News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
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.
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.
