News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Don’t like the snap packages? Here’s the step by step guide shows how to completely remove and block them in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Snap is an universal Linux package format developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Similar to the Flatpak competitor, it runs applications in isolated sandbox environments, improving security and making possible to run most recent software in old Linux Distributions without worrying about dependency issues.
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Wine, the free open-source software for running Windows applications and games in Linux, macOS, and BSD, released new 11.14 development version.
The new version added WoW64 support for FreeBSD, allowing to run 32-bit Windows applications on a 64-bit system without needing a separate 32-bit Wine installation environment.
Ventoy, the popular solution for booting .iso images from USB, released new 1.1.17 version one day ago.
The new version of this free open-source software added two new Linux Distributions support, optimized Secure Boot process, and fixed many issues.
GNOME, the popular Linux Desktop, finally added keyboard navigation support for its built-in screenshot UI in the main branch.
Meaning if everything goes well, the next Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45 Workstation and other Linux with GNOME 51, will be able to use keyboard arrow keys to move or resize the screenshot selection area.
LibreOffice, the office suite that’s default many Linux such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE, released new 26.2.5 version today.
The new version of this free open-source office suite is the fifth maintenance update for the 26.2 branch, which features only bug fixes and stability improvements.
Ubuntu is finally going to remove the /etc/debian_version file to close a bug that was reported almost 21 years ago on July 31, 2005.
The Debian and Ubuntu developer, Benjamin Drung, announced the decision on Ubuntu Devel channel:
Hi everyone, any objection to remove /etc/debian_version from base-files? /etc/os-release has been the de-facto standard in the last 10 years. Tools that look at /etc/debian_version should look at /etc/os-release instead.
Please let me close this bug after 20 years:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/19353
For users switching from Windows, this tutorial shows you how to enable the Windows style “My Computer” (it’s now “This PC”) navigation item in the left pane of Ubuntu 26.04 default file manager.
Nautilus (aka GNOME Files) used to have a “Other Locations” item in left pane, allowing to take a quick glance at local disk volumes on your computer, access network drives, and connect remote sources.
Thunderbird, Mozilla’s free open-source PIM (personal information manager) software, released new 153.0 version on Wednesday.
The new version is an ESR (Extended Support Release) release, with more than one year support, designed for organization and education use.
Faugus, the simple and lightweight launcher for running Windows games in Linux using community builds of Valve’s Proton, released new 2.0.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2 in the past few days ago.
The new version of this free open-source application is finally ported to GTK4/LibAdwaita for modern user interface that looks native in Ubuntu, Fedora, etc distributions with recent GNOME Desktop.
COSMIC, the default desktop environment for System76’s Pop!_OS, released new 1.4.0 version today.
The new version of this free open-source Linux desktop, code-name “Epoch”, introduced some new features for its core system monitor app, and fixed various issues.
