UbuntuHandbook | News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux

Install & Setup QEMU/KVM to Run Virtual Machines in Ubuntu 24.04

Last updated: December 5, 2024 — Leave a comment

This is a step by step guide shows how to install and manage virtual machines using qemu/kvm solution in Ubuntu 24.04.

KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine, is a module in Linux Kernel that can function as a hypervisor. It offers a high performance virtualization environment with hardware virtualization extensions, such as Intel VT or AMD-V that’s built in CPU.

KVM does not directly function in user-space. It requires a user-space application, such as QEMU, to interact with it and manage virtual machines.

As QEMU is a command line tool, there’s also graphical tool, such as Virtual Machine Manager, to make it easy to use.

In Howtos kvm, qemu, virtual machine manager

HandBrake 1.9.0 Released with Intel QSV VVC Decoder [Ubuntu PPA]

Last updated: December 4, 2024 — 1 Comment

HandBrake video transcoder announced new 1.9.0 release few days ago. Here’s new features and native .deb package for Ubuntu users.

The new HandBrake 1.9.0 added Intel QSV VVC hardware video decoding support, and an option to enable AV1 screen content coding(SCC) on Intel Lunar Lake QSV AV1 encoder.

It also added support for lossless VP9 encoding, meaning it can convert videos to VP9 codec while keeping 100% original quality.
Continue Reading…

In News handbrake, media converter

Dolphin Emulator 2412 Added Official Linux Flatpak Support

Last updated: December 2, 2024 — Leave a comment

Dolphin, the popular free open-source GameCube and Wii emulator, released new 2412 version today!

The game emulator supported Linux previously through an official Ubuntu PPA, however discontinued! In the new release, it added back official Linux support through Flatpak package, which works in most Linux distributions, through runs in sandbox.

In News Dolphin Emulator, game

Install or Upgrade to PHP 8.4 in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04

Last updated: November 28, 2024 — Leave a comment

PHP, the popular scripting language for web development, announced new 8.4 release last week. Here’s how to install or upgrade to Php 8.4 in Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 to work with Apache2 or Nginx web server.

PHP 8.4 introduced a number of new features such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, lazy objects, an object API for BCMath, new array functions, and new JIT implementation based on IR Framework. See the release page for more.

In Howtos Apache, Nginx, PHP, web

GDM Settings 5.0 Adds more options to Configure GNOME Login Screen

Last updated: November 28, 2024 — Leave a comment

GDM Settings, the graphical configuration tool for GNOME Login Screen, released version 5.0 hours ago with new features!

GDM Settings (Gnome Display Manager Settings) is a free open-source tool that provides graphical options to configure background, themes, fonts, etc for login screen in Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation and other Linux with GNOME Desktop.

The application just released 5.0 version today. Here are the new features and how to install guide in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 24.10!

In News GDM, Gnome

Elementary OS 8.0 Released! Wayland and Ubuntu 24.04 Base

Last updated: November 27, 2024 — Leave a comment

Elementary OS announced new 8.0 release this Tuesday! The code-name is Circe, and it’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Elementary OS is a desktop Linux distribution that features Pantheon desktop environment along with its own core apps. It used to be attractive, due to its desktop appearance, though now the UI is a bit lagging behind in my opinion.

In News Elementary OS

Install Minecraft Java, Bedrock, or Pi Edition in Ubuntu, Linux Mint

Last updated: November 26, 2024 — Leave a comment

This tutorial shows how to install and play the popular Minecraft sandbox game in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 21/22, and their based systems.

Minecraft has different editions, including Java, Bedrock, Legends, and Dungeons, as well as the discontinued Pi edition.

So far, only Minecraft Java edition runs natively in Linux. User can however install and play the Bedrock and Pi editions through sandbox environments, though they are unofficial and have limitations.

In Howtos, News game, Minecraft

Hugin 2024.0.1 Released! PPA Updated for Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04, & Earlier

Last updated: November 24, 2024 — Leave a comment

Hugin, the popular free open-source panoramic photo stitcher, released version 2024.0.0 last week and 2024.0.1 with quick fix few days ago.

One release per year! The new Hugin 2024.0.0 release features:

Added browser for project files to Hugin. It can show thumbnails or project details of all project files in a directory.
Create GPano tags also for cylindrical output projection.
Several bug fixes for verdandi/internal blender.
Fixes reading of metadata from cr3 raw files.
cpfind is now using multirow strategy as default. If you want the old behaviour instead add the (new) switch --allpairs to command line.

In Howtos, News panorama stitcher

Blender 4.3 released with Experimental Vulkan UI, Hardware Ray-tracing on Linux

Last updated: November 22, 2024 — Leave a comment

Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, announced new major 4.3 release this Tuesday with many exciting new features and performance improvements.

In the new release, the real-time renderer EEVEE now supports Light Linking and Shadow Linking, which was previously available only in Cycles. It now has a new Metallic BSDF node in shader editor, and, new texture node that can create procedural Gabor noise for random interleaved bands with controllable direction and width.

In News blender

How to Install Latest Shotwell 0.32.10 in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04

Last updated: November 21, 2024 — 1 Comment

This tutorial shows how to install the most recent Shotwell photo manager and viewer, so far version 0.32.10, in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.

Shotwell is a free open-source photo manager designed for the GNOME Desktop. It’s pre-installed and default in Ubuntu Desktop, when you installed the system with default or full installation mode.

The photo manager features import photos from disk or camera, organize by time-based events, tags (keywords), folders, and more. It supports basic image editing, such as crop, rotate, color adjust, straighten, and enhance photos.

As well, it supports video and RAW photos, create wallpaper slideshow, and share your photos to major web services, including Flickr, Tumblr and YouTube.

In Howtos shotwell

Newsletter