News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, is coming soon in next few months. Now, the default wallpapers are out!
As usual, the default wallpaper is made up of the mascot (quokka) in center, a type of wallaby from southwestern Australia, and a gradient background.
As you see via the image below, this time it looks like a quokka that’s hopping and bounding to Ubuntu (the small logo) on the earth.
Ubuntu 25.10 Default Wallpaper (optimized for loading fast)
GNOME 49, the default desktop environment for next Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora Workstation 43, is available for Beta testing.
This Beta is available more than a month after the first Alpha. There will also be a RC release, while, the final of GNOME 49 is planned for September 17.
After 2 Beta and 1 RC testing releases, Oracle VirtualBox finally announced the new major 7.2.0 release.
VirtualBox 7.2.0 redesigned its main UI. Now, it has a left side-bar allowing to navigate between Virtual Machines, Extensions, Media, Network, Cloud, Resources, as well as Home to get started.
VirtualBox 7.2.0
Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu LTS based Linux Distribution, released new 22.2 Beta version on Tuesday.
It’s a new point release for current 22 release series, code-name “Zara”, features Linux Kernel 6.14, Ubuntu 24.04 package base, and 5 years of support until 2029.
Linux Mint with ‘Cinnamon’ desktop theme
Go programming language released new 1.25 version on Tuesday after another 6 months of development.
The new release introduced new Go command options, runtime and compiler changes, some new packages, and platform changes.
Just a week and one day after the Beta release, NVIDIA announced 580.76.05 as the latest production branch driver for Linux.
As a production ready driver series, Ubuntu will likely provide the official packages for all current supported releases, e.g., Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04.
HandBrake, the popular free open-source video transcoder, released version 1.10.0 version few days ago. See what’s new and how to install in Ubuntu.
The new release added “Social 10MB” presets, making easy to convert your media into 720p, 540p, or 360p H.264 video and AAC stereo audio in MP4, with 10MB or less file size, and, up to 30 seconds, 60 seconds, or 120 seconds length.
Debian, the upstream Linux Distribution that Ubuntu is based on, released new stable 13 version!
Debian 13, code-name “trixie”, will be supported for the next 5 years. It features Linux Kernel 6.12, updated desktop environments, toolkits, and new CPU architecture type support.
HPLIP, the HP developer Linux driver for its inkjet and laser based printers, released new 3.25.6 version few days ago.
As the name says, this should be a release for June 2025, though it’s August now!
Visual Studio Code 103, the July release of the Microsoft’s IDE, was released few days ago on Thursday.
The new release made OpenAI GPT-5, the new model released on the same day, to all paid GitHub Copilot plans.
