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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…
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Advancements in KDE Plasma 6 for Mobile: Strong Applet Support in the Works
KDE Plasma 6 for the Linux desktop is on the horizon, with Plasma Mobile developers diligently updating the mobile version of Plasma to align with the latest KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6 frameworks, ensuring parity with the Plasma 6 desktop environment. In a detailed blog post, Plasma Mobile developer Devin Lin shared insights into…
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Download Now: Manjaro 23.1 ‘Vulcan’ Comes Packed with GNOME 45 and Linux 6.6 LTS
Manjaro Linux 23.1 can now be downloaded as the inaugural major update in the Manjaro Linux 23 series, which introduces an updated kernel, refreshed desktop environments, and enhanced components to this distro based on Arch Linux. You can check it out here. The release comes slightly more than three months following Manjaro 23.0, and it’s…
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Ubuntu Developing Snaps for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
Productivity is on the minds of the Ubuntu’s desktop developers as they plan what features to ship in the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release. Given that many folks now use of web-based office tools like Microsoft 365 Online and Google Workspace (which is sometimes referred to as ‘gsuite’ by its fans), some time-saving convenience is…
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Exploring the New Additions in Vivaldi 6.5: Sessions Panel, Workspace Rules and More
Hot on the heels of its quasi-official arrival on Flathub, a new version of the Vivaldi web browser has been released. Vivaldi 6.5 includes some nice new features, a few of which enhance and build on existing ones introduced in earlier releases: New ‘Sessions Panel’ Workspaces rules Notes improvements Now syncs entire browser history Of…
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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…
