Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 4 is Available to Download

The fourth monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) is out, the final before the Ubuntu 25.10 beta release in September. Fancy testing it?

28 August 2025

SuperTuxKart Evolution Promises ‘Fresh Experience’

Team disagreements saw progress on SuperTuxKart hit the buffers, but with new leadership and a revived vision, the iconic FOSS racer is getting back on track.

28 August 2025

New Apps Arrive in Ubuntu 25.10 Dev Builds

Ubuntu 25.10 daily builds now include the Ptyxis terminal and Loupe image viewer apps out-of-the-box, along with new sudo-rs, hwcrtl, and Ubuntu Insights tools.

27 August 2025
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Thunderbird 142 Lets You Add Signatures to PDFs In-App

Thunderbird 142 release is here with message linking, PDF signatures, Fastmail calendar fixes, and some new-found respect for system Do Not Disturb modes!

27 August 2025

Bazaar is a Slick New Desktop Flathub Frontend

Bazaar is a new multi-threaded Flatpak app for installing other Flatpak apps. It can handle multiple operations, curated apps, and integrated desktop search.

26 August 2025

Parallels Desktop 26 Update Improves Ubuntu VMs on macOS

Parallels Desktop 26 adds macOS Tahoe support, Windows 11 25H2 compatibility, and expanded Linux VM options for both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

26 August 2025
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Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be?

Zen Browser is a Firefox fork that rethinks modern web browsing with vertical tabs, split views, and a clean way to open new tabs — all without AI gimmicks.

25 August 2025
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Firefox Web App Support Available to Test (on Windows, At Least)

Firefox web app support is on the way, and a recent stable build gives users on Windows an early chance to test it out for running websites as windowed apps.

24 August 2025
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FFmpeg’s ‘Largest Release’ Yet Brings Vulkan Video Processing

FFmpeg 8.0 introduces Vulkan compute-based codecs for pro-grade video formats, new decoders, Whisper AI transcription, and other assorted improvements.

24 August 2025
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Aviator is a Fast, User-Friendly App for AV1 Video Encoding on Linux

Aviator is a user-friendly GTK4 AV1 encoder for Linux that makes it easy to convert convert videos to AV1. Smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss.

23 August 2025

High Tide (Linux Tidal Client) Adds Gapless Playback, Replay Gain

A more responsive Tidal experience with gapless playback is on offer in the latest update of High Tide, a GTK4/libadwaita Tidal client for Linux.

22 August 2025

Kdenlive 25.08 Enhances Audio Mixer, Adds 10-bit H.265 Support

Kdenlive 25.08 brings improved audio mixing, enhanced Titler, 10-bit H.265 encoding for NVIDIA GPUs, and plenty of bug fixes to this FOSS video editor.

21 August 2025