Impression is a excellent image writing tool for Linux desktops, and with its latest release it’s become even more useful. How so? By making it seriously easy to download ISO images for a wide range of Linux distros directly within the app itself, including new-ish versions of Ub … | Continue reading
A new version of GSConnect, the GNOME Shell extension that integrates with KDE Connect, is now available — and it supports GNOME 45. GSConnect bridges the gap between GNOME Shell and an Android device with the KDE Connect Android app installed to streamline file transfers between … | Continue reading
BleachBit, the popular free system cleaner, has just released a major update — its first since 2021. For those unfamiliar with it, BleachBit is a free and open-source system cleaner available for Windows and Linux, written in Python and GTK. Like other apps of its type, BleachBit … | Continue reading
Keeping an eye on current weather conditions is something a lot of us do, and there are ample ways to get real-time weather information on the Ubuntu desktop. The GNOME Weather desktop app (available in the Ubuntu repos) is a great tool as not only can you open the app to see wea … | Continue reading
The French Ubuntu community is celebrating the release of Ubuntu 23.10 in style, with the launch of a brand new t-shirt. Available in a variety of sizes, the charcoal grey shirt carries a custom design featuring a minotaur (of course) in classic dress looking très mantic. An anci … | Continue reading
A brand new version of Audacity, the open-source audio workstation, has been released. Audacity 3.4 includes a number of new features and improvements, include new music workflows that will greatly enhance the editor’s appeal with musicians. One of the biggest new features in Aud … | Continue reading
Looking to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10 from Ubuntu 23.04? Good news: you can! If you’re full up-to-date and you have an active internet connection you can upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur’ directly. There’s no need to download an ISO, flash it to a USB, wipe your existing ins … | Continue reading
Papirus, the popular icon pack for Linux desktops, has received a new update for November 2023. The latest version adds new icons for a slew of software, including many apps distributed on Flathub, as well as a redesigned icon for GNOME Console and a revamped animated spinner gly … | Continue reading
Daily builds for Ubuntu 24.04 are now available for download. Development on Ubuntu 24.04, which will become the next long-term support release upon its official release in April 2024, kicked off last week. Ubuntu daily builds are pre-release versions of Ubuntu generated every da … | Continue reading
NVIDIA has released a new driver for Linux that adds support for the Night Light feature in GNOME. Night Light is a feature that reduces the amount of blue light emitted from your display, which can (studies show) help to improve sleep quality, and reduce eye fatigue. It’s availa … | Continue reading
Want to playback a lecture recording, transcribe an interview, or listen to a podcast episode without adding it to your music library? Check out Decibels, a novel new audio player for Linux written in Typescript and GTK4/libadwaita. While Decibels can play music files, it is not … | Continue reading
Mozilla has announced a new APT repository to make it easier to install Firefox Nightly builds on Debian-based Linux distros, including Ubuntu. This post, Mozilla Makes Firefox Nightly Easier to Install on Ubuntu is from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission. | Continue reading
A new version of the Linux kernel has been released — and, as ever, it delivers the goods. Linux kernel 6.6 is a big update that deliver a diverse array of improvements, including a new CPU scheduler that promises to improve performance and reduce latency, a new memory-friendly e … | Continue reading
Discord, the phenomenally popular chat platform, is now verified on Flathub. For years, a Discord Flatpak app has been available on Flathub albeit without any official association, approval, or contribution from Discord itself. However, that’s finally changed. Being verified on F … | Continue reading
Looking for an easy-to-use desktop wallpaper slideshow tool for Ubuntu? The distro doesn’t have a feature to automatically change the desktop background built-in. And while changing your wallpaper manually isn’t difficult I know I often suffer choice paralysis when trying to deci … | Continue reading
If you’re rocking up to the Ubuntu Summit in Riga, Lativa next week you’ll find yourself in the company of Microsoft. Yes, the makers of Windows (and one-time arch enemy of Linux) has announced it’s attending the Ubuntu Summit. Why? These days Microsoft loves Linux and open sourc … | Continue reading
