News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
For those who have computers or laptops with Synaptics / Validity fingerprint sensors, there’s a new pull request contains the driver for libfprint, the default fingerprint library in most Linux Distributions.
As you might know, libfprint has a list of unsupported devices. It includes many Lenovo Thinkpad and HP laptops with 138a and 06cb sensors.
Firefox 154.0, the August release of this popular open-source web browser, is available to download.
The new version of this browser added new setting option to choose a different Firefox icon. It’s however only available for Windows .exe installation so far, while the support for Linux, macOS, and MSIX installations is coming soon.
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install the GCC 16 compiler in Ubuntu 24.04 / Linux Mint 22.x, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and even the old Ubuntu 18.04.
GCC 16 is so far the latest major version of the GNU Compiler Collection. It’s available in Ubuntu 26.04 repository but non-default.
Linux 7.2, the new major kernel version, was released on Sunday! Linus Torvalds announced this kernel on lkml:
Well, this last week of the release was – once again – bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole “new normal” thing, if I delayed releases for that reason we’d probably never have a release at all.
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GNOME 51, the Linux desktop to be default in next Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, is now available for Beta testing!
The new version of this popular Linux Desktop environment introduced many exciting new features, various fixes, and other improvements.
This tutorial shows how to install the latest .NET 11.0.0 (preview so far) runtime and/or SDK in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04 via DEB package.
Version 11 of Microsoft’s open-source .NET developer platform is currently in preview. The final release is expected in November 2026.
The native Linux app for NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW finally goes stable! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
GeForce Now is NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service that streams high-end PC games to laptops, phones, and TVs, allowing for better gaming experience without requiring high-end hardware.
Faugus, the open-source app launcher for running Windows games and Steam games in Linux, released new 2.1.0 version today.
This simple and lightweight UMU-Launcher based application added GOG games support in the past few weeks. With the new 2.1.0 version, it can now run Amazon games in your Linux Desktop.
The popular FFmpeg media library announced the first maintenance update for the 9.0 “Lei” release on Wednesday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS.
The new FFmpeg 9.0.1 brings a total of 83 fixes and improvements mainly for its libavcodec, libavfilter, and libavformat libraries.
QEMU, the open-source virtualizer and virtual machine monitor, released new 11.1.0 version one day ago.
The new version of this software introduced many new features support for ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V emulation, improved QMP/HMP monitoring support, and fixed various issues.
