News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
GNU Emacs, the powerful text editor, released new 31.1 version a few days ago.
The new version was launched nearly a year after the previous release. It features much better completion, more powerful window/frame management, unicode 17, and many other changes.
Go language (aka Golang) released new major 1.27 version in last week, six months after the last 1.26.
The new version of this popular programming language added support generic methods, which can now declare their own type parameters, making generics more flexible.
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install the GCC 16 compiler in Ubuntu 24.04 / Linux Mint 22.x, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and even the old Ubuntu 18.04.
GCC 16 is so far the latest major version of the GNU Compiler Collection. It’s available in Ubuntu 26.04 repository but non-default.
This tutorial shows how to install the latest .NET 11.0.0 (preview so far) runtime and/or SDK in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04 via DEB package.
Version 11 of Microsoft’s open-source .NET developer platform is currently in preview. The final release is expected in November 2026.
IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains’ Java IDE, released new major 2026.2 version today for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
The new version of this software introduced some AI updates, new Java, Kotlin, TypeScript languages support, and many other improvements.
GNU Octave, the open-source programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation, released new 11.2.0 version a few days ago.
This is the second release in the 11.x series, which features many performance and core improvements, GUI enhancements, documentation updates, and bug-fixes.
GNU Octave, the free open-source scientific programming language, released new major 11.1.0 version yesterday.
This is the first release in version 11, that introduced many new functions, performance improvements, and some UI changes.
Visual Studio Code 1.109, the January 2026 release of Microsoft’s AI code editor, was released few days ago.
The new monthly release introduced preview support for Claude Agent, allowing to delegate tasks to the Claude Agent SDK using the Claude models included in your GitHub Copilot subscription.
Visual Studio Code 1.108, the December 2025 version of this free open-source code editor, was released yesterday.
The new version introduced experimental Agent Skills support, to customize the agent behavior for specialized tasks.
For developers and those who need most recent or different but non-default Python versions, Ubuntu now has an “official” backport PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Ubuntu has Python pre-installed, but it won’t update the major version number. It has Python 3.10 for Ubuntu 20.04, Python 3.12 for Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04 so far defaults to Python 3.13.
