News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multi-media library, is going to release the new major 8.0 version in next few weeks in August.
Michael Niedermayer, the project lead announced in last week:
I intend to create the release/8.0 branch in the next 1-2 weeks after that i intend to make teh 8.0 release in the following 1-2 weeks.
After few weeks of Beta and RC testing, Shotcut video editor finally announced the release of 25.07 few days ago.
The new release introduced “System Fusion” theme that combines the operating system palette with the monochrome, symbolic icons of the Fusion themes.
For users of Music Player Daemon (MPD in short)? Here’s cool new client app in development for Linux desktop!
It’s euphonica, a free open-source app written Rust programming language and uses GTK4 + LibAwaita for modern user interface that’s well integrated with GNOME desktop.
Linux Kernel 6.16 was released last night! Linus Torvalds announced:
It’s Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end. Last week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises to keep us from the regular schedule, so I’ve tagged and pushed out 6.16 as planned.
This is a step by step guide shows how to install and configure Music Player Daemon (MPD) in Ubuntu 24.04 and higher with default PipeWire sound server.
MPD is a free open-source audio player that can handle large music collection (tens of thousands of songs) while being very fast and using few resources.
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For testing purpose, Microsoft .NET 10 (preview version so far) is available to install in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and 25.04 through PPA.
.NET 10 is the next LTS (Long Term Support) release with 3 years of support. It’s so far in preview development stage, while the full release is expected in November 2025.
User of Chrome, Chromium, or Vivaldi? Here are Ubuntu artwork themes for your web browser!
Mauro Gaspari, the Ubuntu Team member has been working on creating Ubuntu artwork themes for Chrome and Vivaldi browsers since a year ago.
With the themes, you web browser will have an orange header bar, with Ubuntu wallpaper as background in empty tabs. While tab and inactive tab use Ubuntu colors from the Ubuntu color palette, and frame uses colors picked from the new tab background.
Chromium with Ubuntu Jammy theme
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.
