News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Found the image viewers and editors, such as Loupe and GIMP, cannot load HEIF/HEIC images by default in Ubuntu 26.04? Here’s a quick guide show you why and how to fix.
Today I found that the default Loupe image viewer in Ubuntu 26.04 could not load my photo images imported from iPhone.
It said “Either the image file is corrupted or it contains unsupported elements“, and the more information page showed the error below:
GDM Settings, the settings app for GNOME’s login screen (aka GDM Display Manager), is officially paused!
The main developer and maintainer of the project, Mazhar Hussain, announced the project is on old in last week via this issue:
Darktable, the popular free open-source photography and raw developer application, released new major 5.6.0 version today!
The new version introduced optional AI sub-system, UI/UX and performance improvements, as well as many fixes and other changes.
FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multi-media library, released the second maintenance update for its 8.1 release series a few days ago.
The new version of this media library comes with more than a hundred of changes, mainly include bug-fixes, stability improvements, as well as some minor new features.
This tutorial shows how to install the latest version of fish shell, and set it as default in Ubuntu. Though the title says for Ubuntu 26.04, it also works on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04.
Fish, stands for Friendly Interactive SHell, is an extremely popular command line interpreter that reads your text input, interprets and tells OS what to run, and returns the output.
NVIDIA 595, the latest production branch driver, received a new update yesterday for Linux users.
The new NVIDIA 595.84 release includes fixes for many games, sleep and wake up issue, and a few regressions introduced in the 580 driver series.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is making a new speech to text application. Ubuntu 26.10 is expected as the first release to include it.
The new app is named myna, a bird that’s known for its ability to mimic human speech.
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VirtualBox, the popular virtualization software made and maintained by Oracle, released new 7.2.10 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source software added initial support for the most recent Linux Kernel 7.1 and fixed various issues.
KDE Plasma 6.7, the new major release of this popular Linux desktop environment, was released today!
The new version introduced many exciting new features, theme improvements, and better AMD/Intel platforms support.
Firefox 152.0, the new monthly release of the popular free open-source web browser, is available to download.
The new version features a redesigned settings page. It now separates settings in more groups in left, such as Account and sync, Password and autofill, Appearance, Accessibility, Permission and data, and more, providing a clearer interface to customize the web browser.
