News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
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.
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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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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Darktable, the popular photography workflow and raw developer software, released new 5.6.2 version today.
The new version is a maintenance release that mainly includes bug fixes covering OpenCL support, crashes, and memory leaks.
Wine, the compatibility layer for running Windows apps / games in Linux, macOS & BSD, released new 11.19 development release today.
The new version of this free open-source software introduced some new features and fixed various bugs for many Windows games and apps.
The Document Foundation announced the first maintenance release for LibreOffice 26.8 yesterday.
The new version of this popular free open-source office suite for Linux, Windows, and macOS introduced a few dozens of bug-fixes, focusing on the compatibility for Microsoft OOXML file format.
Ubuntu 26.10, code-name Stonking Stingray, is now available for beta testing!
The Beta was released last night, one week behind the scheduled date. The Ubuntu Team announced:
The Ubuntu Release team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products.
Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed “Stonking Stingray”, continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
Audacity 4.0.1, the first maintenance update for the new major 4.0 series, was released yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source audio editor brings back some features missing from Audacity 3.x, and fixes various bugs.
For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users, the channel for upgrading to the latest Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now enabled!
The Ubuntu Team announced the upgrade enable-ment yesterday on Sep 29:
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce that upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”, are now enabled.
As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. That work is now complete, and users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS via Update Manager, rolled out progressively over the coming days.
This is a step by step guide shows how to install and try out Myna, Ubuntu’s new offline speech to text feature in Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is developing a voice typing application called Myna. It’s an opt-in feature in Ubuntu 26.10, while the current Ubuntu 26.04 can also try it out.
