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End of Support for Ubuntu 23.04 Coming on January 25, 2024
Official support for Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ ends on January 25, 2024 — just under a month away at the time I’m writing this post. As an interim/short-term support release, Ubuntu 23.04 receives 9 months of updates from release. Having been released in April of 2023, January 2024 is when the Lunar Lobster hits end…
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Firefox 122 Launches Public Beta Test: Exploring Its Enhanced Translation Feature
Now that Firefox 121 has made its arrival in the stable software repositories of various GNU/Linux distributions, those curious to try the upcoming major release, Firefox 122, have the ability to download the most recent beta version. At first glance, Firefox 122 appears to be a minor update to the well-known open-source web browser, which…
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HandBrake 1.7.2 Update: Enhanced Automatic Selection of Dolby Vision Level
HandBrake 1.7.2 has been released today for this open-source, free, and cross-platform video transcoder app that you can use to convert and encode between numerous digital video files. HandBrake 1.7.2 is here about five weeks after HandBrake 1.7 as a modest update that improves the automatic selection of Dolby Vision Level and the performance of…
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Announcing the New Stable Release of Enlightenment Desktop
An early Christmas treat has arrived for those seeking Enlightenment — no, not spiritual concept, but the EFL-based desktop shell for Linux and BSD systems. Enlightenment 0.26.0 is a modest improvement to Enlightenment 0.25, which was released in December 2021. For those unfamiliar with it, Enlightenment (sometimes referred to as just ‘E’) is a clever,…
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Improved Display Rendering: An Update on Plymouth Linux Graphical Boot Manager
Plymouth, the open-source graphical boot animation and logger application, has been updated to version 23.51.283, a release that brings various new features and improvements. It’s been more than a year since the last Plymouth release. During this time, the developers worked hard to introduce new features. These include a new plugin named “label-freetype” designed for…
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Unveiling Darktable 4.6: What’s New in the Latest Open-Source RAW Image Editor Release
Today marks the launch of Darktable 4.6, an updated version of the cross-platform, open-source, and cost-free RAW image editor compatible with GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows environments. In Darktable 4.6, there’s a brand-new feature that automatically saves your editing progress every 10 seconds when using the darkroom view. There’s also an additional “rgb primaries” processing module,…
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Easy Steps to Give Your Ubuntu Desktop a Festive Christmas Makeover
It’s time to deck the digital halls: Christmas is just a few days away! By now you’ll have put up your Xmas tree (which the cat’s since stripped), you’ll have wrapped the presents (impeccably well, I’m sure), and said HECK NO to the eggnog (wise, it is gross). But did you leave your trusty Ubuntu…
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Introducing Firefox 121: Now Defaulting to Wayland on Linux
Mozilla Firefox 121 has been released, and it’s a notable one for Linux Wayland users. For the Ubuntu 23.10 release, the Firefox Snap runs in Wayland mode by default (and like many of you I’ve noticed nothing but bountiful benefits resulting from the switch). Mozilla’s workshop elves were clearly happy with the success of that…
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GUADEC 2024: Denver to Host GNOME 46 Desktop Conference
GNOME Foundation announced today the dates and location for their annual GNOME Users and Developers European Conference (GUADEC) conference in 2024. Every year, GUADEC gathers GNOME users and developers from all over the world to share knowledge and discuss the new features and changes of the next major release of the GNOME desktop environment. GUADEC…
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Introducing Armbian Linux: Now Accessible on Raspberry Pi 5 Computers
The Armbian project declared recently that their Debian/Ubuntu-oriented ARM distribution is now compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers and supports Cinnamon, GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, and i3 environments. For followers of Raspberry Pi, this comes as a genuine Christmas present as they now have the chance to install a thoroughly optimized GNU/Linux distribution onto…
