Linux Mint announced new 21.3 release, code-name “Virginia”, this Friday. It’s the 3rd update for the Mint 21 release series, which is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and uses Kernel 5.15 LTS. The new Linux Mint 21.3 features Cinnamon Desktop ...
This tutorial shows how to turn off CPU turbo boost, and/or set constant maximum (or minimum) CPU speed in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 24.04. Disable turbo boost will limit your CPU speed to prevent running over the base frequency. It’s ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install Nicotine plus, the graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network, in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04. Soulseek is an ad-free, spyware free, and plain free file sharing network, make it easy for you to ...
Kodi, formerly XBMC media center, released version 20.3 this Wednesday! According to the announcements, this is the last release of the 20.x “Nexus” series. While Kodi 21 “Omega” now is in Beta 2 stage. The release mainly includes bug-fixes and ...
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install VS-Codium IDE in Ubuntu, using 4 different ways. VSCodium is a free and open-source software binaries of VS Code. It’s NOT a fork, but a community-driven, freely-licensed binary ...
Linux Kernel 6.7 is finally released! Linus Torvalds announced the release on Sunday night: So we had a little bit more going on last week compared to the holiday week before that, but certainly not enough to make me think ...
For Chromium user, the popular web browser is finally to allow VA-API hardware decoding for video playback in Linux Wayland. Chromium so far does NOT officially support VA-API Video Acceleration API on Linux. However, there are experimental flags to enable ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest version of libheif library, for better HEIF and AVIF image formats support, in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Libheif is a popular free open-source library for encoding and decoding HEIF ...
Folicate, the modern ebook reader, released version 3.1.0 with new features support. It’s a free open-source reader written in JavaScript, and uses GTK4 plus LibAdwaita for its modern user interface, that works in most Linux Desktop and mobile devices such ...
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install Telegram instant messaging app in Ubuntu 22.04 & Ubuntu 24.04. The popular Telegram Messenger is available in most platforms. For Linux, it available as official tarball, universal Flatpak ...
Lossless Cut, the popular free open-source video cutting/trimming tool, updated recently with full-screen support. There are a few tools to cut out a fragment of a video in Linux, besides using heavy video editor application (e.g., Kdenlive and OpenShot). They ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install and setup SABnzbd, Usenet download tool, in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04. SABnzbd is a free open-source program to download binary files from Usenet servers. Many people upload all sorts of interesting material ...
For Ubuntu 22.04/23.10, Fedora & other Linux with Wayland, Shutter screenshot tool can finally take screenshots for selected area and app windows! Shutter is (or was) an excellent feature rich screenshot tool, with image editing and uploading support. It was ...
Scribus, the popular free open-source desktop publishing software, announced the new stable 1.6.0 release series on the first day of 2024! It’s been more than 4 years since the last stable 1.4.8, while 1.5.x release series is available as development ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install the most recent xxHash for faster hash checking in Ubuntu Linux. xxHash is extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, working at RAM speed limit. It can be useful to check integrity for large amounts ...