A new version of Turntable, the standalone music scrobbling tool and desktop ‘now playing’ controls for Linux, is out with a couple of notable new features. Given the app is a conduit for relaying your listening habits, this update adds “wrapped year-in-review” style recap of your hither logged listening habits. Well, kinda. Turntable’s developer, Evan Paterakis, says the year-end recap feature is an ‘experiment’ so far from perfect. This is because the app doesn’t track your listening habits itself, merely relays it to your preferred service. Since “different services provide different levels of information and assets and almost none provide […]
Ghostty, the fast GPU‑accelerated terminal, now operates under a non‑profit funding model through fiscal sponsorship with Hack Club. Here’s what it means.
Want to run COSMIC desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS? A new (unofficial) PPA makes it easy to. Follow the steps in this guide, learn about the caveats and how to 'undo'.
A new version of Ubuntu-based Linux distribution elementary OS is available to download. The elementary OS 8.1 ‘Circe’ release is built atop a Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS base and runs the Linux 6.14 kernel by default. A raft of improvements to the Pantheon desktop environment, core apps, and the wider user experience are included. Danielle Fore, the elementary team lead, says this release follows through on the team’s release goals for OS 8, improve support for devices and inclusivity, and address feedback from its users – “with over 1,100 issue reports fixed”, she says. November 2024 saw the release of elementary OS 8.0 […]
Add an animated Santa desktop pet to Ubuntu with Gnomelets GNOME extension. See Santa walk on windows, jump and roam your screen. Works with GNOME 45+.
A new look app menu, expanded search abilities in the file manager and a modern on-screen keyboard are among new features in Linux Mint 22.3, which just hit beta. Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is the fourth and final update in the Linux Mint 22 branch, building on the many changes the Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” delivered in early autumn. Linux Mint 22.3 is based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, so inherits all of the foundational goodies from its upstream kin, including Linux 6.14 kernel (with access to the Ubuntu HWE updates – Linux kernel 6.17 and Mesa 25.2 are due in the coming weeks). […]
Canonical confirms Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will ship with Linux kernel 6.20 (7.0) in April, bringing latest hardware support and performance improvements to users.
Kdenlive has issued an end-of-year update, and it brings configurable layouts and a smarter way to handle vertical video projects. Kdenlive 25.12.0 introduces a new docking system, which the editor’s developers describe as ‘more flexible’. You can group widgets you want together and quickly show or hide them. Layout can be saved as a file (making them shareable) as well as part of the project file itself. The latter change could prove incredibly handy for those working on different kinds of edits, as it means any customised/re-arrange layout is restored whenever the project is reopened. “The downside”, Kdenlive devs note, […]
Free video editing software OpenShot has issued its yearly update, and it’s packing a pretty sizeable changelog. OpenShot 3.4 claims (as seemingly every release of this open source video editor does) it is “one of our largest updates we’ve ever done” Developer Jonathan Thomas touts an “overall 32% speed up in performance, lower memory utilization, many new video effects and features, many bugs and crashes fixed, and an experimental timeline for those brave enough to test [it]”. For most, the performance gains are the headline draw. The underlying libopenshot core sees improvements in many areas, including masking, cropping and clip […]
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo has finally taken up his role as CEO of Mozilla Corporation, publishing a blog post to celebrate in which he spells out the company’s “next chapter”. The headline news? He says Firefox will remain an “anchor” for the company, but confirms it is to “evolve into a modern AI browser” — to unlock new revenue opportunities for the company. Enzor-DeMeo’s post is refreshingly light on the GPT-isms most of Mozilla’s recent public output is full of, suggesting that a human wrote it. But the vision laid out within reads like one where revenue matters more than users do. My […]
A second GIMP 3.2 release candidate (RC) is now available for testing, should you fancy sampling the various changes on course for the upcoming stable release. GIMP 3.2 iterates on the huge GIMP 3.0 release that landed earlier this year, which took more than 7 years to get in to shape. No lengthy gap for GIMP 3.2 or successors as the team switches to an accelerated development cycle. Below I run through what’s changed since GIMP 3.2 RC1. That build, along with the GIMP 3.1.2 & 3.1.4 dev releases, added lots of new features. There are no new features here, as the point […]
Ever wondered how secure the apps you install from the Snap Store are? A new website from Ubuntu alumnus Alan Pope makes it easy to find out. The Snapscope website uses Grype, an open‑source vulnerability scanner, to vet packages on the Snap Store for known security vulnerabilities (critical, high, medium, low, actively exploited) which could affect them (and their users). You can “search for any snap package, see its security posture, and dig into the CVEs”, with its maker noting that the site presents “no judgement, just facts”. Snapscope make it easy to see: : Alan shares a video walkthrough […]
The second Ubuntu 26.04 snapshot is ready to download, making testing of 'Resolute Raccoon' ahead of next April's stable release easier. Details inside.
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS is available for download, the first version of the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution to use System76’s all-new Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. It’s been a “long ride” to get here (building an entirely new Linux desktop, compositor, widget toolkit, and suite of first-party apps is no mean feat). System76 announced plans to build COSMIC in 2021, and a series of alpha and beta builds followed. Now, it’s out in orbit, joining the constellation of Linux distros (cheesy, eh). Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76, says the company is “proud of this contribution to the open source ecosystem”, and […]
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