Section: News

Resources beta adds PowerPC temp, AMD NPU stats

Resources 51 beta, the system monitor Ubuntu now uses, adds AMD NPU stats, PowerPC CPU temps and alternative memory-usage metrics.

10 hours ago

Rhythmbox 3.5 lets you sync your podcast listening across apps

Rhythmbox 3.5.0 is out and it now lets you sync podcast subscriptions and listening progress across apps – the standout feature in the music player’s first major release in nine months

17 hours ago
15 new icons from the Paprius icon pack

Papirus icon set gets first update in over a year with 80+ new icons

Fans of the Papirus icon theme will be pleased to hear there’s a new update – the first since May 2025. Papirus’s first update in 2026 (the tardiness of which its maintainer, Serhii Yeremenko, apologises for) brings […]

Tuesday
Dropbeat GNOME Shell extension showing now playing info in various ways

Dropbeat is yet another flashy music controller for GNOME Shell

Dropbeat is a new riff on an old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of […]

Tuesday

Ubuntu’s turning another system Deb package into a snap

Ubuntu is moving hwctl from Deb package to snap-only distribution, a change Canonical says improves security and desktop integration.

Monday
ubuntu logo on clouds

Curl dropped from Ubuntu 26.04 minimal cloud images by mistake

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images have been missing curl – accidentally, it turns out, so Canonical has put it back. Curl is a commonly-used command-line tool for fetching files from remote servers. It’s called […]

Monday
Linux mascot holding a bag filled with the icons of various open source apps

Linux App Release Roundup (July 2026)

If you spent July dodging the summer heatwave, catch up on the best Linux app releases and updates you might have missed last month in this roundup. You likely already know about the Firefox 153 […]

Sunday
Ubuntu logo clock with Alberta and morocco flags denoting time zone changes

Ubuntu’s ready for Alberta and Morocco time zone changes

Times are literally changing and Ubuntu’s keeping pace – well, kinda. In November, most of Canada will turn its clocks back an hour, but the Western Canadian province of Alberta won’t. It’s decided to stay […]

Saturday

Starling is a new Linux desktop built using AI in six months

Some Linux desktop environments were developed over decades, others in just a few years. Starling, which made the rounds online this week, claims to have been built by just one person in six months using […]

Friday

Mosaic adds automatic window tiling to GNOME Shell

Mosaic brings automatic tiling to GNOME Shell, but without asking you to use it permanently. Turn it on when you want windows to arrange themselves, turn it off when you want floating windows back. The […]

29 July 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 virtualization HWE stack offers newer QEMU & libvirt

Ubuntu’s hardware enablement (HWE) effort has expanded to include backports of newer virtualisation tech to users of the current LTS release. The virtualization HWE stack from Canonical will let users benefit from newer versions of QEMU, […]

28 July 2026

Mission Center adds battery, partition and power draw info

A new version of Linux system monitoring app Mission Center is available for download, adding new hardware stats, first-run setup prompt and bug fixes. Mission Center 1.2.0 adds a new Battery page in the Performance […]

27 July 2026