GNOME 46, the default desktop for Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40, will finally have the option to enable Variable Refresh Rate. Variable Refresh Rate, VRR in short, is a feature for TV, monitor, and other displays, allowing to adjust refresh ...

Ubuntu has a few offline games out-of-the-box. Now, the developer team is going to remove them from the installer in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Since Ubuntu 23.10, Ubuntu Desktop no longer provides ‘Minimal installation‘ option in the installer. Instead, it’s “re-named” ...

Visual Studio Code announced version 1.87 as the new February 2024 release! The release features voice dictation support in editor. With VS Code Speech extension installed, user can use voice to dictate directly into the editor. It can be started ...

SDDM, the Simple Desktop Display Manager, announced new 0.21.0 released a few hours ago. It’s a free open-source display manager, aka login manager, for the graphical interface of Linux login screen. While, GNOME (Ubuntu/Fedora) uses GDM as default, and MATE/Cinnamon ...

Kid3, the free open-source Qt based audio tag editor, release new 3.9.5 version on Saturday. The release brings keyboard shortcut support for its built-in player. Meaning user can specify custom shortcuts to control play/pause, stop playback, next/previous track playback actions. ...

NVIDIA announced the first stable release for 550 series Linux driver this Friday. It’s NVIDIA Driver 550.54.14 released as latest production branch version. The release brings better support for Wayland, the more security touchscreen and HiDPI friendly display server, that’s ...

Wine, the free open-source software for running Windows apps on Linux, macOS, & BSD, announced a new development 9.3 release this Friday. The new Wine 9.3 improved proxy configuration reading and writing by using new option to query global proxy ...

The Ubuntu team announced the 4th point release of Ubuntu 22.04 this Thursday! The new release comes with a new arm64+largemem ISO for ARM servers. The iso includes a kernel with 64k page size, which is typically used for machine ...

GIMP image editor announced the new 2.99.18 development release today. It’s marked as the last dev release for the next major 3.0 version. The new release has a new welcome dialog, with Personalize tab to set your favorite theme, icon ...

For those who are interested in the development of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the developer team has opened a channel for the desktop installer usability test. Anyone can try out the desktop installer by simply visiting a page in web browser. ...

Free and open source DJ software, Mixxx, finally released the new major 2.4 version few days ago. The new release added support for exporting crates, playlists and the library to Engine DJ OS devices, including Denon and Numark standalone controllers. ...

gThumb image viewer and organizer released new 3.12.5 release this Sunday. It is a small release only contains translation updates and a few bug-fixes. Bug fixes in the release include: When the ‘Store metadata inside files if possible’ option is active, ...

Mozilla Firefox web browser version 123.0 now is available to download! In the new monthly release, Firefox View page now have “Search” function, allows to search a page from each tab of recent browsing, recent closed tabs, open tabs, tab from ...

GNOME 46, the default desktop environment for next Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40, now is in Beta stage. It’s now the best time for developers to test their applications and shell extensions. Gnome 46 features explicit Global Search for the ...

Drawpile, free open-source collaborative drawing program, announced new 2.2.1 release yesterday! This is the first update for the 2.2 release series that comes with numerous bug-fixes, as well as some new features. The server now implements WebSocket support, which is ...