NVIDIA announced the first release of its 575 driver series for Linux few days ago.
It’s NVIDIA 575.51.02, a Beta driver, that features NVIDIA Smooth Motion support for GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, which is also coming to RTX 40 series.
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Kdenlive, the popular free open-source KDE video editor, released new 25.04.0 version few days ago.
The new Kdenlive 25.04.0 can now import and export projects using the OpenTimelineIO format. Meaning, it can now import and export projects from/to other video editors that support this format.
Ubuntu 25.04 was released! Here are some top things to do, after installed the new Ubuntu desktop release, to make it ready to use.
1. Enable “New Documents” Context Menu option
It’s been quite a few years, GNOME still does NOT have a graphical option to create new documents in file manager. Though, it’s easy to enable this feature by putting a file into user’s Template folder.
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Ubuntu 25.04, code-name Plucky Puffin, was officially released today!
Ubuntu 25.04 is a short term release with 9-month support until Jan 2026. It features Linux Kernel 6.14, GNOME 48 desktop, updated toolkits and applications.
Ubuntu 25.04 Desktop
Oracle VirtualBox announced new 7.1.8 maintenance release on Tuesday with bug-fixes and support for recent Linux Kernels.
VirtualBox improved the Linux Guest screen flickering issue in the past few releases, the new 7.1.8 continued fixing the screen display issue on certain conditions, and finally marked that the heavy screen flickering on Ubuntu Guest with Wayland as fixed!
screen tearing and flickering issue finally closed
This tutorial shows how to add openSUSE OBS repository and install/update app packages from it in Ubuntu.
Like Ubuntu PPA and Fedora Copr, openSUSE has Open Build Service (OBS) for software developers and community maintainers to build and distribute app packages. Not only for openSUSE itself, it also supports building packages for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and other Linux Distributions.
BleachBit, the popular free open-source system cleaner application, released new 4.9.2 development version few days ago.
After 2 alpha releases, BleachBit 4.9.2 is marked as Beta and final release before the next major 5.0.0.
For Linux, there’s now new “Clipboard Pinner” app called Serigy for GNOME desktop.
It’s NOT a clipboard manager that can save and manage clipboard history. It works by selectively pinning (copy) clipboard content (text, image, URL, etc) into app window, then easily copy back to clipboard when needed with one click.
pinned items in Serigy
Pinta, the popular free open-source drawing and image editing app, released new major 3.0 release yesterday. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users.
Pinta 3.0 features GTK 4.0 and Libadwaita for its modern user interface that’s well integrated in recent GNOME desktop environments. It now automatically switches between light and dark depends on desktop color style, and fits well in different screen sizes with adaptive interface.
Pinta 3.0 light mode
For old Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 with Ubuntu Pro enabled for extended 5 years of Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) updates support, it might sometimes cause 3rd party apps refuse to install and even output unmet dependency issue.
This is because ESM apps have higher package priority 510, while most others are default to 500.
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