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Ubuntu 25.04 Yaru Theme Update Brings New Icons

With Ubuntu 25.04 feature freeze now in effect, the final bits of polish have begun to arrive in Plucky Puffin daily builds, including an all-important update to the distro’s default theme. Ubuntu’s Yaru theme is […]

14 March 2025

Ubuntu 25.04 Default Wallpaper & Mascot Unveiled

The default wallpaper for Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ has been unveiled. Each new Ubuntu release bears a bespoke desktop background and animal mascot, and the upcoming release of the Plucky Puffin proves no exception. Ubuntu […]

12 March 2025
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Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out

Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers, a modern GTK4/libadwaita fork1 of the former, in Ubuntu 25.04—today, the swap was made official. Papers is a fork of Evince […]

5 March 2025
Power Profiles Daemon

Power Profiles Daemon 0.30 Preps Support for Linux 6.14

A new version of the Power Profiles Daemon (PPD) was uploaded to the Plucky archives today, and should soon make its way out to Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds —but what’s changed? The power-profiles-daemon is what those […]

18 February 2025

Ubuntu to Fix a Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’ in its Icon Theme

Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t say I had either! But it turns out some of Yaru’s icons are […]

13 February 2025

What Do You Want to See From Ubuntu in 2025?

A new year has started, and who knows what kind of innovations and improvements it holds for for Ubuntu, which remains the world’s most used desktop Linux operating system. We get two new releases of […]

1 January 2025

Ubuntu 25.04 Daily Builds Are Now Available

A sure-fire way to tell that development is shifting gear: the first Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds are now available to download. Formal development on Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ began in October, and while it’s a […]

18 November 2024

Ubuntu 25.04 Set to Ship With New PDF Viewer

It could be all change for the PDF viewer in the next version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s long-time PDF viewer Evince (aka Document Viewer) is comes preinstalled in Ubuntu at present—I can’t recall using a version […]

13 November 2024
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GNOME 48 Release Schedule & Potential New Features

GNOME 47 ‘Denver’ proved a decent update to the GNOME desktop, delivering a hearty dose of new features, UI refinements, and app improvements. As those of you using Ubuntu 24.10 are no-doubt enjoying. But as […]

7 November 2024
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Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Major Build Change

Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 […]

30 October 2024
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Ubuntu 25.04 Codename is Revealed – And It’s Pretty Perfect

Ubuntu 24.10 may have only just been released, but development on the next version is getting underway and the codename for Ubuntu 25.04 revealed. Since codenames are alphabetical (as of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS; restarted at […]

16 October 2024