News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
JetBrains announced the 2025.2 release of its PyCharm Python IDE today!
2025.2 will be the last supported version of PyCharm Community. In the next 2025.3, there will be only an unified PyCharm with core functionality (including Jupyter Notebook support) for free and a Pro subscription with additional features.
Flameshot, the popular free open-source screenshot tool, released new 13.0.0 version today with Qt6 port and many new features.
Flameshot is a powerful yet simple to use screenshot tool that features on-screen editing support. The app has been moving slowly since the last 12.1.0. And, it finally released new version after more than 3 years of development.
Libinput, the free open-source input library and driver, released new 1.29.0 version few days ago.
Libinput is a popular input library, that’s default in Ubuntu, Fedora, and many other Linux Distributions, for handling mice, keyboards, touchpads/touchscreens, and other input devices.
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VirtualBox 7.2.0 RC1, the third development release for the next major version of Oracle’s virtualization software, is available to download few days ago.
Compare to the last Beta, the RC1 release added explicit unattended installation support for Oracle Linux 10, while others are mostly bug-fixes.
VirtualBox 7.2.0
Ubuntu 25.10 snapshot 3, the third development release for the next Ubuntu release, is available for testing purpose.
As you may know, Ubuntu introduced monthly snapshot releases and released the first one in May 29. Now, the July release is finally available.
FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multi-media library, is going to release the new major 8.0 version in next few weeks in August.
Michael Niedermayer, the project lead announced in last week:
I intend to create the release/8.0 branch in the next 1-2 weeks after that i intend to make teh 8.0 release in the following 1-2 weeks.
After few weeks of Beta and RC testing, Shotcut video editor finally announced the release of 25.07 few days ago.
The new release introduced “System Fusion” theme that combines the operating system palette with the monochrome, symbolic icons of the Fusion themes.
For users of Music Player Daemon (MPD in short)? Here’s cool new client app in development for Linux desktop!
It’s euphonica, a free open-source app written Rust programming language and uses GTK4 + LibAwaita for modern user interface that’s well integrated with GNOME desktop.
Linux Kernel 6.16 was released last night! Linus Torvalds announced:
It’s Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end. Last week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises to keep us from the regular schedule, so I’ve tagged and pushed out 6.16 as planned.
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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