News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Parabolic, the popular application for downloading web video and audio, released new 2026.4.0 version today.
The new version of this free open-source yt-dlp front-end finally added macOS support, by introducing new macOS app built using the GNOME (GTK/libadwaita) version of Parabolic, with yt-dlp, deno, ffmpeg and other Parabolic dependencies in bundle.
GIMP 3.2.4, the second maintenance update of the 3.2 major release series, was released yesterday.
The new version of this popular GTK-3 based image editor continued improving UI/UX experiences, fixed various issues, and added new function for plugin developers.
Pods, the graphical front-end for Podman, released version 3.0.0 in last week.
The new version of this free open-source Gnome application implemented a new backend architecture to support multiple container engines.
KDE announced the release of KDE Gear 26.04 on Thursday, including Kdenlive 26.04 the popular video editor.
The new version of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor introduced many exciting new features.
Zorin OS, the popular Ubuntu LTS based distribution released new 18.1 version yesterday.
The new version of this beginner friendly Linux distribution updated the kernel to Linux 6.17, while, it’s still based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base with support until April 2029.
GNOME 50, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop environment, got the first maintenance updates.
The new 50.1 version introduced numerous bug-fixes and translation updates for its core modules, including the GUI framework, Gnome Control Center, Nautilus fie manager, and more.
Sniffnet, the popular free open-source network traffic monitoring software, released new 1.5.0 version few days ago.
The new version of this lightweight Rust-based packet analyzer introduced per app or program based network traffic monitoring.
Scribus, the free open-source desktop publishing software, released new 1.6.6 version yesterday.
The new stable version introduced two new script functions, fixed various issues, and performed extensive code cleanup with plugin improvements.
Linux Kernel 7.0 was released! Linus Torvalds announced it on Sunday afternoon:
The last week of the release continued the same “lots of small fixes” trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I’ve tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out.
I suspect it’s a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the “new normal” at least for a while. Only time will tell.
Want to configure the login screen in Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with GNOME Desktop? Here’s an extension to do the job for GNOME from version 42 to 50.
As you may know, it’s not easy for beginners to configure the GNOME login screen manually, as it requires GDM user permission. And, the login screen background is even hard-coded in a binary file, that user needs to manually extract, edit, and re-pack it to change the background image. See this wiki for details.
