Ubuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, is now available for Beta testing!
The developer team announced the release last night for Ubuntu Desktop, Server, WSL, Cloud products, and official flavors.
GNOME developer team finally announced the 49 release of this popular Linux Desktop environment!
If everything goes well, GNOME 49 will be the default desktop for Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43, and optional for Arch, Manjaro, etc Linux distributions.
Dolphin, the free open-source GameCube and Wii game emulator, released new 2509 version today after another 3 months of development.
The new release of this game emulator revamped the settings UI, added some new features, and, it can finally emulate Toy Story 3, Cars 2, and Disney Infinity on powerful hardware at full speed.
VLC, the popular free open-source media player, rolled out the new 3.0.22 version few days ago.
This is the twenty-third release of VLC 3.0 branch, code-name “Vetinari”, with the work of more than a year of development.
Firefox 143.0, the new monthly release of the popular free open-source web browser, is available to download.
The new release of Mozilla’s web browser added support installing websites as web apps for Windows user.
For running website, there’s a new “Add tab to taskbar” icon in the right corner of address bar. By clicking on it, will install the website as web app, and pin it into task bar.
Oracle VirtualBox, announced the first maintenance update for the 7.2 release series few days ago.
VirtualBox 7.2.2 fixed various crash issues and regressions in the major 7.2.0, it as well added some minor new features.
Dash to Panel, the popular Gnome Shell extension, updated few days ago with support for GNOME desktop 49.
Meaning you can now install it on Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43, and Arch etc Linux distributions to combine the top-bar and dash into single highly customizable task-bar.
GNOME 49 with Dash to Panel, plus ArcMenu
Visual Studio Code 1.104, the August release of Microsoft’s code editor, was released few days ago.
The new release introduced Auto AI model selection support (Preview feature), allowing to automatically choose between Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-4.1 models, to get the optimal performance and reduce rate limits.
For user with NVIDIA graphics card, Ubuntu finally added official NVIDIA 580 driver packages for all current Ubuntu releases.
As you may know, NVIDIA 580 is so far the latest driver series for Linux, that was initially released one month ago. It’s a production branch driver qualified for enterprise and data center GPU use.
For GNOME users who don’t like the default workspace switch animation, here’s an extension that can help!
When switching workspace (virtual desktop), the transition acts like sliding the desktop wallpaper along with the apps. This is “Sliding Panel” effect that’s also (seems to be) default in Windows and macOS.
If you like, it’s easy to use Android/iOS style swipe left or right switching home screen pages animation. In the case, the wallpaper is static during transitions, it works like only switching the app windows on your desktop.
