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NVIDIA 570.86.16 Beta Driver added VRR Support on Multiple Monitors

Last updated: February 3, 2025 — 1 Comment

NVIDIA released first Beta of the 570 driver series for Linux users a few days ago. See what’s new in this new driver.

NVIDIA Linux driver introduced VRR support for Wayland since 560 driver series. It’s a feature that adjust the monitor’s refresh rate on the fly, to match the frame rate of output signal from the graphics card.

The feature is useful for games to eliminate screen tearing and also lowers power consumption. And the new 570.86.16 driver enhanced it by supporting variable refresh rate (VRR) on systems with multiple monitors.

NVIDIA Settings 570

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LibreOffice 25.2.0 is out! Auto Signature, ODF 1.4, New Theming System

Last updated: February 6, 2025 — Leave a comment

LibreOffice, the popular free open-source office suite, rolls out the new 25.2.0 release! LibreOffice 25.2 is the third release series after switched to date-based version numbering system. The official Flatpak package has been updated for all Linux users, ~~though the announcement is not ready yet at the moment~~.

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Shotcut 25.01 Released with Built-in File Browser & New Filters

Last updated: January 26, 2025 — 1 Comment

Shotcut video editor released new 25.01 version today. See what’s new in this monthly release and how to install guide for Ubuntu.

Shotcut 25.01 introduced built-in file browser that can be toggled on/off through either “View -> Files” menu or Ctrl+Shift+4 keyboard shortcut. In addition, there’s new “Show in Files” option in Properties and Jobs, to quickly locate the file in built-in file browser.

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GNOME 48 Alpha Released! Battery Charge Limiting & Screen Time Limiting

Last updated: January 25, 2025 — Leave a comment

The first alpha release of GNOME 48 is out today! See what’s new in the desktop environment that will be default in next Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42.

First, GNOME 48 introduced new core app called Decibels. It’s a simple audio player that features playback speed adjustment, easy seek controls, and shows the waveform of the track.

GNOME 48

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Wine 10.0 Released with High-DPI Scaling & Full ARM64EC Support

Last updated: January 23, 2025 — 2 Comments

Wine, the popular free open-source compatibility layer for running Windows apps/games in Linux/Unix, announced new 10.0 major release on Tuesday!

The new release features Hi-DPI scaling support. Instead of exposing high-DPI sizes to applications that don’t expect it, it now automatically scale non-DPI aware windows.

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VirtualBox 7.1.6 is out! RHEL 9.6 kernel Support & Screen Flickering Fix

Last updated: January 22, 2025 — Leave a comment

Oracle announced new Virtualbox 7.1.6 release this Tuesday with various bug-fixes, performance improvements, and minor new features.

VirtualBox had heavy screen tearing and flickering issue in Linux VMs running with recent Kernel and Wayland for a period of time, that’s why I switched to QEMU/KVM.

Since the last 7.1.4, VirtualBox greatly improved the flickering, black screen and other screen update issues. In the new release, it also fixed issue with Linux guest screen flickering when guest was using VMSVGA graphics adapter.

Meaning now recent Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation and other Linux with Wayland work great again in VirtualBox virtual machines!

screen tearing and flickering issue finally fixed

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Linux Kernel 6.13 is out! NVMe 2.1, CPUFreq within VMs & Better Alienware Support

Last updated: January 20, 2025 — Leave a comment

Linux Kernel 6.13 is released! Linus Torvalds announced it in lkml.org on Sunday:

So nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week, so I’ve tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release.

It’s mostly some final driver fixes (gpu and networking dominating – normal), with some doc updates too. And various little stuff all over. The shortlog is appended for people who want to see the details (and, as always, it’s just the shortlog for the last week, the full 6.13 log is obviously much too big).

The new kernel introduced many new drivers, performance improvements, new & updated hardware support!

For AMD, it features new AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver, for Ryzen X3D CPUs with larger 3D V-Cache to help optimize performance, supports PCIe TPH that is found with new AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” servers, and uses AMD P-State driver as default in these CPUs.

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Kodi 21.2 is Out! Significantly Faster Library Scan & Lots of Fixes

Last updated: January 18, 2025 — Leave a comment

Kodi, the popular free open-source home theater software, released new 21.2 version today with many improvements and tons of bug-fixes.

First, the new Kodi 21.2 features significant speed increase of library scans (back to v20 level) as well as faster artwork caching.

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Linux Mint 22.1 is out! Cinnamon 6.4, New Theme, Night Light

Last updated: August 10, 2025 — 2 Comments

Linux Mint 22.1, code-name “Xia”, is finally available to download after 1 month of beta testing.

Linux Mint 22.x is based on Ubuntu 24.04 with long term support until 2029! The first point release features Cinnamon Desktop 6.4, that includes new default theme with rounder design and flat style buttons.

Following GNOME and Plasma 6’s design, the start menu, indicator applets, and panel context menus in Linux Mint 22.1 are now rounder and floating away from the bottom panel, which looks more modern.