Section: News

Mozilla Announce Leadership Changes, Plans to ‘Diversify’

Mozilla Corporation’s president, Mark Surman, today announced plans to tackle what he says are ‘major headwinds’ facing the company’s ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant. “Mozilla’s impact and survival depend on us simultaneously […]

19 February 2025
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Mesa 25.0 Released with Support for Vulkan 1.4 & OpenGL 4.6

A new version of the Mesa graphics library has been released. Mesa 25.0 features Vulkan 1.4 support, which the team bill as the ‘flashiest addition’ in this new development release as it spans Anv (Intel), […]

19 February 2025
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Power Profiles Daemon 0.30 Preps Support for Linux 6.14

A new version of the Power Profiles Daemon (PPD) was uploaded to the Plucky archives today, and should soon make its way out to Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds —but what’s changed? The power-profiles-daemon is what those […]

18 February 2025
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Ubuntu LTS Users Might Soon Get Frequent Intel GPU Updates

This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to bring an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack with it. Ubuntu’s HWE backports newer1 Linux kernel […]

17 February 2025

Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Expands Window Suggestions

A new version of Tiling Shell, the flexible window snapping assistant for GNOME Shell, is available. Tiling Shell v16.2 now surfaces nifty ‘Window Suggestions’, a feature introduced in last month’s v16.0 release, when using edge […]

15 February 2025

Ubuntu to Fix a Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’ in its Icon Theme

Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t say I had either! But it turns out some of Yaru’s icons are […]

13 February 2025

Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Week

If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop February 13, I come bearing some a punch of awk news: the release has been delayed. Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta reports that an ‘unfortunate incident’ resulting in […]

12 February 2025

GNOME’s Website Just Got a Major Redesign

GNOME rolled out a huge revamp to its official website today, and I have to say: it’s a solid improvement over the old one. The official GNOME website has an important role, serving as both […]

12 February 2025

Clapper Media Player Adds New Features, Official Windows Build

A new version of the slick Clapper media player is out with several neat improvements Not newly new, I should say. I hadn’t run a flatpak update in Ubuntu I an age so I only […]

12 February 2025

KDE Plasma 6.3 Released, This is What’s New

A new version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment is out and, as you’d expect, the update is packed with new features, UI tweaks, and performance boosts. KDE Plasma 6.3 is the fourth major update […]

11 February 2025

ONLYOFFICE 8.3 Released, Now Supports Apple iWork Files

A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is now available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.3 brings a bunch of new features and nimble enhancements spread throughout […]

9 February 2025

Ghostty Terminal Now Supports Server-Side Decorations on Linux

A new version of Ghostty emerged this week and in this post I run-through the key changes. For those unfamiliar with it, Ghostty is an open-source terminal emulator written in Zig. It offers a “fast, feature-rich, […]

7 February 2025

LibreOffice 25.2 Released, This is What’s New

LibreOffice 25.2 has been released, this year’s first major update to the leading open-source office software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. As you’d expect, the update delivers a sizeable set of changes spread throughout the […]

6 February 2025
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Installing Ubuntu on WSL in Windows 11 is Now Easier

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) user? If so, you will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distro format — no need to use the sluggish Microsoft Store. Canonical […]

5 February 2025

Firefox 135 Brings New Tab Page Tweaks, AI Chatbot Access + More

Right on schedule, a new update to the Mozilla Firefox web browser is available for download. Last month’s Firefox 134 release saw the New Tab page layout refreshed for users in the United States, let […]

4 February 2025
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Linux Icon Pack Papirus Gets First Update in 8 Months

Fans of the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops will be happy to hear a new version is available for download. Paprius‘s first update for 2025 improves support for KDE Plasma 6, adding Konversation, KTorrent […]

2 February 2025
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GNOME 48 Introduces New Default Adwaita Fonts

GNOME 48 uses a new default UI and monospace font, though this typographic turnabout won’t impact Ubuntu users directly. If you feel a sense of deja vu it’s because GNOME tested a font switch before, […]

2 February 2025

Try Mozilla’s New AI Detector Add-On for Firefox

Want to find out if the text you’re reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model (LLM) trying to sound like one? Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox […]

1 February 2025