News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Fooyin, the Foobar2000 alternative music player with native Linux support, released new 0.12.0 version today.
The new version of this free open-source Qt music player added native PulseAudio audio output, audio conversion, three new visualization plugins, as well as many improvements and bug-fixes.
Frame, the free open-source graphical front end for FFmpeg media library, released new 0.32.0 version for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
For those who never heard of Frame, it’s a Rust written application that use GPUI-CE (the community edition of GPU-accelerated user interface framework) for a modern graphical interface to manage FFmpeg operations.
Mission Center, the modern popular Linux system monitor application, released new 1.2.0 version one day ago.
The new version of this free open-source Rust written and GTK4/LibAdwaita based application finally added monitoring support for laptop battery.
After more than a year of development, the RawTherapee raw photo development program, was finally tagged the new 5.13 version.
The new version of this free open-source raw developer enhanced its built-in tools, improved HiDPI support, and added support for more cameras, raw formats, and color profiles.
Auto-cpufreq, automatic CPU speed & power optimizer tool for Linux, released new 3.1.0 version an hour ago.
The new version of this free open-source tool improved its graphical user interface with some new functions, and fixed various bugs.
Don’t like the snap packages? Here’s the step by step guide shows how to completely remove and block them in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Snap is an universal Linux package format developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Similar to the Flatpak competitor, it runs applications in isolated sandbox environments, improving security and making possible to run most recent software in old Linux Distributions without worrying about dependency issues.
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Wine, the free open-source software for running Windows applications and games in Linux, macOS, and BSD, released new 11.14 development version.
The new version added WoW64 support for FreeBSD, allowing to run 32-bit Windows applications on a 64-bit system without needing a separate 32-bit Wine installation environment.
Ventoy, the popular solution for booting .iso images from USB, released new 1.1.17 version one day ago.
The new version of this free open-source software added two new Linux Distributions support, optimized Secure Boot process, and fixed many issues.
GNOME, the popular Linux Desktop, finally added keyboard navigation support for its built-in screenshot UI in the main branch.
Meaning if everything goes well, the next Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45 Workstation and other Linux with GNOME 51, will be able to use keyboard arrow keys to move or resize the screenshot selection area.
LibreOffice, the office suite that’s default many Linux such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE, released new 26.2.5 version today.
The new version of this free open-source office suite is the fifth maintenance update for the 26.2 branch, which features only bug fixes and stability improvements.
