Ubuntu 26.04 Replaces System Monitor and Totem with New Apps

Ubuntu developers confirm plans to ship 2 new apps in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, replacing its video and system monitor apps with a pair it feels are more 'modern'.

27 November 2025
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KDE Plasma is Going Wayland-Only, Dropping X11 Support

Future versions of KDE Plasma will no longer support the Xorg/X11 display server, as developers set-out the timeline for a transition to a Wayland-only future.

26 November 2025
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Google Releases its New Google Sans Flex Font as Open Source

A font's a font – unless you're into typography! Google Sans Flex font is a new open source font made for screens. It looks great set as Ubuntu's system font.

24 November 2025

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 Released with New Design

Raspberry Pi Image 2.0 goes stable with a major redesign, user flow and new features. Details on what's changed, what it can do and where to get it - inside!

24 November 2025
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Ubuntu Upstreams Patches to Bring Flutter Apps to RISC-V

Canonical's engineers have submitted pull requests to add RISC-V support to Google's Flutter toolkit, which Ubuntu uses to built many of its desktop apps.

23 November 2025

Raspberry Pi 500+ Works as Standalone Keyboard (Well, Kinda)

Can the Raspberry Pi 500+ work as a standalone Bluetooth keyboard? Yes, using the open-source btferret project – but not without limitations, as I report.

21 November 2025
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Use AirPods Pro Features on Linux with LibrePods

LibrePods brings AirPods Pro features to Linux desktops, including active noise cancellation, transparency mode, ear detection and accurate battery levels.

20 November 2025
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TABS API is Mozilla’s Latest Bet on the Agentic Web

Mozilla's new TABS API helps developers build AI agents to automate web tasks, as the company continues to bet on AI as its future. Details, pricing, and links inside.

19 November 2025

Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked

The Xubuntu team has shared an incident report on its October website breach. Attackers brute-forced the site to inject malware - but was anything else affected?

18 November 2025
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GIMP 3.2 Hits Release Candidate with Improved Text Editing + More

Paintbrushes at the ready, as the first GIMP 3.2 release candidate is available for testing. New features and a flurry of fixes are on offer — more details inside!

18 November 2025

Monitor Your Linux Laptop Battery Health with Wattage

Wattage is a modern GTK4/libadwaita app that detailed battery information on Linux, including capacity, health, cycles, and power draw – no terminal required.

16 November 2025
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Thunderbird 145 Brings Microsoft Exchange Support + More

Thunderbird 145 has been released with support for Microsoft Exchange e-mail accounts, DNS over HTTPS, renamed Junk folder and other improvements.

14 November 2025