News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, the open-source office suite for Linux, Windows, and macOS, released new 10.0.0 version last night.
The new major release is a fully rebuilt application. It redesigned the home page with a compact style narrow vertical icon bar instead of the full-width left side-bar.
Ubuntu introduced Myna Speech to Text project a few months ago. Now, it’s officially available for testing in Ubuntu 26.04 | 24.04 through an official PPA.
The Ubuntu team announced the technology preview for Myna project yesterday in Ubuntu blog:
Today, we’re making it available as a technology preview to the wider Ubuntu community. Whether you regularly rely upon speech-to-text dictation, or only use it for certain use cases, we want to hear your feedback.
Firefox 158.0, the new biweekly release of Mozilla’s web browser, is available to download.
The new version of this popular web browser finally added out-of-the-box support for JPEG-XL image format, which has been available for testing in Firefox Labs since v152.0.
BleachBit, the free open-source system cleaner app for Linux, Windows, and macOS, released new 6.0.5 Beta version a few days ago.
The new version of this popular CCleaner alternative application introduced significant performance improvements, new cleaning support, and various bug-fixes.
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Python, the popular general purpose programming language, released new major 3.15 version yesterday.
The new version is the result of 17 months of development, that features many new typing features, interpreter, standard, and C API library improvements.
NVIDIA 615, the latest feature branch driver for Linux, is finally made into official Ubuntu repository for Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 22.04.
The NVIDIA 615 driver (615.71.09) was released almost a month ago with better Linux gaming and memory management and various Wayland and Blackwell GPUs related bug-fixes.
Opera, the popular Chromium based web browser, released new stable 137 version last night.
The new version of this multi-platform browser introduced some new features, including the long-requested per-window vertical tab state, and various bug-fixes.
Auto-cpufreq, the automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux, released new 3.2.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source software added configure option to enable/disable Intel HWP dynamic boost, improved monitoring support, and fixed various bugs.
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Scrcpy, the popular application for mirroring / controlling Android screen on your computer, released new 5.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source application finally added hardware decoding support, which uses your computer’s GPU to accelerate the video playback.
Missing the global menu that adds focused application’s menus to the top panel? Here’s an extension that brings it back in recent GNOME Desktops.
Ubuntu previously supported global menus when GNOME 2 and Unity were its default desktop environments. Since GNOME 3, there have been some extensions that implement this feature, but most of them discontinued.
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