News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
For Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with recent GNOME Desktop, there’s now a new extension to enable the top-bar in multiple monitors.
As you know, GNOME top-bar by default only shows in the primary display for multi-monitors working in the “Join Mode”.
There was a multi-monitors-add-on extension which can add multiple monitors overview and panel. It’s however discontinued and support ends at Gnome 3.38.
JetBrains announced the 2025.3 release of its IntelliJ IDEA JAVA IDE yesterday.
Like PyCharm 2025.3, the new version does no longer provide the Community Edition. Instead, it introduced an unified version that bring the Community and Ultimate editions together in a single product. While, Community users can continue using the IDE for free.
After 4 months of development, JetBrains finally announced the release of PyCharm 2025.3 today.
The new version of this Python IDE does NO longer have Community Edition, but introduced an unified version that brings everything together in a single product. While, Community users can continue using the IDE for free.
After a month of beta development, Firefox 146.0 is available to download for Linux, Windows, and macOS users.
The new release of this web browser finally added native support for fractional scaling on Linux with Wayland session (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04+ and Fedora Workstation).
Flowblade, the free open-source Linux video editing software, released new 2.24 version few days ago.
The new release of this multi-track non-linear video editor focused mostly on UX improvements, bug fixes and GTK 4 port, while there are also some new features.
Audacity, the free open-source audio editor and recording application, released new 3.7.6 version few days ago. PPA updated for all current standard Ubuntu releases.
The new release of this cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) computer software added the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library support.
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Use apt or apt-get to install/upgrade PPA packages but the download speed is slow? Here’s a workaround to speed it up in Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
By choosing a download mirror that nears to me using “Software & Updates” usually can fix slow downloading issue when installing packages from official Ubuntu repositories.
But for app packages from Ubuntu PPAs, in most time it downloads at a speed of few hundreds KB/S.
NVIDIA 590, the next new feature branch driver for Linux, is available for beta testing.
This beta driver is NVIDIA 590.44.01, which however does not introduce any new features, but raised the minimum system library requirements and fixed some bugs.
OnlyOffice desktop editors, the free open-source office suite for Linux, Windows, and macOS, released new 9.2 version yesterday.
The new release added AI agent support, customizable keyboard shortcut, macro recording for repetitive actions, and Windows on ARM support.
TLP, the popular battery power saving tool for Linux laptop, released new 1.9.0 version yesterday!
The new release of this free open-source software introduced its own power profile daemon called tlp-pd, which in certain respects added back the GNOME/KDE/Cinnamon’s built-in power mode settings.
