Battle for Wesnoth, the free open-source turn-based strategy game, released new version 1.18.4 few days ago.
The new release introduced some changes to the single player campaigns mode, updated the UI, translations, and fixed some bugs.
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GNU Emacs text editor released new 30.1 version on Sunday with many new features.
Emacs is finally ported to Android operating system. Though, it requires to be compiled on another computer with Android NDK, SDK and Java compiler. See the “INSTALL” file under java sub-folder of the source for details.
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install and setup the latest Wireshark network protocol analyzer software (v4.4.7 updated) in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Linux Mint 22/21.
Wireshark is a popular free open-source software to capture and display real-time details of network traffic. It’s available in Ubuntu system repository, but old.
The second point release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released! Ubuntu Team announced it yesterday afternoon:
As usual, this point release includes many updates and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-severity bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Many free open-source apps/projects got updates in past week. They include KDE Plasma 6.3 features panel clone and pixel perfect KWin zoom, GNOME 48 Beta with screen time and HDR settings support.
There are as well GIMP 3.0 RC3 with official AppImage support, Go lang 1.24 features full generic type aliases, and TLP 1.8.0 that supports charging threshold for DELL, Chromebook, and Framework laptops.
Wallpaper competition for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04, Plucky Puffin, is open! Top 6 winner images will be shipped in the official iso image!
This time submissions are separated into 3 categories: Mascot Theme, Digital / Abstract Art, and Photography. Top 2 voted images in each category will appear in the background settings page in Ubuntu 25.04.
image from https://discourse.ubuntu.com/
Looking for a Cheat Engine like application to search and edit memory in Linux Desktop? Here’s a free open-source app work in process!
It’s MemSed (MEMory Search and EDit), an open-source tool written in C programming language. If you have ever used Cheat Engine to scan & edit memory for computer games, you’ll find that MemSed looks familiar, as it’s heavily inspired by the basic Cheat Engine workflow.
KDE announced the first maintenance update for Plasma 6.3 just a week after it was originally released.
As you may know, Plasma 6.3 introduced new feature to resize or move the area of drawing tablet. However, some Linux Distributions are NOT supported due to outdated libinput library. The new release updated the UI to better handle the un-supported cases.
This tutorial shows how to add (or remove) the “proposed” repository to install (or downgrade) the pre-released packages/updates in Ubuntu.
As you may know, Ubuntu has an area called proposed for updates that are being tested before publication. It’s recommended for developers and users who are interested in helping to test updates and provide feedback.
The proposed repository is disabled by default. If you want, here’s how to enable it in all current Ubuntu releases.
HandBrake video transcoder released new 1.9.1 version a few days ago. Here are the changes and native .deb packages for Ubuntu users.
The new HandBrake 1.9.1 contains primarily bug-fixes. It fixed FFV1 pixel format selection when an hardware decoder is used, causing incorrect bit depth output.
