News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
For those who want to try out the most recent Mesa graphics library 26.2, it’s finally easy to install in Ubuntu through the popular kisak-mesa fresh PPA.
Mesa is the user-space open-source graphics drivers and libraries let apps and games on Linux access to the GPU, especially for Intel/AMD GPUs.
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3, the third monthly development release of the next Ubuntu version, is available to download!
The new snapshot was scheduled for July 30th. It’s finally available a few days ago as the final snapshot, while, the next release will be beta schedule for September 24th according to the announcement.
Audacity released the new 4.0.0 version a few days ago! Here’s the new PPA contains the native .deb for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
The new 4.0.0 version of this audio editor and recording application is a new major release that ported its UI from wxWidgets to Qt6 with native high-DPI rendering support.
Audacity, the popular open-source audio editor and recorder application, released a new stable maintenance update for the 3.7 series yesterday.
It’s Audacity 3.7.9, the 9th maintenance release, that includes two features backported from 4.0 development release and several bug-fixes.
NVIDIA VA-API driver, the free open-source video acceleration API implementation using NVIDIA NVDEC, released new 0.0.18 version yesterday.
The new version finally makes NVIDIA GPU accelerated video decoding usable in Linux with Chrome / Chromium web browser.
OpenShot, the free open-source Qt video editor, released new major 4.0 version on Sunday.
The new version introduced new Color View, Audio and Video recording, new AI based masks, and many other features.
gThumb, the GNOME image viewer and organizer, released the Released Candidate for the next 4.0 major version.
As you might know, gThumb 4.0 is the next major release that features GTK4 plus LibAdwaita port for a modern user interface looks native in recent GNOME desktop.
This tutorial shows how to install the last version of Darktable (5.6.1 so far) via native DEB package in Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and their based distributions such as Linux Mint 22.x.
Darktable is a popular free open-source photography and raw developer application, which is so far at version 5.6.1. It provides official Linux package as non-install AppImage.
Sushi, the file previewer application for GNOME Desktop, released the 51 RC version today.
The last 51 alpha & beta releases of this macOS Finder’s Quick Look style application ported the app to GTK4 plus LibAdwaita, so when you pressing Space on a file, it pops-up a modern native preview window that follows system light and dark style.
DXVK, the open-source translation layer that converts Windows Direct3D calls into Vulkan calls on Linux, released new 3.1 version a day ago.
The new library version introduced some new features and fixes for running Windows apps/games on Linux through Wine, Proton and Steam Play.
