News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Amarok, the free open-source KDE music player, released new 3.3 version on Tuesday, named “Far Above the Clouds”.
Amarok is one of the oldest Linux music player started in 2003. It’s revived in last year with port to Qt5 and KF5. By releasing v3.3, Amarok is now ported to Qt6/KF6, while Qt5/KF5 support has been dropped.
After more than a month of Beta and RC testing, OBS Studio 31.1.0 finally officially released today!
The new release of this popular free open-source live streaming and screen recording software added many new features, various improvements, and dozens of bug-fixes.
The first alpha release of GNOME Desktop 49 is out for testing purpose!
The developer team announced the release of this alpha one day ago. And, if everything goes well, GNOME 49 will be default in Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora Workstation 43.
After more than one and half year of development, the free open-source geany text editor released new major 2.1 version!
The new release of this lightweight IDE is named “Yage”. It added geany-themes, the separated color schemes in built-in.
Meaning users can now easily change the color scheme from “View” menu, without downloading & installing the themes manually.
For NVIDIA users, the latest 575 series driver has been made into Ubuntu repository. Meaning you need a third-party PPA any more.
NVIDIA 575 so far is the latest feature branch Linux driver that improved performance for gaming and power management.
This tutorial shows how to remap touchpad tapping, so you Ubuntu will use 2-finger tap on touchpad as middle click (or paste), and 3-finger tap as right-click action.
GNOME, the default desktop in Ubuntu, has switched to Wayland and is going to drop classic Xorg session, the old method to remap touchpad tap buttons does not work anymore. Here’s the new method to do the job in recent Ubuntu releases e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04.
Converseen, the popular batch image converting / resizing application, released new 0.15.0.0 version yesterday.
The new release of this popular free open-source app finally added options to choose a different theme, though only few choices are available so far.
GnuCash, the popular free open-source accounting software, released new 5.12 version yesterday.
This is the twelfth point release for 5.x release series that introduced various bug-fixes, improvements, and translation updates. And, for Ubuntu users, the “Gnucash packaging team” PPA revived.
App Center disappeared, instead it shows you the old Ubuntu Software in your Ubuntu 24.04? Here’s how to fix the issue.
As you know, Ubuntu switched to App Center since 23.10. While, the old Ubuntu Software is still in use for Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04. And, both are Snap Store.
VirtualBox 7.2.0, the next major release of Oracle’s virtualization software, is now in second beta testing stage.
VBox 7.2.0 Beta 1 redesigned its UI with vertical menu options in left, allowing to navigate between Machines, Extensions, Media, Network, Cloud, Resources, as well as Home to get started.
It also added support running Windows 11 ARM as guest, and updated Windows installer with Arm virtualization support built-in.
VirtualBox 7.2.0 Beta
