News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
KDE Plasma, the popular Linux desktop environment, released new 6.7.4 bug-fix and stability release yesterday.
The new desktop version introduced multi-GPU and display handling improvements, better input, accessibility, and UI consistency, and various fixes across the desktop, KWin, and other components.
FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 9.0 version today.
The new version of this library introduced some new decoders and encoders, hardware accelerated encoders and filters for better performance, as well as many other new features.
NVIDIA announced the 610.57.04 driver along with 595.91.07 for Linux this monday!
The production branch driver 595.91.07 includes only many bug fixes and improvements, while the 610.57.04 feature branch driver fixed crashes in many games.
Mutter, the window manager and Wayland compositor used by GNOME, released new 51 Beta version today.
The new version of this GNOME component that manages windows, handles input devices, and draws the desktop, added support for Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 protocol.
GNOME Document Viewer, aka Papers, released new 51 Beta version one day ago.
The new version of this GNOME core application for reading PDF / DejaVu documents as well as Comic Books archives introduced visual signature support.
Rhythmbox, the default music player in Ubuntu (Extended selection), released new 3.5.0 version today.
The new version of this free open-source GTK3 music player finally switched the audio playback backend from xfade to multistream.
GNOME is going to support uninstalling applications directly from the App Grid, by adding “Uninstall” option to app icons’ right-click menu.
The feature is to be implemented by a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 project via a contributor from India.
Faugus, the free open-source application for running Windows games and Steam games in Linux, released new 2.0.4 (and 2.0.5) a few days ago.
This simple and lightweight community-patched Proton based application added many new features, minor improvements, and bug-fixes in the past week.
After a few week of 26.7.16 pre-release testing, Shotcut 26.7.30 was finally released for Windows, Mac and Linux users.
The new version of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor is the latest stable release that features built-in emojis, new video filter, and various fixes.
Missing Wi-Fi drivers in your Ubuntu PC or laptop? If you happen to have Realtek Wi-Fi adapter, this tutorial may help!
Linux has out-of-the-box driver support for the most modern network adapters. But, there are always some devices lack of properly support due to various reasons. Thanks to the open-source community, there are always a group of people maintaining missing drivers.
