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Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04.1 Upgrade Channel Is Finally Open

Published: September 30, 2026 — Leave a comment

For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users, the channel for upgrading to the latest Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now enabled!

The Ubuntu Team announced the upgrade enable-ment yesterday on Sep 29:

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce that upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”, are now enabled.

As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. That work is now complete, and users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS via Update Manager, rolled out progressively over the coming days.

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How to Try Out 26.10’s Speech-to-Text App in Ubuntu 26.04 | 24.04

Published: September 29, 2026 — 1 Comment

This is a step by step guide shows how to install and try out Myna, Ubuntu’s new offline speech to text feature in Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is developing a voice typing application called Myna. It’s an opt-in feature in Ubuntu 26.10, while the current Ubuntu 26.04 can also try it out.

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VLC 3.0.24 Released! PPA Updated for Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 & 22.04

Published: September 28, 2026 — Leave a comment

VLC, the free open-source and cross-platform media player, released new 3.0.24 version in last week.

The new version of this popular media player comes with more than 130 security fixes, some new audio/video codecs support, and various other fixes and improvements.

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PPA Updated with Krita 6.0.4 / Krita 5.3.4 for Ubuntu 26.04 | 24.04

Published: September 24, 2026 — Last updated: September 30, 2026 — 2 Comments

For those who want to install the most recent Krita 6.0.4 (or Krita 5.3.4) in native .deb package, I’ve updated the PPA for Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Krita, KDE’s digital painting software, is now at version 5.3.x and 6.0.x release series. They are almost functionally identical; one is built with Qt 5, while the other is built with Qt 6.

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Shotwell 33.0 Released with GTK4 Port, How to Install in Ubuntu

Published: September 14, 2026 — Leave a comment

Shotwell, the digital photo organizer for GNOME, released new major 33.0 version a day ago.

The new version of this Ubuntu default/pre-installed app (when Ubuntu installed in Extended selection mode) is finally ported to GTK4.

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PPA Updated with GIMP 3.2.6 for Ubuntu 26.04 | 24.04

Published: September 14, 2026 — Last updated: September 18, 2026 — 9 Comments

GIMP image editor released new 3.2.6 version a few days ago. Here’s the PPA update for Ubuntu users who prefer the native .deb package.

GIMP 3.2.6 is a stable maintenance release that features various bug fixes, security updates, performance improvements.

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Enable Video Acceleration for Chrome / Chromium in Ubuntu with NVIDIA

Published: September 11, 2026 — Leave a comment

This is a step by step guide shows how to enable NVIDIA GPU accelerated video decoding for Google Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Edge, etc web browsers in Ubuntu.

As you may know, Chromium based web browsers do not support NVDEC (NVIDIA Decoder) for video acceleration in Linux by default. The open-source NVIDIA VA-API driver workaround the issue by translating VA-API calls (that most browsers supported) into NVIDIA’s NVDEC video decoding functionality.

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Paint.NET Adds Initial Linux Support, How to Try Out in Ubuntu

Published: September 8, 2026 — Last updated: September 9, 2026 — 2 Comments

Paint.NET image editor added experimental Linux support with version 5.2 Alpha. Here’s step by step guide shows how to try it out in Ubuntu.

There are quite a few Paint.NET alternative apps with native Linux support, but it’s always good to see a Windows app add Linux support.
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Mesa 26.2 Finally Available to Install via PPA in Ubuntu 26.04/24.04

Published: September 7, 2026 — 6 Comments

For those who want to try out the most recent Mesa graphics library 26.2, it’s finally easy to install in Ubuntu through the popular kisak-mesa fresh PPA.

Mesa is the user-space open-source graphics drivers and libraries let apps and games on Linux access to the GPU, especially for Intel/AMD GPUs.

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New PPA Provides Audacity 4.0.0 Deb Package for Ubuntu 26.04

Published: September 5, 2026 — 2 Comments

Audacity released the new 4.0.0 version a few days ago! Here’s the new PPA contains the native .deb for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

The new 4.0.0 version of this audio editor and recording application is a new major release that ported its UI from wxWidgets to Qt6 with native high-DPI rendering support.

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