Ubuntu 24.04 development has officially started – and a codename officially confirmed! Last week I invited you you share your Ubuntu 24.04 codename predictions. Several of you suggested the numbat, a small, marsupial anteater native to Australia, as the next release mascot and it … | Continue reading
Linux Mint 21.3, the next major release of the popular Ubuntu-based Linux distro, will include experimental Wayland support in the Cinnamon desktop. Wayland is (as I’m sure you know) a modern display server protocol designed to solve the shortcomings in Xorg, a decades old tech a … | Continue reading
The next long-term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 24.04, is scheduled to be released on April 25, 2024. Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, lists this as the official release date (though it, as always, is subject to change). Another important date in the Ubuntu 2 … | Continue reading
What do trans-dimensional time and space machines, sonic screwdrivers, and the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system have in common? They’re all used in the Doctor Who universe! Ubuntu is no stranger to the worlds of Doctor Who. The lab of enigmatic character Joshua Naismith is ful … | Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox 119 has been released. The latest update to the open-source web browser brings a set of improvements that enhance its usefulness, both for those using it full-time and those looking to make a switch to it. For example, when importing data from Google Chrome Firefo … | Continue reading
KDE Plasma 6.0, the next major release of the phenomenally popular open source desktop environment, is under rapid development But one question has remain: when will it be released? Last month KDE devs shared a tentative target of February 2024, a window within which the first fo … | Continue reading
To get stuff done you need to get organised, and to-do apps can be a useful tool in helping you do that. There are plenty of terrific to-do list apps for Linux, ranging from focused with no-frills to complex with all-the-frills. In this post I spotlight an ace Linux to-do app I’v … | Continue reading
There’s a chill in the air – and not just because I left the kitchen window open. It’s Hallowe’en season! All Hallows’ Eve! Samhain! Commercialized creepiness! Whatever you call it, October is the only month of the year you’re free to revel in the revolting, marvel at the macabre … | Continue reading
If you’ve installed Ubuntu on a laptop, you might want to view battery percentage in the top bar. In this post, I’ll show you how to do this. While the Quick Settings menu shows you the percentage of battery remaining, it’s “out of sight” until you click on it. That’s useful for … | Continue reading
A new Ubuntu release cycle is about to start which means a new Ubuntu codename is needed. So in this post I’m asking you what your choice would be for the Ubuntu 24.04 codename. Per tradition, the new moniker must start with the letter ‘N’ and follow the adjective and animal (rea … | Continue reading
Today is Ubuntu’s 19th birthday! Yes, you read that right: nine-freakin’-teenth. October 20, 2004 was when Ubuntu 4.10 arrived, codenamed ‘Warty Warthog’ as it was rough around the edges. The first version of Ubuntu proved an instant hit with Linux users. It lit the flame of popu … | Continue reading
A new version of the Raspberry Pi Imager app is available to download. This cross-platform tool makes it easy to download OS images designed for the Raspberry Pi and flash them to connected USB drives and SD cards. And in Raspberry Pi Imager 1.8.1 it’s somewhat easier to make sur … | Continue reading
A new version of ONLYOFFICE, an open-source productivity suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is available to download. ONLYOFFICE 7.5 includes the usual grab-bag of improvements across its 4 core components (document editor, spreadsheet app, presentation maker, and form creator) … | Continue reading
KDE Plasma 5.27 is now available for users of Kubuntu 22.04 LTS to upgrade to — if they want to. Kubuntu 22.04 LTS ships with KDE Plasma 5.24. That is a solid release that works well for most folks, but it does lack a few of the fancier flourishes and refinements found in more re … | Continue reading
Linux kernel 6.6 might not be out yet (it’s due in the next few weeks) but that’s not stopped Oracle adding initial support for it in the latest release of VirtualBox. VirtualBox shouldn’t need much of an introduction, of course. It’s one of the best-known pieces of open-source v … | Continue reading
When you double click on a deb package in Ubuntu 23.10 an error appears to tell you “there is no app installed for Debian package files”. Bit weird for a Debian-based distro, so in in this post I show you how to work around it. Most of us are accustomed to double-clicking on loca … | Continue reading
