News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
The March 2025 release of Visual Studio Code, aka 1.99, was released few days ago.
The new release introduced chat agent mode for VS Code Stable, which can be enabled by setting chat.agent.enabled.
With chat agent mode in Visual Studio Code, you can use natural language define a high-level task and to start an agentic code editing session to accomplish that task.
image from visualstudio.com
GNU Octave, the free open-source programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation, rolled out the new 10.1.0 release.
The official announcement is not ready at the moment of writing. Though, the source tarball was made available to download since last week. And, I’ve made the package into PPA for all current Ubuntu releases.
After 5 years since the last 20.03, the Code::Blocks IDE finally announced new 25.03 stable release few days ago.
The new Code::Blocks 25.03 added support for MinGW64, MSYS2, MSVC17 and TDM compilers, C++ standards 23 and 26 (and their gnu extensions), as well as new -std=c23 and -std=gnu23 options on GCC13 and newer.
Visual Studio Code 1.98, the February release of the IDE and code editor, was released!
The release added 2 new AI models, GPT 4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, to choose from when using Copilot, and allows to change the model for inline suggestions.
image from openai.com
Apache NetBeans announced new 25 release a few days ago. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu.
NetBeans 25 was released after 2 release candidates. It updated the user interface with another batch of SVG icons for better HiDPI display support, and switched SVG loading routine in ImageUtilities from the Batik library to the much more lightweight JSVG library.
Looking for a Cheat Engine like application to search and edit memory in Linux Desktop? Here’s a free open-source app work in process!
It’s MemSed (MEMory Search and EDit), an open-source tool written in C programming language. If you have ever used Cheat Engine to scan & edit memory for computer games, you’ll find that MemSed looks familiar, as it’s heavily inspired by the basic Cheat Engine workflow.
After 6 months of development, Go language announced new 1.24 release few days ago on Tuesday.
Go 1.24 now fully supports generic type aliases. Type aliases, a concept introduced in Go 1.9, allows to create a new name for an existing type without creating a new type. Previously, it didn’t support type parameters. But this changed in Go 1.24. See more about generic type aliases.
Visual Studio Code announce new monthly 1.97 release! Here are new features in the IDE release.
VS Code 1.97 is the first release in 2025. It added two more models OpenAI’s o3-mini and Gemini 2.0 Flash to choose from when using Copilot.
It introduced new Copilot Next Edit Suggestions (Copilot NES) preview feature to help with edits. Which, can both predicts the location of the next edit you’ll want to make and what that edit should be.
This tutorial shows how to install the most recent Apache NetBeans IDE v25 in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 24.10, and Debian 12 Bookworm, and their based systems, such as Linux Mint 22/21.
NetBeans is a free open-source (Apache License 2.0) Java IDE, that also supports other languages like PHP, C, C++, HTML5, and JavaScript via extensions.
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install the most recent Arduino IDE (2.3.4 so far) in Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint.
Arduino IDE is free open-source AVR development board IDE from Arduino CC. It’s available in Debian and Ubuntu repositories, but stuck at version 1.8.19, probably because the 2.x versions require internet connection.
If you want to get the 2.x release series, then there are 3 choices: Flatpak, AppImage, and portable Linux Zip archive that work in most Linux distributions.
