News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
PHP, the popular scripting language for web development, announced new 8.5 release few days ago. Here’s how to install or upgrade to Php 8.5 in Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 to work with Apache2 or Nginx web server.
PHP 8.5 introduced a number of new features such as new “URI” extension, new pipe operator (|>), new #[\NoDiscard] attribute, support for closures, casts, and first class callables in constant expressions, and much more. See the release page for more.
GDM Settings, the graphical configuration tool for GNOME Login Screen, released version 5.0 hours ago with new features!
GDM Settings (Gnome Display Manager Settings) is a free open-source tool that provides graphical options to configure background, themes, fonts, etc for login screen in Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation and other Linux with GNOME Desktop.
The application just released 5.0 version today. Here are the new features and how to install guide in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 24.10!
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 (version 0.32.14 updated) in Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 25.04.
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.
