News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Rufus, the popular free open-source app to create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs, released new 4.7 version last night with new features.
Rufus, stands for The Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Source, is a Windows only app originally designed to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. But, it now supports a variety of bootable .iso files, including various Linux Distributions, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and more.
This is step by step guide shows how to install the G’MIC plugin for GIMP 3.0 series in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 24.10, and higher.
GREYC’s Magic for Image Computing, G’MIC short, is a popular free open-source image processing software. It can work as plugin for GIMP, Krita, Photoshop, etc. with more than 600 filters to alter the appearance of an image.
G’MIC for GIMP 3.0
Resources, the free open-source system monitor and task manager app for Linux desktop, released new 1.8.0 version recently with new features.
Resources is a simple yet powerful monitor app written in Rust. It uses GTK 4 for its modern user interface that’s well integrated with GNOME Desktop, and Libadwaita for an adaptive interface that works great in different screen sizes.
Celluloid, the GTK4 front-end of MPV media player, released new 0.28 version few days ago.
Celluloid is a free open-source media player uses MPV as backend. It features GTK4 and Libadwaita for its modern and adaptive GUI that’s well integrated in GNOME desktop.
The March 2025 release of Visual Studio Code, aka 1.99, was released few days ago.
The new release introduced chat agent mode for VS Code Stable, which can be enabled by setting chat.agent.enabled.
With chat agent mode in Visual Studio Code, you can use natural language define a high-level task and to start an agentic code editing session to accomplish that task.
image from visualstudio.com
For LibreOffice users who are sticking to the native .deb packages, the Ubuntu packaging team finally made the packages through PPA.
LibreOffice 25.2 was released 2 months ago with custom theme support, automatic sign document in “Save as” dialog, import/export connections.xml in OOXML, read and write support for ODF 1.4, and many other new features. See HERE for more.
GNU Octave, the free open-source programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation, rolled out the new 10.1.0 release.
The official announcement is not ready at the moment of writing. Though, the source tarball was made available to download since last week. And, I’ve made the package into PPA for all current Ubuntu releases.
After 5 years since the last 20.03, the Code::Blocks IDE finally announced new 25.03 stable release few days ago.
The new Code::Blocks 25.03 added support for MinGW64, MSYS2, MSVC17 and TDM compilers, C++ standards 23 and 26 (and their gnu extensions), as well as new -std=c23 and -std=gnu23 options on GCC13 and newer.
Want to get refresh of your desktop background with new wallpapers every day? Here’s a new app to do the job for Linux with GNOME Desktop!
It’s Picture of The Day, a GTK4 application written in Rust programming language. With it, you may get wallpaper images from the following sources:
Inkscape 1.4.1, the free open-source vector graphics editor, is out with new features and many bug-fixes.
The new version is not officially announced yet, but the source tarball is out and the official PPA has been updated for Ubuntu users.
