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Unveiling Ubuntu’s Latest Update: Support for 118 New Emoji Added
A brown mushroom, a slice of lime, and a fiery phoenix — no, that’s not the start of a rubbish joke but a selection of the 118 new emoji added to the Unicode standard. And Ubuntu users can see and use these new emoji well before Apple users, as well! Rolling out to Ubuntu 22.04…
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The New Ardour 8.2 Open-Source DAW: Featuring Note Tupling and Support for Solid State Logic UF8
Ardour 8.2 open-source, free, and cross-platform DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software is now available for download as a feature and bugfix release introducing support for new devices and other improvements. Ardour 8.2 is here two months after Ardour 8.1 to add support for new devices, including the Novation LaunchPad X and LaunchPad Mini controllers, as…
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Linux Now Supported by the Latest Geekbench ML Benchmark App
Curious about how your current Linux system can manage AI and ML-related tasks? Nowadays, you can easily determine this. The company Primate Labs, known for its widely-favored Geekbench software, has unveiled a new pre-release version of their machine-learning performance testing tool, known as Geekbench ML. This tool is now capable of supporting Linux. Geekbench ML…
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Introducing Calamares 3.3: The Next Generation Graphical Installer for Linux
Available for all GNU/Linux distributions desiring a universal, independent, and fully customizable graphical installer, the Calamares 3.3 installer is finally here. With over a year and a half in development and launching over five years after version 3.2, this installment boasts of countless changes. The changes brought about by Calamares 3.3 include additional support for…
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Introducing Mission Center: New Features Include Intel GPU Usage Display and AppImage Availability
Intel GPU support has been added to the Linux system monitor app Mission Center. I’ve written about this GTK4/libadwaita app a few times in the past and, to plagiarize myself, the reaction to it has been off the charts (in a good way). The app is written in Rust and uses OpenGL to render the…
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KDE Gear 23.08.4: The Final Update of the Series Unveiled
KDE Gear, previously recognized as KDE Applications, is a full suite of over 120 applications, libraries, and features. The team from KDE Project launched an updated version 23.08.4, which is the final update to the KDE Gear 23.08 series. The new iteration, KDE Gear 23.08.4, arrived around a month following the release of KDE Gear…
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Intel GPU Usage Now Displayed on Mission Center, Available as AppImage: A Closer Look
Intel GPU support has been added to the Linux system monitor app Mission Center. I’ve written about this GTK4/libadwaita app a few times in the past and, to paraphrase myself, the response to it has been overwhelmingly positive. The app is written in Rust and uses OpenGL to render the animation graphs, ensuring that it…
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New Update: GNOME Shell 45.2 Rolls Out to Ubuntu 23.10
The first point release to GNOME Shell 45 only hit Ubuntu 23.10 at the end of last month, and now a second one is already on its way! GNOME Shell 45.2 was released upstream at the start of December, now Ubuntu’s developers have packaged it up and pushed it out to users of Ubuntu 23.10.…
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Now Available: Download the Latest Linux Mint 21.3 Beta with Cinnamon 6.0
After confirming that the beta version of Linux Mint 21.3 will be coming this week, the Linux Mint team has now published the ISO images of all three Linux Mint editions, which can be downloaded right now. Linux Mint 21.3 is codenamed “Virginia” and it’s planned for release on Christmas 2023. The beta version is…
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Exciting Update: Calibre eBook App Now Features Audio ePubs and Custom Notes Support
If Calibre, the well-known open-source ebook manager, could be thought of as a book, it would undoubtedly continually top the bestseller lists due to its comprehensive array of features. The most recent release, Calibre 7, expands this array of features even further. This new update introduces a variety of novel functionalities to the pre-existing features…
