News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
LibreOffice, the popular office suite that’s default in many Linux Distributions, released new major 26.8 version on Wednesday.
The new version of this free open-source software features RTL (right-to-left) and bidirectional text support, improved Microsoft Office compatibility, stronger scripting, and various improvements.
GNU Emacs, the powerful text editor, released new 31.1 version a few days ago.
The new version was launched nearly a year after the previous release. It features much better completion, more powerful window/frame management, unicode 17, and many other changes.
Darktable, the open-source photography and raw developer application, tagged 5.6.1 version today.
The new version is a maintenance release that improved the AI support, fixed numerous issues, and updated translations.
Go language (aka Golang) released new major 1.27 version in last week, six months after the last 1.26.
The new version of this popular programming language added support generic methods, which can now declare their own type parameters, making generics more flexible.
Looking a tool to manage your iPhone or iPad in PC or laptop? Try the free open-source iDescriptor app that works in Linux, Windows, and macOS.
It’s a Rust written and Qt-based application that allows to manage and interact with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod through either USB or Wi-Fi.
KDE Rounded Colors, the kwin effect for KDE Plasma Desktop 5 and 6, released new 0.10.0 version today!
The new version of this open-source project introduced gradient outlines support, which draws window borders with color gradually changes from one color to another, rather than having a single solid color.
Mesa 3D graphics library released 26.2.1 version a few days ago, making the new 26.2 release series stable enough for production use.
Mesa announced 26.2.0 a few weeks ago with many exciting new features. Now, it’s ready for use by the first 26.2.1 bug fix update.
Mesa 26.2.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 26.2.1.
Proton, Valve Software’s tool for running Windows games in Linux through Steam, released new 11.0-2 version a few days ago.
The new version of this popular Wine based software makes 9 more games playable in Linux!
KDE Gear 26.08, the new release of KDE’s official collection of applications, is available after four months of development.
The new version of this KDE app collections includes many new features and improvements to the Dolphin file explorer, KDE connect, Kdenlive video editor, Konsole terminal emulator, and others.
Want to display your lovely photo images as desktop widget, here’s an extension that can do the job for Ubuntu and other Linux with recent GNOME Desktop.
It’s Desktop Frames, a GNOME Shell extension that can create multiple desktop widgets that display random images from user selected folders.
