FFmpeg multi-media library updated to version 6.1, code-name “Heaviside”, few days ago! According to the FFmpeg release page, the new 6.1 release features new libaribcaption decoder, RivaTuner video decoder, Playdate video decoder and demuxer, vMix video decoder, OSQ demuxer and ...

For those who want to install the most recent Kernel 6.6 with new hardware support or compatibility fixes, it’s now available in the zabbly repository for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Debian 12. Linux 6.6 was released few weeks ago ...

Hugin, the free open-source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging software, finally released the new stable 2023 release! Changes in the new release include: PTBatcherGUI can now also queue user defined assistant and user defined output sequences. PTBatcherGUI: Added option ...

GIMP image editor announced a new stable release for the 2.10 series one days ago. Here’s how you can install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. First of all, GIMP 2.10.36 includes a few security fixes. So, ...

Audacity audio editor announced the first point release for the Audacity 3.4.0 feature release today! The release can now built again in ARM devices and BSD. And, it has various stability and other fixes that 3.4.0 users are urged to ...

Tilix terminal emulator released version 1.9.6 few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator, which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget for various features, such as ...

GNU Octave released version 8.4.0 this Sunday. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 23.10 via PPA. GNU Octave, a high-level interpreted language for numerical computations, release new 8.4.0 few days ago. The release came ...

Bleachbit, the popular system cleaner app, announced new major 4.6.0 release this Sunday! It’s been almost 2 years since the last stable v4.4.2. While, version 4.5.x is there for beta testing purpose. Compare to the latest stable release, the new ...

Have multiple monitors connected to your Ubuntu 22.04 machine? There’s now an indicator to dim all or individual monitor screen brightness with sliders. You can dim external monitor brightness with either physical buttons or ddcutil utility. However, an indicator applet ...

Audacity audio editor and recording tool announced the new major 3.4.0 release after almost 2 weeks of beta testing. The new release features Beats and measures grid, allows to easily align audio clips to the musical tempo and rhythm. It ...

For users of Krita 5.2, the first point release of this major release was out few days ago. The Krita 5.2.1 release includes over 50 bug-fixes, so everyone is encouraged to update! The official announcement didn’t mention any detailed changes ...

NVIDIA announced 545.29.02 graphics driver for Linux yesterday, as a new release series for its New Feature Branch Version. For Ubuntu 22.04 + and Fedora Workstation with default GNOME on Wayland, as well as KDE on Wayland, the new driver ...

Linux Torvalds announced the release of Kernel 6.6 this Monday. It’s the latest mainline kernel so far, that features EEVDF scheduler, and per-policy CPUFreq performance boost control. For Intel, the new kernel added Intel Shadow Stack support to prevent ROP ...

This simple tutorial shows how to display live earth as desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.10. Ubuntu has Wallch wallpaper changer in system repository, which has option to show live earth as wallpaper. However, the app is no ...

For Linux desktop user who want to access German-language public broadcasting live streams and archives, this can do the job for you. It’s televido (“Television” in Esperanto), a free and open-source tool, allowing to livestream, search, play and download media ...