News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
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.
Linux Kernel 6.18 was released yesterday! According to the version history, it will be probably the next Long Term Support (LTS) kernel release.
Linus Torvalds announced this kernel release on this lkml.org page:
So I’ll have to admit that I’d have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there’s a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this needs more time to cook. So 6.18 is tagged and pushed out.
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After almost a year and a half of development, VLC 3.0.22 is finally available to download! PPA updated for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10.
After two RC releases, VLC 3.0.22 is finally made available with some new features, UI changes, bug-fixes, and many security fixes.
The first monthly snapshot release for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was released yesterday morning (UTC time).
Ubuntu development team announced this development snapshot:
Hello everyone, I’d like to announce the first successful publication of the monthly snapshot – Resolute Snapshot 1. You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com …
The Ubuntu Desktop team announced the road-map for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS today, introducing two new default applications!
As you may know, Ubuntu introduced some new default apps in recent releases, e.g., Security Center to manage snap app permissions, the container-focused Ptyxis terminal emulator, Papers document viewer, and Loupe image viewer.
FFmpeg, the popular multimedia library released new version 8.0.1 in last week. Here’s the PPA contains the .deb packages for all current Ubuntu users.
As a maintenance update, the release includes only minor new features, some improvements, and bug-fixes. And, the FFmpeg website does not even provide an official release note for it.
