarok is available to download. Amarok 3.1 lands three months after Amarok 3.0, which was the first release in nearly 6 years and saw the audio player’s developers complete their port to Qt 5 (which receives further polish here, in 3.1). Bu … | Continue reading
The latest Firefox Nightly build provides a feature that dramatically improves how its picture-in-picture (PIP) feature works — and I’m totally digging it! In current stable versions of Firefox you pop-out video content from (supported) websites like YouTube and Amazon Prime manu … | Continue reading
Google has announced a clutch of new AI-powered features have begun rolling out to users of Chrome on Windows, macOS, and —for once!— Linux. Chrome’s Vice President Parisa Tabriz unveiled the trio of AI features, which are all powered by the latest Google Gemini AI models, on The … | Continue reading
AppImages are great: a single runtime containing all of the dependencies needed for an app to run in a double-click binary that can be run from anywhere on your system. And therein lies the rub. When I download an AppImage for software like Audacity, Kdenlive, etc., it’s usually … | Continue reading
JetBrains users wondering when Wayland support might land should check out the latest ‘Early Access Program’ (EAP) builds released earlier this month – Wayland preview, ahoy! At present, all of JetBrains’ IntelliJ-based IDEs on Linux run in a Wayland session use XWayland (the X s … | Continue reading
Last May, Canonical announced that a hardware-accelerated version of the Chromium snap was available for testing on Intel (7th-gen and later) hardware. Hardware acceleration on the modern web is a real boon. VP8, VP9, H.264, and AV1 codecs are in wide use, and modern GPUs (integr … | Continue reading
If you plan on trying the new Linux Mint 22 release in a virtual machine, why not double-up the fun by taking it for a spin in the VirtualBox 7.1 beta, which slipped out last night. Don’t tune out—most VirtualBox updates are fairly modest, I know. But the upcoming release of Virt … | Continue reading
Linux Mint 22 ‘Wilma’ is officially released and available to download. This major update is the first version built on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. As such, Linux Mint 22 inherits a comprehensive set of updates to underlying package, library, tooling, and technology stacks. A new Linux ker … | Continue reading
Love the idea of tinkering around with a small, single-board computer (SBC) but need something more powerful than most ARM-based offerings provide? If so, the Radxa X4 may be of interest. Powered by a quad-core Intel N100 processor with Intel UHD graphics, the Radxa X4 costs the … | Continue reading
Course set: the first alpha of Pop_OS 24.04 is scheduled for release on August 8th. So if you’ve been counting the days until you can try the new COSMIC desktop environment first hand… Well, keep counting until then! 😅 Pop!_OS 24.04 will based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and inh … | Continue reading
FBReader 2.1 has been released for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with the team behind the eBook reading app calling it “a major update for desktop platforms”. If you’re not familiar with FBReader (the name stands for ‘Favourite Book Reader’) it’s a Qt-based ebook reader with customi … | Continue reading
If you’ve tried the Tiling Shell GNOME extension you’ll know how easy it makes it to tile application windows in GNOME Shell, from simple to more complex. The latest update, which began rolling out through the GNOME Extensions website this weekend, adds yet another intuitive way … | Continue reading
I recently rediscovered my Amazon Kindle (a geriatric model from 2012, nothing fancy) and figured, as it still works, I’ll use it, and set about downloading a freely available EPUBs of classic (and not-so-classic – I’m a pulpy-kinda guy) literature. They say never judge a book by … | Continue reading
Were you excited by news GNOME plans to replace the Totem media player in its core software set with a new, modern, and actively maintained alternative called Showtime? If so, you’ll be pleased to hear that this promising replacement is now available on Flathub. This means you do … | Continue reading
OBS Studio, the open-source leader in cross-platform screen-casting and streaming software, put out a new release this week. OBS Studio 30.2 adds Linux support to the native NVENC encoder, plus Linux shared texture support to the NVENC, QuickSync, and VA-API encoders. And as of t … | Continue reading
A new version of the open-source, cross-platform audio editor Audacity is available to download, kitted out with some major new features. Audacity 3.6 introduces support for master effects. These adjust the sound of project as a whole (the ‘master mix’ composed of all individual … | Continue reading
A new version of open-source 3D graphics software Blender is available to download. Blender 4.2 LTS lands with a lengthy list of new features, a plethora of performance improvements, and the general fixes and tune-ups you’d expect from a well-maintained open-source project. This … | Continue reading
The recent update to AppArmor to fix issues with 3rd-party apps unable to run on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS due to its security hardening inadvertently prevents a fleet of popular Flatpak apps from running. The Telegram Desktop, KeePassXC, and Steam clients are among Flatpak apps affected, … | Continue reading
When Scott suggested I cover a new open-source app for Linux on the basis it’s “like Microsoft PowerToys for developers”, I wasn’t exactly sure what I’d be writing about — when it comes to Windows I’m more familiar with pinball that PowerToys. But after reading the website for De … | Continue reading
Linux kernel 6.10 has been officially released. The latest version of the Linux kernel adds an array of improvements, including a new memory sealing system call, a speed boost for AES-XTS encryption on Intel and AMD CPUs, and expanding Rust language support within the kernel to R … | Continue reading
This weekend Apple officially approved the first PC emulator on the App Store, an open-source app called UTM SE, based on QEMU, and entirely free (entirely; no icky IAPs) to download. UTM SE is able to emulate a variety of desktop operating systems and system architectures, inclu … | Continue reading
A major update to the open-source e-mail client Thunderbird is now available to download. Thunderbird 128 ‘Nebula’ builds on last year’s stellar Thunderbird 115 release with a flurry of new features, major code improvements, and bug fixes. And like the recent Firefox 128 release … | Continue reading
Ubuntu’s Flutter-based App Center can now open and install 3rd-party DEB installers. An App Center update that adds support for ‘side-loading’ DEB packages began rolling out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in the past few weeks (but as snaps update in the background silently, withou … | Continue reading
A big overhaul of the GNOME extensions website is in the works. As the recent revamp of Flathub proved, engaging store fronts for software and extensions are not the preserve of big-time tech companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Good design is good design. GNOME Extension … | Continue reading
Hurrah, the open-source editor Zed is now available for Linux. Zed is a GPL licensed IDE written in Rust by the authors of the (much missed) Atom editor and the creators of Tree-sitter. It offers everything a modern IDE should: Plus, as it’s 2024 so AI was made mandatory in all t … | Continue reading
News that GNOME’s design team is looking to make Inter the default font in GNOME 47 got me curious about what the typeface might look in action. Why Inter? This clean, open-source sans-serif font is designed specifically for user interfaces. It’s legible and clear at various size … | Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox 128 is now available download, freshly stocked with some sweet new features. It’s been three weeks since Firefox 127 delivered a deft new way to get rid of duplicate tabs, bolstered security by auto-upgrading mixed-content elements in webpages, and souped-up its i … | Continue reading
There are a lot of reasons to love the Raspberry Pi 5, and the inclusion of a single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface for expansion is, for me, chief among them. I bought an inexpensive Pimoroni NVMe Base to use an M.2 SSD with my Pi 5 (for a stonkingly faster experience than a slo … | Continue reading
Anyone making use of Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” should be aware that official support for the release ends on July 11, 2024. Which, to reorient the blissfully slow who, like me, feel 2024 is still new, is this week: July 11 is on Thursday. What happens when support for an Ubu … | Continue reading