The Nvidia driver for Linux has reached the 370 series by releasing the 370.23 beta driver. TITAN X (Pascal) and GTX 1060 6GB are officially supported. Over- and under-clock GPUs feature added for GTX 1000 series and later.
Nvidia 370.23 also brings the “PixelShiftMode” MetaMode option, enabling support for 4K and 8K pixel shift displays.
Other changes include:
a Vulkan bug fix revolving around X11 swap chains
fix a mode-setting regression from 367.35
fix OpennGL / OpenGL ES driver crash and CUDA device querying crash
enable persistence mode by default for all GPUs when the daemon is started
How to install Nvidia 370.23 in Ubuntu 16.04, 14.04:
The Graphics Driver Team has made the new 370 driver series into PPA, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and also the next Ubuntu 16.10.
1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
Type in password when it asks and hit Enter.
2. Update system package index via:
sudo apt update
3. Finally launch Additional Drivers utility, select the nvidia-370 driver and click Apply changes.
After installing the new driver, restart your computer to take effect.
The second maintain release for the Virtualbox 5.1 series, Virtualbox 5.1.4, now is available for upgrade in the official Virtualbox Linux repository.
Oracle has not yet announced the release of Virtualbox 5.1.4 at the moment. The changelog will be available once it’s ready in the wiki page, and Linux binaries will be available for download in the Linux download page.
Those who have enabled Virtualbox Linux repository, Virtualbox 5.1.4 is now available for upgrade in Software Updater:
How to install Virtualbox 5.1.4 in Ubuntu
The new release is ready for upgrade for all current Ubuntu releases, include Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and their derivatives.
1. For those who don’t have VBox Linux repository enabled, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
replace xenial with trusty or precise for Ubuntu 14.04 or Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.
3. After adding the official Virtualbox Linux repository, launch Software Updater and you will be able to upgrade Virtualbox after checking for updates:
StepMania, an open-source and advanced cross-platform rhythm game, has reached the 5.0.12 release after a month and two weeks of release candidate testing.
StepMania 5.0.12 is probably the last maintain release for the 5.0 series. The developers are no focusing on the development of StepMania 5.1 branch.
Fixed bug that allowed pausing by pressing Select then Back. Pausing requires pressing the same button twice.
Default theme ignores holding Select, or Start during gameplay. The pause menu must be used to back out of a song.
Select Music
Added AllowHoldForOptions preference. When this is set to 0 (off), going to the player options screen requires pressing Start a second time, instead of holding it.
Fixed bug that deleted a warp on the same beat as a stop when saving.
Ready and Go announcer sounds no longer play simultaneously.
Fixed cmake settings so that player profiles can be loaded from USB drives once again.
Fixed crash in loading profiles from USB drives.
How to install StepMania 5.0.12 in Ubuntu:
Besides running the official Linux binary (non-install version in previous link), an unofficial PPA with stepmania packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 is available. And below is how to install the StepMania 5.0.12 via the PPA.
1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command below to add PPA:
After one month of development, the digiKam team announced the release of its photo management software digiKam 5.1.0 last night with new RAW cameras support and bug fixes.
DigiKam 5.1.0 brings a new huge bugs triage and some fixes, LibRaw 0.18 to support new lead RAW cameras, Mysql database interface consolidation, speed-up startup operation. Also the option to enable or disable the scan for new items at startup is back in Setup/Miscs dialog page.
The Ubuntu Team has announced the release of Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. It’s the fifth and final point release that includes new hardware enablement stack (HWE) from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.
We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with 14.04.5, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack for new installations to support new hardware across all our supported architectures, not just x86.
As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04.5:
Ubuntu 14.04 users can easily upgrade to the 14.04.5 point release by running a regular system update via Software Updater.
Or run the commands in terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Note that the updated hardware enablement stack, Kernel 4.4 and X graphics stack from 16.04, will be available through the update only for those who installed Ubuntu 14.04 using the 14.04.2 or newer disc image.
Those who installed Ubuntu 14.04 from the original or 14.04.1 disc image will keep the original Trusty stack. Anyone wishing to opt into the new Kernel and X graphics stack may do so by running the command below in terminal:
Mozilla Firefox 48.0 was released on Tuesday. The biggest change is that Electrolysis (E10S), the multiple processes architecture, is beginning to be enabled by default.
