News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
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.
Liferea, the reliable and lightweight Linux Feed Reader, released new major 2.0 version a day ago.
The new version of this more than 20 years old application is finally ported to GTK4 + LibAdwaita, with a modern user interface that’s well integrated with recent GNOME desktops.
COSMIC Epoch, the Linux desktop environment that’s default in Pop!_OS, released new 1.6.0 version today.
The new version added the wl-dmabuf-v6 Wayland protocol support improving compatibility with the latest Wayland GPU-buffer handling.
Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.16, the eighth maintenance update for the 7.2 series, was released on Tuesday.
The new version of this virtualization software contains only some fixes and performance improvements.
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.
