News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
This is a step by step guide shows how to enable NVIDIA GPU accelerated video decoding for Google Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Edge, etc web browsers in Ubuntu.
As you may know, Chromium based web browsers do not support NVDEC (NVIDIA Decoder) for video acceleration in Linux by default. The open-source NVIDIA VA-API driver workaround the issue by translating VA-API calls (that most browsers supported) into NVIDIA’s NVDEC video decoding functionality.
NVIDIA driver for Linux released new 615.71.09 version yesterday, as the latest new feature branch driver.
The new driver added some new Vulkan extensions support for better Linux gaming and memory management, and fixed various Wayland and Blackwell GPUs related issues.
Ubuntu developer team announced the default wallpaper for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 yesterday, along with the winning images from the wallpaper competition.
As before, the new default wallpaper is made of a purple background with mascot (stingray) in center. Similar to the one for 26.04, it uses a large, curved origami crease in the background.
Paint.NET image editor added experimental Linux support with version 5.2 Alpha. Here’s step by step guide shows how to try it out in Ubuntu.
There are quite a few Paint.NET alternative apps with native Linux support, but it’s always good to see a Windows app add Linux support.
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GNOME 51, the Linux desktop expected to be default in Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, now is available for RC testing!
The developer team announced this RC release last night. While, the GNOME 51 Final release is scheduled for September 16th in next week.
For those who want to try out the most recent Mesa graphics library 26.2, it’s finally easy to install in Ubuntu through the popular kisak-mesa fresh PPA.
Mesa is the user-space open-source graphics drivers and libraries let apps and games on Linux access to the GPU, especially for Intel/AMD GPUs.
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3, the third monthly development release of the next Ubuntu version, is available to download!
The new snapshot was scheduled for July 30th. It’s finally available a few days ago as the final snapshot, while, the next release will be beta schedule for September 24th according to the announcement.
Audacity released the new 4.0.0 version a few days ago! Here’s the new PPA contains the native .deb for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
The new 4.0.0 version of this audio editor and recording application is a new major release that ported its UI from wxWidgets to Qt6 with native high-DPI rendering support.
Audacity, the popular open-source audio editor and recorder application, released a new stable maintenance update for the 3.7 series yesterday.
It’s Audacity 3.7.9, the 9th maintenance release, that includes two features backported from 4.0 development release and several bug-fixes.
NVIDIA VA-API driver, the free open-source video acceleration API implementation using NVIDIA NVDEC, released new 0.0.18 version yesterday.
The new version finally makes NVIDIA GPU accelerated video decoding usable in Linux with Chrome / Chromium web browser.