In this post I run through the changes present in the latest version of Ubuntu’s lightest flavour, Xubuntu. Xubuntu 23.10 released on October 12, 2023, with an array of performance buffs, stability boosts, memory management tweaks, and a refreshed pack of preinstalled software. U … | Continue reading
Ubuntu 23.10 is once again available to download — hurrah! If you haven’t kept pace with the drama, the Ubuntu 23.10 download went live on October 12 but was pulled a few hours later. A set of offensive user-contributed translations were included in the main ISO (the one using th … | Continue reading
A new version of VLC, the hugely popular open-source media player, is out. VLC 3.0.19 introduces a number of noteworthy new features and enhancements, plus a bunch of bug fixes to correct errant behaviour, resolve stability issues, and improve overall performance when playing or … | Continue reading
Do you use Ubuntu with an NVIDIA graphics card? If so, you may want to install GreenWithEnvy. And in this post I show you how. GreenWithEnvy is a free, open-source utility for Linux designed exclusively for use with with NVIDIA graphics cards. It displays real-time stats about GP … | Continue reading
The System Monitor app Ubuntu comes with with does an okay job of letting you monitor system resources and oversee running processes — but it does look dated. Now, dated isn’t always a negative – but with System Monitor it is: the app’s graphs and charts are tiny, compact, and la … | Continue reading
Confused why you can’t currently download Ubuntu 23.10, despite the fact it’s been released (and blogs like mine are telling you it’s out)? There is a reason for it — and no, it’s not because we the rest of us got the release date wrong! In a post on X (formerly Twitter) Ubuntu e … | Continue reading
Ubuntu Asahi is a community project that brings a full Ubuntu desktop experience to Apple silicon Macs. If you’re familiar with efforts to get Linux running on Apple silicon you’ll have heard of the Asahi Linux project, which is headed by a phenomenally talented developer and eng … | Continue reading
Get ready to grab the bull by the horns as Ubuntu 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur’ is now available to download. This update is a short-term release supported by 9 months of ongoing support, bug fixes, and critical app updates. While it may not sound long (because it isn’t, all told) reme … | Continue reading
Wondering what’s new in Ubuntu 23.10? Wonder no more my friend, as I showcase the top features and core changes in my latest video. The release Ubuntu’s developers dubbed ‘Mantic Minotaur’ makes its way onto the release scene tomorrow (October 12), having been in development for … | Continue reading
Flatpak fans will want to check out Warehouse. Warehouse is new GTK4/libadwaita tool that makes it easy to manage Flatpak apps and Flatpak remotes (e.g., Flathub, GNOME Nightly, etc) on Linux desktops. It’s particularly notable as it provides a GUI to manage features of this pack … | Continue reading
A new version of Ymuse, a nimble front-end to the Music Player Daemon (MPD) is out. Ymuse 0.22 ‘Xylophone’ intros support for drag-and-drop in the play queue (a real doozy of a feature), adds a single-track repeat option, and debuts an all-new app icon (the martini glass motif gi … | Continue reading
Ding – users of Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 LTS just got new e-mail …client updates to install. Yes, Thunderbird 115 has finally hit the Ubuntu repos, allowing users to upgrade from Thunderbird 102 to 115 without needing PPAs, Flatpaks, or Snaps. And upgrade they’ll want to. The recen … | Continue reading
Here’s a tip for those of you who want to use a custom icon for a specific folder in Ubuntu. — And no, you don’t need to install a new icon set. While there are tons of great icon themes for Ubuntu (and other Linux distros) replacing ALL icons to change the look of a single folde … | Continue reading
PreSonus’ digital audio workstation Studio One is now available on Linux — for the first time, ever! Studio One is a (closed-source) all-in-one DAW toy can use create music from scratch using virtual instruments, loops, and composers; record music, instruments, and other types of … | Continue reading
If you’ve had issues getting Linux Mint 21.2 to run well on your laptop or PC, a new Edge ISO is available to download. The Linux Mint 21.2 Edge ISO differs from the regular ISO is 2 ways: 1) it ships with a newer Linux kernel (Linux kernel 6.2) and 2) it re-enables support for s … | Continue reading
Here’s some awesome news: Ubuntu 23.10 will support the Raspberry Pi 5. So if you’re among the hundreds-of-thousands to pre-order a new model you may be pleased — I only say ‘may’ as chances are someone out there won’t be — to know the latest version of Ubuntu will work on it, on … | Continue reading