News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Want to do some actions automatically when you switch desktop theme to light or dark style? Here’s a new application can do the job for GNOME Desktop.
It’s switchcraft, a free open-source Vala written application that provides a modern simple interface, allowing to add custom commands to run automatically when the theme changes.
LXQt, the lightweight Qt based desktop environment, released new version 2.3.0 few days ago.
The new release of this free open-source Linux desktop continued improving Wayland support. The Desktop Switcher panel applet now works on Labwc, niri, and Wayfire Wayland compositors that support ext-workspaces-v1 protocol.
NVIDIA 580.105.08, a new point release for the latest production branch driver for Linux, was released yesterday.
This is the 5th release in the NVIDIA 580 series. It introduced a new environment variable and fixed various bugs.
KeePass Password Safe released new 2.60 version few days ago. Here are the new features and PPA update for Ubuntu users.
The new release of this free open-source password manager application added support importing .csv passwords exported from Mozilla Firefox web browser.
Ubuntu team announced the release schedule for next Ubuntu 26.04 LTS few days ago!
Ubuntu 26.04, code-name Resolute Raccoon, is the next Long Term Support (LTS) release that will have 5-year standard support until 2031 and another 5 year Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) support via Ubuntu Pro.
After 2 months of development, the Shotcut video editor released new 25.10 version yesterday.
The new release of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor introduced new option to generate image or video from HTML, Text to Speech, and some other exciting new features.
After 3 weeks of the release date, Ubuntu finally opened the channel for upgrading from Ubuntu 25.04 to Ubuntu 25.10.
Ubuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, is the latest version that was released on October 9th. It features 9 month support until July 2026, Linux Kernel 6.17, GNOME Desktop 49, new Rust-based core utilities, new Ptyxis terminal emulator, and Loupe image viewer.
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For MATE users, Debian and Ubuntu are finally migrating this desktop environment to version 1.28 for Debian Testing (Forky) and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
MATE, the continuation of GNOME 2, is a popular lightweight desktop environment for Linux. The latest version is MATE 1.28 which was released more than a year and a half ago in February 2024.
Resources, the modern task manager and system monitor app for Linux desktop, released new 1.9.0 version few days ago.
The new release of this free open-source application added more languages support, more display options, bug-fixes and improvements.
For users of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, Ubuntu team announced how to fix the issue that automatically check of updates not working in desktop, server, cloud, and container.
As you may know, Ubuntu replaced GNU Core Utilities with Rust in 25.10. Most core command line tools, such as chroot, dd, du, echo, ls, mkdir, pwd, sudo, who, and more, are now the “memory safe” Rust-based utilities, though for end users, they can be used just like before.