Electrolysis is the project name for Mozilla’s efforts to split Firefox into multiple processes to improve responsiveness, stability, and security. The first phase of this work was to split Firefox into a UI process and a content process.
Besides enabling E10S for some users. Firefox 48 also features:
Download Protection: potentially unwanted software and uncommon downloads.
Add-ons that have not been verified and signed by Mozilla will not load
Better Canvas performance with speedy Skia support for Linux
WebRTC embetterments:
Delay-agnostic AEC enabled
Full duplex for GNU/Linux enabled
ICE Restart & Update is supported
Cloning of MediaStream and MediaStreamTrack is now supported
Searching and various security improvements, and more at release page.
How to upgrade to Firefox 48 in Ubuntu:
The new Firefox release will be made into Updates/Security repositories very soon, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 12.04. (Check out THIS PAGE)
At that time, just launch Software Updater and install available updates after checking for updates.
If for some reason you don’t receive the updates for Firefox 48, launch Software & Updates and:
select Download from “Main Server” in first tab.
make sure the security and updates repositories enabled in Updates tab.
Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak now reaches the Alpha 2 release, features images for Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Kylin.
The second alpha of the Yakkety Yak (to become 16.10) has now been released!
This milestone features images for Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Kylin.
Pre-releases of the Yakkety Yak are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu flavor developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready.
Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is still an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.
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Ubuntu 16.10 Alpha 2 release highlights:
This Yakkety Yak snapshot still includes the v4.4 kernel
Lubuntu still uses LXDE since LXQt is still in development
MATE Tweak adds option to enable Heads-Up Display (HUD)
Linus Torvalds finally announced the release of the Linux Kernel 4.7. He wrote on lkml.org:
So, after a slight delay due to my travels, I’m back, and 4.7 is out.
Despite it being two weeks since rc7, the final patch wasn’t all that big, and much of it is trivial one- and few-liners. There’s a couple of network drivers that got a bit more loving. Appended is the shortlog since rc7 for people who care: it’s fairly spread out, with networking and some intel Kabylake GPU fixes being the most noticeable ones. But there’s random small noise spread all over.
Kernel 4.7 release highlights:
open source support for Radeon RX 480 GPUs
async discard support by the core block code
support for upgrading firmware using the EFI Capsule
New Linux Security Module (LSM) “LoadPin”
support for generating virtual USB Device Controllers in USB/IP
numerous drivers updates and lots of bug-fixes.
How to Install / Upgrade Kernel 4.7 in Ubuntu:
Ubuntu Kernel Team has made the binary packages for the new kernel release, available for download at the link below:
Depends on your OS type, grab and install the packages below one by one:
Select generic for common system, and lowlatency for a low latency system (e.g. for recording audio), amd64 for 64bit system and i386 for 32bit system.
You may also download these .deb packages in terminal / command console by running following commands one by one:
For any reason you want to remove this Kernel, start/restart your machine and select boot with the previous kernel in Grub2 -> Advanced menu. Then remove the 4.7 kernel via Ubuntu Tweak, or just follow this tutorial.
StormCloud, a stylish desktop weather app, now is resurrected! And it’s called Cumulus.
Cumulus is forked from Typhoon which is a community version forked from StormCloud 1.1. While Typhoon is not in active development, Daryl Bennett resurrect the weather app with the help of Typhoon developer in their spare time and its Cumulus.
Cumulus so far features:
temperature & wind speed support.
custom background color
adjust opacity
Unity Launch count that shows current temperature.
Known Bugs:
There are a few grey clouds spoiling an otherwise bright first run, including some opacity issues on first-run, dead links, broken support pages, and credits panel that credits the old developers.
Cumulus so far does not save location settings.
Download Cumulus:
The 64-bit .deb installer is available in the link below (PPA and snap package may be available in near future):
Click install the .deb package via Ubuntu Software and launch Cumulus from Unity Dash.
For those who have problem launching the app, try the command below to install gir1.2-webkit-3.0 in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
