Linux Mint Will Hide Unverified Flatpaks in Software Manager

The Software Manager app in Linux Mint 22 will deliver faster start-up times and introduce a significant security safeguard for search results. As you may know (and if you don’t, what’s living on Mars like? […]

3 June 2024
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New App Makes Converting Text Documents on Ubuntu Easier

There are many ways to convert documents on Ubuntu, but few are as quick or as easy to use as Morphosis. Morphosis is a new desktop app written in Python and GTK4/libadwaita, powered by Pandoc, […]

2 June 2024

Microsoft Announce WSL Updates, Including New Settings App

Those using Ubuntu on Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) may be interested to know that ‘significant updates’ are on the way. In a blog post to recap things discussed as the recent […]

30 May 2024

IBM’s Iconic Model-M Keyboard Reimagined by 8BitDo

Few computer keyboards are as iconic, as influential, or as beige as the IBM Model-M — no surprise then that it’s been given a modern reimagining by 8BitDo. Following on from their Nintendo NES and […]

29 May 2024
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Mozilla Firefox 126.0.1 Fixes Drag and Drop Quirk on Linux

This month’s Firefox 126 release brought with it a modest set of improvements for Linux users — as well as an annoying bug which temporarily breaks drag and drop actions in the browser. And that […]

28 May 2024

Ubuntu 24.04 Arrives on Mars – the Milk-V Mars (RISC-V Computer)

Ubuntu 24.04 is now available for the Milk-V Mars RISC-V single board computer (SBC). RISC-V is an open-source processor specification, allowing anyone to access its design to create their own chips without paying licensing fees or […]

28 May 2024

Track Time Differently with ‘Day Progress’ for GNOME Shell

Day Progress is a new GNOME Shell extension that does something appreciably simple: display a progress bar in the top panel to convey how much of the day has passed. “A clock does that?”, you […]

27 May 2024

Microsoft Gives its Open-Source Developer Font Major Update

Cascadia Code is an open-source monospaced font created by Microsoft, first released in 2020. It’s used as the default font in the official Windows Terminal app. Similar to Intel’s One Mono, JetBrains’ Mono and IBM’s […]

26 May 2024
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Rufus Fixes Creation of Persistent Ubuntu 24.04 USBs

Rufus, a popular open-source tool for making bootable USB drives on Windows, just released an update that includes a ‘fix’ for working with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ISOs. A truly versatile tool, Rufus is able to […]

24 May 2024
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Snap Store Website Redesign Goes Live – And It Looks Good

Stop by the Snap Store website today you’ll see it’s undergone a revamp – the second design rejig to the online storefront in the past 12 months but more substantive than the first. The search […]

23 May 2024

Upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04 from 23.10 Now Enabled

It’s now possible to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from Ubuntu 23.10 officially, using the standard GUI updater – no command-line developer flag required. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released on April 25 but distro devs delayed […]

22 May 2024
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Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox

Wondering what sort of nifty new features the Firefox web browser will get in future updates? Well, wonder no more as Mozilla has shared a roadmap outlining its near-term priorities on new features, performance, compatibility, […]

22 May 2024