CERN is best known for pushing the boundaries of science and understanding, but the famed research outfit's next major experiment will be with open-source | Continue reading
Deluge 2.0 is the first update to the Deluge torrent client in over two years. Newly ported to Python 3, the app boasts some new features and improvements. | Continue reading
The Atari VCS Linux-powered games console is now available to pre-order from $249, including retailer exclusive console colours and bundles. | Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYvsIenveTY If it feels like only yesterday that Firefox got a new logo it's because, comparatively speaking, it pretty | Continue reading
KDE Neon 5.16 is available to download. The freshly spun ISO offers the latest KDE Plasma 5.16 desktop release atop a stable ubuntu 18.04 LTS base. | Continue reading
We look at Enso OS, a Linux distribution that combines Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the Xfce desktop and several elementaryOS projects into one truly unique distro. | Continue reading
Months in the making, and hyped more than any other release in memory, Plasma 5.16 is finally here! So what's new? Well, what isn't!? Plasma 5.16 is | Continue reading
Do ou want to enable fractional scaling in the Ubuntu 19.04 release (or any distro shipping the GNOME 3.32 release)? If so, you've come to the right post! | Continue reading
Mozilla plan to launch a 'premium' version of the Firefox web browser later this year. Mozilla CEO revealed the news in an interview with T3N. | Continue reading
Open-source music creation tool LMMS has issued its first stable update in over 4 years! The previous stable release of the music composing, sequencer and | Continue reading
A massive redesign of the desktop Steam client is on the way — and newly leaked screenshots give us an early glimpse of how it'll look. The SteamDB | Continue reading
I share my thoughts on the Lenovo V330-14ARR laptop, including battery life, screen quality, specs — oh, and how well Ubuntu 19.04 runs on it. | Continue reading
VLC 3.0.7 is now available to download. We recap the changes and show you how to install or upgrade to VLC 3.0.7 on Ubuntu using a PPA or a Snap app. | Continue reading
Snaps are a 'must try' thing in Linuxland, and because they work across multiple Linux distributions, from Arch to Fedora, it's dead simple to sample 'em! | Continue reading
Kdenlive developers sure don't show any signs of slowing down anytime soon, which is great news for open-source video editing fans. The team has issued | Continue reading
Google Stadia launches in in November but gamers will need to buy a $129 Stadia Founders Pack to join the fun. We look at Stadia subscription cost & launch. | Continue reading
The distro's GNOME MPV (which is now known as Celluloid) will be the default media player in Ubuntu MATE 19.10. The app is set to supplant the versatile | Continue reading
I haven't used a Windows desktop "properly" for around 8 years or so (and can't say I miss it, either). Back when I started this blog I had a multi-boot | Continue reading
Zorin OS 15 is now available to download, based on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. In this you'll learn more about Zorin OS 15's new features and improvements. | Continue reading
Google Chrome 75 is the latest stable release of Google's popular web browser, but it's pretty low on any major user-facing changes or features. | Continue reading
The LibreOffice 6.3 beta is out, but it brings some bad news for 32-bit Linux desktop users. The free office suite is dropping 32-bit support for Linux. | Continue reading
Tetris turns 35 on June 6, so to mark the occasion we show you how to play Tetris in the terminal on Linux desktops like Ubuntu. It's quick, easy and fun! | Continue reading
It just got easier to install Wine 4.0 on Linux Mint 19 thanks to a backport by Linux Mint developers and a new meta package to streamline install. | Continue reading
Confession: I haven't been keeping a very close eye on KDE Plasma development this year — but when I heard they had unveiled a new wallpaper, my interest | Continue reading
The Authenticator GTK app lets you generate 2FA tokens for over 500 well-known services, straight from the Linux desktop. We look at the new release. | Continue reading
Foliate is a new ebook reader app for Linux desktops whose streamlined, stylish GUI recently caught my eye. While I, personally, still find it easier to | Continue reading
Open-source GUI partition editor GParted has finally reached the version 1.0 milestone, after more than 14 years of 0.x numbered releases. | Continue reading
Did you know that Canonical's Snap store is available to install as a Snap app? If, like me, you didn't, you most certainly do now! The 'Snap Store' app | Continue reading
A brand new version of Krita, a powerful open-source graphics programme written in Qt, is available to download. Described by the Krita development team | Continue reading
Ubuntu 19.10 will include proprietary Nvidia graphics drivers directly on the installation ISO. "This addition is a first for Ubuntu, but could | Continue reading
Users can sync OneDrive files on Linux using a beta build of third-party cloud storage sync client Insync, which is available for free during testing. | Continue reading
The upcoming release of GNOME 3.34 will finally solve a long standing deficiency in the desktop's background wallpaper management. Now, I've written about | Continue reading
group of independent Linux app developers have written an open letter to the wider GNOME community to ask dilators to "stop theming our apps". | Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox 67 is the latest version of the popular web-browser — and it's been dubbed the 'fastest yet'. Read to learn more about Firefox 67 features. | Continue reading
Linux is an educated choice South Korean plans to switch government computers to Linux based software, ditching Windows in the process. The country's | Continue reading
Welcome to another instalment of the content strand where I tell you about things I saw on Twitter that, if we're honest, you probably saw on Twitter too. | Continue reading
Remotely is a small VNC viewer client for Ubuntu Linux desktops. It is simple to use and supports common VNC authentication methods. | Continue reading
A brand new version of Peppermint OS, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, is available to download. "Peppermint OS is pitched as a 'lightning fast, | Continue reading
Superpaper is an advanced multi monitor wallpaper tool for Linux and Windows desktops with bezel correction, PPI correction, and alignment testing. | Continue reading
Few text editors are as famous or as loved as Notepad++, and in this post we show you how to install Notepad++ in Ubuntu. Notepad++ is a free, open-source | Continue reading
These mockups from the GNOME design team showcase an vastly improved notification area and calendar for the GNOME Shell desktop. | Continue reading
Stacer is a system optimizer and cleaner tool for Linux desktops like Ubuntu. Learn more about its features and how to install Stacer on Ubuntu. | Continue reading
A bug-fix update to the refactored version of Qt-based video editor Kdenlive is available for download. The first point release in the Kdenlive 19.04 | Continue reading
Dang it! Another week has only gone and flapped past my ears while I sat here squinting awkwardly at Twitter. And what of the tweets that whizzed by my | Continue reading
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, aka WSL 2, attracted a lot of attention when announced earlier this week, and a new video from Microsoft offers a closer | Continue reading
Learn the Ubuntu 19.10 release date and planned features for the next Ubuntu release, codenamed 'Eoan Ermine', and due October 2019. | Continue reading
Google has apparently said that every Chromebook launched in 2019 will support Linux apps, according to an Android Police update on Google I/O 2019. | Continue reading
The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) sees Microsoft ship a real Linux kernel inside Windows 10 for the first time. | Continue reading