News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
For Ubuntu 24.10 users who are going to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 25.04, the upgrade channel was temporarily suspended due to bugs!
Ubuntu 25.04, code-name Plucky Puffin, is the latest Ubuntu version that was officially released in last week! As Ubuntu 24.10 has only 3 months support, it’s usually recommended to upgrade to the newer Ubuntu 25.04.
This time, however, it’s better to wait for a few days until the developer team fixed the issues!
qBittorrent, the free open-source Qt-based BitTorrent client, announced new major 5.1.0 release on this Sunday.
The new release added a feature that was requested almost 9 years ago. It’s the ability to drag’n’drop items from torrent content widget into another applications, e.g., VLC for video playback.
Mixxx, the free open-source DJ software, released new 2.5.1 version one day ago.
Although this is a first minor update for the 2.5 branch, it includes new features such as mapping support for several new MIDI controllers. They include:
Installing Grub-Customizer in Ubuntu 25.04 from PPA will output “Depends: policykit-1 but it is not installable” issue. Here are quick workarounds until it’s fixed upstream.
As the name says, Grub-Customizer is a graphical application to configure the Grub boot-loader, such as set default boot entry, edit boot menu, and add kernel parameters.
Want to protect from accidentally invoking power-off commands, or prevent multi-user or public use computers from being shutdown or restart by non-admin users? This tutorial may help by either hiding the power-off menu or adding password request.
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Auto-CPUFreq, automatic CPU speed & power optimizer, released version 2.6.0 with some new features and many bug-fixes.
For those who don’t know about auto-cpufreq, it is a free open-source Linux app, which can monitor and automatically manage CPU speed according to battery state, CPU usage, temperature, and system load.
Scribus, the popular free open-source desktop publishing software, released new 1.6.4 version yesterday.
This is a maintenance release for current 1.6 stable release series. It features only some bug-fixes and few minor new features.
NVIDIA announced the first release of its 575 driver series for Linux few days ago.
It’s NVIDIA 575.51.02, a Beta driver, that features NVIDIA Smooth Motion support for GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, which is also coming to RTX 40 series.
Kdenlive, the popular free open-source KDE video editor, released new 25.04.0 version few days ago.
The new Kdenlive 25.04.0 can now import and export projects using the OpenTimelineIO format. Meaning, it can now import and export projects from/to other video editors that support this format.
Ubuntu 25.04 was released! Here are some top things to do, after installed the new Ubuntu desktop release, to make it ready to use.
It’s been quite a few years, GNOME still does NOT have a graphical option to create new documents in file manager. Though, it’s easy to enable this feature by putting a file into user’s Template folder.
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