News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Darktable, the popular free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 5.2.0 version few days ago!
The new release introduced side-by-side view (aka split view) to preview the different between snapshot and current images. And, it can be enabled by clicking on the “X|Y” icon next to “take snapshot” button.
This is a step by step guide shows how to mirror your iOS or iPadOS screen onto Ubuntu computer desktop through Apple AirPlay.
AirPlay is a protocol allowing to stream or share content from Apple Devices to Apple TV. Thanks to free open-source software (FOSS), it’s also easy to setup AirPlay server on Windows and Linux PC to receive content from Apple devices.
my iPhone screen on Ubuntu 24.04 desktop
Got ED2K download link, but don’t know how to open it? Try aMule, eMule based app that works in most Linux Distributions.
ED2K (aka eDonkey2000) is a peer to peer file sharing network. The original project has discontinued, but the popular open-source fork eMule is still alive. As eMule is Windows only app, aMule forked it with multi-platform (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, MacOS X and X-Box) support.
OnlyOffice, the popular free open-source office suite, released new 9.0 version for its offline use desktop editors hours ago.
The new release introduced 2 new themes Modern Light and Modern Dark with redesigned UI elements and icons, as well as redesigned start window with focus on simplicity.
Want to play Windows only steam games on your Linux computer? It’s easy to do the job by using Proton.
As you know, there’s a popular free open-source app called Wine, allowing to run Windows apps and games on Linux, macOS, and BSD. And, there are some graphical wine front-ends, such as PlayOnLinux, Bottles, and Lutris, to help installing and managing Wine apps and games.
Play Windows only game SOF in Ubuntu 24.04
Want to try out different wallpapers, icons, and/or app themes in Linux? There’s new app lets you browse tons of wallpapers, icons, GTK and Gnome Shell themes, and install any one with single click.
It’s Linux Theme Store, a free open-source Rust written application that features GTK4 user interface designed for GNOME.
For KDE Plasma users, the new 6.4 release of this Linux desktop environment is out today!
Except the major 6.0, KDE Plasma usually rolls out new feature releases every 4 months. And Plasma 6.4 is the new update since February, which improved color rendering, tablet support, and the built-in screenshot tool.
Packet, free open-source Android Quick Share app for Linux, updated with GNOME Files (aka Nautilus) context menu option support!
For those who don’t know about Packet, it’s new Linux file transferring application written in Rust programming language, and uses GTK4 + LibAwaita for its modern interface designed for GNOME.
Scrcpy, the popular Android screen mirroring and controlling app, release new 3.3 version few days ago.
As you may know, Scrcpy is a free open-source application that can mirror and control your Android screen on Linux, Windows, and MacOS Desktop either wirelessly or using USB cable.
It uses Android Debug Bridge (adb) to communicate with Android device. Nothing needs to be installed on Android, you only need to enable USB debugging mode (no security issue and performance lost).
Visual Studio Code announced new monthly 1.101 (aka May 2025) releases few days ago.
The new release of this free open-source code editor allows you to define tool sets through either the UI or a proposed API. Tool set can group related tools together, making it easier to use them in your chat.
