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Ubuntu 24.10: The Best New Features

Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ was released on October 10, 2024 and, as you’d expect for an update following an LTS, it’s overflowing with an array of new features. As a short-term release Ubuntu 24.10 only […]

18 September 2024

Void Text Editor: Open-Source Alternative to Cursor

VS Code is to modern text editors what Chromium is to browsers: a fork magnet. A slew of niche spins have emerged, each putting their own spin on Microsoft’s massively popular original. The latest to […]

18 September 2024

Ubuntu 24.10 Fixes PWA Issue in Chromium Snap

Using the Chromium snap app? If you are, and you use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) or install websites as ‘apps’ there’s a bug fix coming that should improve their behaviour on Ubuntu. When you install […]

17 September 2024
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Linux Kernel 6.11 Released, This is What’s New

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 6.11, which is the kernel version Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS will offer. Fittingly, this update arrives a few days before the Linux Kernel Maintainer […]

15 September 2024

Raspberry Pi Imager Gets Qt 6 Port, Now Offers AppImages on Linux

You don’t need to own a Raspberry Pi to make use of the Raspberry Pi Imager. This nifty image writer makes flashing ISO, IMG, and similar files to USB drives and SD cards mighty easy. […]

13 September 2024
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Ubuntu 24.10 Fixes a Pesky File Picker Paper-Cut

There’s a clutch of new features in Ubuntu 24.10, but plenty of smaller, less obvious fixes for “paper cuts” – a decades-long issue with thumbnails in the GTK file picker among them. Feeling deja-vu? GNOME […]

13 September 2024

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Released with Linux Kernel 6.8

The fifth and final point release to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now available to download. This update was due to be released a couple of weeks ago but was delayed by a delay in getting […]

12 September 2024

Tiling Shell Adds Option to Show Border Around Focused Window

All keybindings accessible from one place

12 September 2024

Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme

The Cinnamon desktop environment looks pretty nice on Linux Mint, but if you install it on other distributions it doesn’t look as good — but that’s about to change. In his latest monthly mail-shot, distro […]

12 September 2024

Parallels 20 for Mac Released with Ubuntu 24.04 VM Support

Parallels Desktop 20 has been released for macOS. The virtualisation software introduces a number of buffs for Linux VMs running on macOS. The headline change in Parallels Desktop 20 is support for macOS Sequoia, both […]

11 September 2024

VirtualBox 7.1: Qt 6 UI, Wayland Clipboard, New Icon + More

VirtualBox 7.1 is now available to download for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Those upgrading from VirtualBox 7.0 or earlier will find a sizeable set of changes on offer, among them what Oracle describe as a […]

11 September 2024

Ubuntu Prompting Client is Here to Make Snap Apps Safer

Prompting Client is the latest security effort for snap software, and acts as a companion to the new desktop Security Center app. As you may have read in my article last week, Prompting Client is […]

11 September 2024