Want to optimize your Linux desktop for responsiveness or gaming? Try the custom Libquorix or XanMod Kernels.
Besides the default and mainline Kernels, there are some other kernels available for Debian/Ubuntu users.
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This tutorial shows you how to completely remove the old VMWare Workstation player in Ubuntu 24.04 and Linux Mint 22.
I was trying to install the new VMWare Workstation Pro 17.6.1 today in my Ubuntu laptop. The official installer however told me to uninstall the old VMWare Player 17.5.0.0 first.
The problem was that wmware-installer somehow refused to uninstall the previous package, so I can’t get the new one installed! If you ran into similar issue, then this tutorial may help.
This is a step by step guide shows how to install and manage virtual machines using qemu/kvm solution in Ubuntu 24.04.
KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine, is a module in Linux Kernel that can function as a hypervisor. It offers a high performance virtualization environment with hardware virtualization extensions, such as Intel VT or AMD-V that’s built in CPU.
KVM does not directly function in user-space. It requires a user-space application, such as QEMU, to interact with it and manage virtual machines.
As QEMU is a command line tool, there’s also graphical tool, such as Virtual Machine Manager, to make it easy to use.
PHP, the popular scripting language for web development, announced new 8.4 release last week. Here’s how to install or upgrade to Php 8.4 in Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 to work with Apache2 or Nginx web server.
PHP 8.4 introduced a number of new features such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, lazy objects, an object API for BCMath, new array functions, and new JIT implementation based on IR Framework. See the release page for more.
This tutorial shows how to install and play the popular Minecraft sandbox game in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 21/22, and their based systems.
Minecraft has different editions, including Java, Bedrock, Legends, and Dungeons, as well as the discontinued Pi edition.
So far, only Minecraft Java edition runs natively in Linux. User can however install and play the Bedrock and Pi editions through sandbox environments, though they are unofficial and have limitations.
Hugin, the popular free open-source panoramic photo stitcher, released version 2024.0.0 last week and 2024.0.1 with quick fix few days ago.
One release per year! The new Hugin 2024.0.0 release features:
- Added browser for project files to Hugin. It can show thumbnails or project details of all project files in a directory.
- Create GPano tags also for cylindrical output projection.
- Several bug fixes for verdandi/internal blender.
- Fixes reading of metadata from cr3 raw files.
- cpfind is now using multirow strategy as default. If you want the old behaviour instead add the (new) switch
--allpairsto command line.
This tutorial shows how to install the most recent Shotwell photo manager and viewer, so far version 0.32.10, in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.
Shotwell is a free open-source photo manager designed for the GNOME Desktop. It’s pre-installed and default in Ubuntu Desktop, when you installed the system with default or full installation mode.
The photo manager features import photos from disk or camera, organize by time-based events, tags (keywords), folders, and more. It supports basic image editing, such as crop, rotate, color adjust, straighten, and enhance photos.
As well, it supports video and RAW photos, create wallpaper slideshow, and share your photos to major web services, including Flickr, Tumblr and YouTube.
This tutorial shows how to install Microsoft .NET software development framework (9.0, 8.0, or even 6.0, 7.0) in current Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Microsoft announced .NET 9 last week. It features over 1,000 performance related changes across the runtime, workloads, and languages. .NET Aspire 9 now has OpenAI, Ollama, Milvus integration, and preview support for Azure Functions. For other features and changes, see the announcement.
Boring with the default lock screen? Here’s a new extension to customize it from GNOME lock screen itself!
I’ve written about how to change lock screen background in Ubuntu with default GNOME desktop. Here’s now a new choice to do the job when you’re at the lock screen.
Meaning you don’t need to configure then lock (to see the change) and un-lock again and again. Just make changes on the fly, until it fits the best the you like.
Want to do performance test on your graphics card? Here I’m going to introduce some for you that work on Linux desktop.
Benchmark or stress test is a way to measure your hardware performance, tell if it’s working the way it should be, and compare with other devices.
When you got a new device, installed new drivers, or changed some configuration options, you may do the performance test on the device. And, here are some tools for benchmarking GPU in Linux.
