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Updated: VS Code Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support, Devs ‘Screwed’

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS — a move causing issues for thousands of developers. VS Code 1.86 (aka the ‘January 2024’ update) sees Microsoft bump the minimum […]

1 February 2024
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Linux Mint 22: Codename & New Cinnamon Feature Revealed

Linux Mint developers have shared a couple of tidbits about the next major release, which is expected to debut in early summer. First up, the codename: Linux Mint 22 will be called ‘Wilma’. Not a […]

31 January 2024

LibreOffice 24.2 Released, This is What’s New

A brand new version of free, open-source office suite LibreOffice is ready to download. LibreOffice 24.2 is the follow up to last year’s LibreOffice 7.6 release. A leap because the latest edition is the first […]

31 January 2024
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Firefox 122 released with official DEB for Ubuntu

Mozilla Firefox 122 has been officially released, with an official Deb package debuting alongside it. Yes: there’s now an official Firefox Deb package for Debian-based distros, including Ubuntu. This gives users a safe, reliable way […]

23 January 2024
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Ubuntu Pro Packages in ‘Software Updater’ Garner Criticism

It seems some users aren’t happy that there’s (currently) no way to disable Ubuntu Pro package updates from showing in the Software Updater tool in Ubuntu LTS releases. Last year, Canonical updated update-manager (aka Software […]

22 January 2024

Linux Mint 21.3 Edge ISO Offers Newer Hardware Support

Linux Mint developers have announced the release of the Linux Mint 21.3 Edge ISO, which is powered by Linux kernel 6.5. The standard Linux Mint 21.3 release that arrived a few weeks back uses the Linux 5.15 […]

22 January 2024

AYANEO’s New NES-Style Mini PC: Pretty, and Pretty Powerful

Remember the AYANEO mini PC I wrote about last year? You know, the one that looked like a classic Macintosh, ran Windows 11, and was advertised as being Ubuntu-friendly? Well, forget it. —Wait, you already […]

18 January 2024

Canonical’s Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

Canonical may be ramping up its efforts to improve the Ubuntu gaming experience — yasss — but it seems their Steam snap package is causing a few headaches for Valve. Timothée Besset, a software engineer […]

17 January 2024

Wine 9.0 Released with Experimental Wayland Driver

Developers have popped the cork on a new stable release of Wine, the open-source compatibility layer that lets you run Windows apps and games on Linux. Wine 9.0 release’s cup runneth over with enhancements, refinements, […]

17 January 2024

The KDE Plasma 6.0 Default Wallpaper is a Real Winner

The winner of the KDE Plasma 6.0 wallpaper competition has been announced. In August of last year KDE devs launched a community-based contest to select a new default wallpaper for KDE Plasma 6.0. That contest […]

15 January 2024
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Linux Mint 21.3 Officially Released, This is What’s New

Linux Mint 21.3 is now available to download — the first version to offer Wayland support in the Cinnamon desktop. Following a successful bout of bug-busting in last month’s beta release, Mint devs have gone […]

12 January 2024

This System Monitor Extension for GNOME Shell is EPIC

Yes, I know: I’m writing about yet another system monitor extension for GNOME Shell — I’m sorry; I’m not obsessed, I promise! But I couldn’t not cover this one since it was only released today […]

11 January 2024