News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
GIMP image editor announced the new 2.99.18 development release today. It’s marked as the last dev release for the next major 3.0 version.
The new release has a new welcome dialog, with Personalize tab to set your favorite theme, icon and font scaling, and select program language, Contribute tab with a few links for who want to contribute to GIMP, and Create tab with quick buttons to create, open, open recent images. It as well has an option to enable on every start.
For those who are interested in the development of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the developer team has opened a channel for the desktop installer usability test.
Anyone can try out the desktop installer by simply visiting a page in web browser. It will ask to grant permission to share the screen of browser window (Screen Sharing), so developer team can know where you spend time, get stuck, and go smoothly.
Also it asks to enable Microphone, so you can tell what you’re thinking as you go. And, of course either or both can be disabled!
Continue Reading…
Free and open source DJ software, Mixxx, finally released the new major 2.4 version few days ago.
The new release added support for exporting crates, playlists and the library to Engine DJ OS devices, including Denon and Numark standalone controllers.
Mixxx 2.4 added support for Saved Loops, which can be assigned to any Hot Cue slot. If you already have tracks from Serato DJ with Saved Loops, it will import them automatically.
The release also introduced Effect Chains, a set of effects which can be saved and reloaded with all their parameters and individual Meta Knob mappings. Effect Chains can also be exported and imported, which allows you to share them with other Mixxx DJs.
gThumb image viewer and organizer released new 3.12.5 release this Sunday. It is a small release only contains translation updates and a few bug-fixes.
Bug fixes in the release include:
Nothing else!
Mozilla Firefox web browser version 123.0 now is available to download!
In the new monthly release, Firefox View page now have “Search” function, allows to search a page from each tab of recent browsing, recent closed tabs, open tabs, tab from other devices, and history.
Firefox 123.0 also added a new menu option to easily report web compatibility issue for currently tab.
GNOME 46, the default desktop environment for next Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40, now is in Beta stage. It’s now the best time for developers to test their applications and shell extensions.
Gnome 46 features explicit Global Search for the Files, redesigned Privacy settings page, added new System panel in Gnome Control Center, and support headless remote login. See more new features about GNOME 46.
The Beta release was announced few days ago, and it marks the start of the UI, feature and API freezes. The changes in the release include:
Songs view, and drop old-style selection modeFor more about the beta release and installer image for testing purpose, see the official announcement. And, the final release of GNOME 46 will be available in next month, see the Wiki page for schedule.
Drawpile, free open-source collaborative drawing program, announced new 2.2.1 release yesterday!
This is the first update for the 2.2 release series that comes with numerous bug-fixes, as well as some new features.
The server now implements WebSocket support, which is available with the --websocket-port and --websocket-listen options. And, it’s improved with some new actions including:
The new Drawpile 2.2.1 also added experimental support for high-DPI interface scaling, optimize classic brush calculation to make them much faster, and allow toggling performance-related canvas view settings to avoid slowing down in some systems.
Gambas released new 3.19.0 few days ago. Here’s the new features and how to to install guide for Ubuntu users!
Gambas is a full-featured object-oriented language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. It’s made up of a compiler, interpreter, archiver, scripter, development environment, and many extension components, for easily developing command-line, GTK2/GTK3, Qt, Database, Web, SDL applications.
The latest version so far is Gambas 3.19.0 that includes many exciting new features. First, as you see above, it has a new app icon that’s called gambas-thin. Though, I personally prefer the old one a bit more.
old gambas3 icon
The new release brings huge improvements to interpreter, to make it faster than Python, Perl and Java interpreters in all benchmarks!
Continue Reading…
Ubuntu Studio, the official Ubuntu flavor, opens wallpaper competition for the next 24.04 LTS release!
Ubuntu Studio is one of the official Ubuntu flavors, that features KDE Plasma desktop environment and aims to general multimedia production.
The developer team opens the wallpaper competition on February 16. All users (needs login) can submit their own artworks until March 11. And 5 winner images will be shipped (as optional wallpapers) in Ubuntu Studio 24.04 iso image.
image name Charge by Aaron Rainbolt
Like the Ubuntu 24.04 wallpaper competition, the AI generated artwork is NOT allowed in this one, due to active legal debates and license issue of the popular AI generation tools.
The competition rules include:
Differently, this competition will NOT include any wallpaper that wins in the Ubuntu 24.04 Wallpaper Competition (see link above).
And, due to lack of time constraints, there will be no community vote this time, instead, Ubuntu Studio Project Leader and Art Leader will judge which images win.
The entrance of the contest:
Darktable photography workflow application and RAW developer released new stable 4.6.1 yesterday!
The release finished the documentation for the new 4.6 release series, include translations to Ukrainian, Polish and Dutch.
And, it now performs image discovery asynchronously in the import dialog. Meaning that long parsing due to huge number of sub-directories and
files can be easily interrupted by selecting another place or un-checking recursive mode.
The release now drops support for macOS versions older than 12.5. Other changes are mostly bug-fixes. They include:
For more, see the github releases page for details.
