News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Looking for an app to watch live TV, movies, or other video contents through IPTV channels? Here I’m going to introduce some for you.
IPTV, Internet Protocol television, is a service to deliver television content over the internet. There are quite a few applications support iptv playback. And, here I’m going to introduce some that I know for you.
Firefox 141.0, a new monthly release of Mozilla’s web browser, is available to download!
The official release note, as usual, is not ready yet. While the official pre-build packages are out along with the source tarball.
Krita, the free open-source KDE graphics editor, release new 5.2.10 few weeks ago, then 5.2.11 with quick fixes few days ago.
Since initial version that was released on 21 June 2005, Krita is now 20 years old. And, the new 5.2.11 release is perhaps the last bug-fixes, as the developer team is now focusing on the next Krita 5.3.0 feature release and Krita 6.0.0 for Qt6 port.
Wallpaper Contest for next Ubuntu 25.10, Questing Quokka, is opened. Submit or vote your favorite images!
Like the last contest, the submissions are separated into 3 categories: Mascot Theme, Digital / Abstract Art, and Photography. And top 2 voted images (6 images in total) in each category will be included in the 25.10 as optional wallpapers.
Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, released new 4.5 version few days ago!
The new Blender 4.5 is a long term support (LTS) release since v4.2 with 2 years of support, which features full Vulkan graphics API support!
Blender 4.5 Splash
Touchpad is too sensitive? Here’s a step by step guide shows how to detect the touchpad pressure values and change the sensitivity accordingly in recent Ubuntu with default libinput driver.
I’ve written about how to adjust touchpad scrolling speed in Ubuntu with Wayland and libinput. And, this one is for the touchpad mouse movement, tap down and up sensitivity.
After more than a month of beta testing, Audacious music player version 4.5 was finally released today!
The new release of this lightweight free open-source player features new plugin, new lyrics provider, and various other improvements. See what’s new & how to install for Ubuntu users.
For beginners who want to install (or already have) Windows apps / games through wine, here’s a new graphical app to make things stupid simple!
It’s WineCharm, a free open-source Python written application that uses GTK4 + LibAwaita for a modern UI well integrated with GNOME Desktop.
VS Code 1.102, the June release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released few days ago on Wednesday.
Since the release, Copilot Chat is finally open-sourced under the MIT license. And, the source code, is available at this github page.
Ubuntu 24.10, codename “Oracular Oriole”, has reached end of its life. Users are recommended to either upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 or install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Ubuntu 24.10 is the last Ubuntu version released in October 2024. It’s a short-term release with 9-month support cycle.
The developer team has announced the 24.10 end of life few weeks ago.
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