News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
After more than one and half year of development, the free open-source geany text editor released new major 2.1 version!
The new release of this lightweight IDE is named “Yage”. It added geany-themes, the separated color schemes in built-in.
Meaning users can now easily change the color scheme from “View” menu, without downloading & installing the themes manually.
For NVIDIA users, the latest 575 series driver will be available soon in Ubuntu repository. Though, it’s already made into PPA few days ago.
NVIDIA 575 so far is the latest feature branch Linux driver that improved performance for gaming and power management.
This tutorial shows how to remap touchpad tapping, so you Ubuntu will use 2-finger tap on touchpad as middle click (or paste), and 3-finger tap as right-click action.
GNOME, the default desktop in Ubuntu, has switched to Wayland and is going to drop classic Xorg session, the old method to remap touchpad tap buttons does not work anymore. Here’s the new method to do the job in recent Ubuntu releases e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04.
Converseen, the popular batch image converting / resizing application, released new 0.15.0.0 version yesterday.
The new release of this popular free open-source app finally added options to choose a different theme, though only few choices are available so far.
GnuCash, the popular free open-source accounting software, released new 5.12 version yesterday.
This is the twelfth point release for 5.x release series that introduced various bug-fixes, improvements, and translation updates. And, for Ubuntu users, the “Gnucash packaging team” PPA revived.
App Center disappeared, instead it shows you the old Ubuntu Software in your Ubuntu 24.04? Here’s how to fix the issue.
As you know, Ubuntu switched to App Center since 23.10. While, the old Ubuntu Software is still in use for Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04. And, both are Snap Store.
VirtualBox 7.2.0, the next major release of Oracle’s virtualization software, is now in second beta testing stage.
VBox 7.2.0 Beta 1 redesigned its UI with vertical menu options in left, allowing to navigate between Machines, Extensions, Media, Network, Cloud, Resources, as well as Home to get started.
It also added support running Windows 11 ARM as guest, and updated Windows installer with Arm virtualization support built-in.
VirtualBox 7.2.0 Beta
The second development release, Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2, is available to download now!
The developer team announced the new release at list.ubuntu.com:
By now, hopefully you’re already familiar with what monthly snapshots are. For those who are not, have a look at Jon’s blog post about it.
Now that you’ve got some context, I’d like to announce its second successful publication – Questing Snapshot 2. You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com.
Image by PixelPond from Pixabay
GIMP 3.1.2, the first development release for the next major GIMP 3.2, was released!
The new release of this popular image editor improved the built-in system theme, added many new file formats support, and introduced new painting mode.
The 140.0 release of Firefox web browser is available to download after 4 weeks of development and beta testing.
In addition to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Wikipedia, the new release introduced custom search engine support. User now can either right-click search field of a supported website and select Add Search Engine, or go to “Settings -> Search” to add search engine with custom name, URL, and optional keyword.
