News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Elementary OS announced new 8.0 release this Tuesday! The code-name is Circe, and it’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Elementary OS is a desktop Linux distribution that features Pantheon desktop environment along with its own core apps. It used to be attractive, due to its desktop appearance, though now the UI is a bit lagging behind in my opinion.
This tutorial shows how to install and play the popular Minecraft sandbox game in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 21/22, and their based systems.
Minecraft has different editions, including Java, Bedrock, Legends, and Dungeons, as well as the discontinued Pi edition.
So far, only Minecraft Java edition runs natively in Linux. User can however install and play the Bedrock and Pi editions through sandbox environments, though they are unofficial and have limitations.
Hugin, the popular free open-source panoramic photo stitcher, released version 2024.0.0 last week and 2024.0.1 with quick fix few days ago.
One release per year! The new Hugin 2024.0.0 release features:
--allpairs to command line.
Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, announced new major 4.3 release this Tuesday with many exciting new features and performance improvements.
In the new release, the real-time renderer EEVEE now supports Light Linking and Shadow Linking, which was previously available only in Cycles. It now has a new Metallic BSDF node in shader editor, and, new texture node that can create procedural Gabor noise for random interleaved bands with controllable direction and width.
This tutorial shows how to install the most recent Shotwell photo manager and viewer, so far version 0.32.10, in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.
Shotwell is a free open-source photo manager designed for the GNOME Desktop. It’s pre-installed and default in Ubuntu Desktop, when you installed the system with default or full installation mode.
The photo manager features import photos from disk or camera, organize by time-based events, tags (keywords), folders, and more. It supports basic image editing, such as crop, rotate, color adjust, straighten, and enhance photos.
As well, it supports video and RAW photos, create wallpaper slideshow, and share your photos to major web services, including Flickr, Tumblr and YouTube.
Linux Kernel 6.12 was released! Linus Torvalds announced on Sunday:
“No strange surprises this last week, so we’re sticking to the regular release schedule, and that obviously means that the merge window opens
tomorrow. I already have two dozen+ pull requests in my mailbox, kudos to all the early birds.But before the merge window opens, please give this a quick test to make sure we didn’t mess anything up. The shortlog below gives you the summary for the last week, and nothing really jumps out at me. A number of last-minute reverts, and some random fairly small fixes fairly spread out in the tree.”
This tutorial shows how to install Microsoft .NET software development framework (9.0, 8.0, or even 6.0, 7.0) in current Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Microsoft announced .NET 9 last week. It features over 1,000 performance related changes across the runtime, workloads, and languages. .NET Aspire 9 now has OpenAI, Ollama, Milvus integration, and preview support for Azure Functions. For other features and changes, see the announcement.
Boring with the default lock screen? Here’s a new extension to customize it from GNOME lock screen itself!
I’ve written about how to change lock screen background in Ubuntu with default GNOME desktop. Here’s now a new choice to do the job when you’re at the lock screen.
Meaning you don’t need to configure then lock (to see the change) and un-lock again and again. Just make changes on the fly, until it fits the best the you like.
IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, the last major release in 2024, was released few days ago!
The release introduced new Logical code structure in the Structure tool window, allows to view classes, methods, fields, as well as links and interactions between components in your project.
K2 mode with Kotlin now it stable. With it enabled, it supports using non-local break and continue statements inside lambdas, as well as multi-dollar interpolation.
Want to do performance test on your graphics card? Here I’m going to introduce some for you that work on Linux desktop.
Benchmark or stress test is a way to measure your hardware performance, tell if it’s working the way it should be, and compare with other devices.
When you got a new device, installed new drivers, or changed some configuration options, you may do the performance test on the device. And, here are some tools for benchmarking GPU in Linux.
