This simple tutorial shows how to do stress test on your CPU in Ubuntu or Debian Linux, either Desktop or Server. Got a new CPU /CPU cooler, or changed your computer environment? You can perform a stress test to find ...

BleachBit, the popular free open-source system cleaner application, updates recently with many new features. It’s BleachBit 4.5.1, the beta development release series for the next major 4.6 version. The new release adds new applications support, including cleaning caches for GIMP, ...

Ubuntu 24.04, is in development now! Here’s when it will be released! Ubuntu 24.04, code-name ‘Noble Numbat’, will be a new LTS release with 5 years support and another 5 years extend (ESM) support. It will probably features GNOME Desktop ...

This is a quick tutorial shows you how to quickly access the source of all your installed GNOME extensions in Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, Debian and other Linux with GNOME. Gnome extensions are usually installed to “.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/” directory. While, system built-in ...

Audacity audio editor released the Beta version of the next 3.4.0. Here’s how to try it out in Ubuntu. According to the project release page, the new release now features several music related features, such as switching between hh:mm:ss time ...

Firefox web browser announced the release of 119.0 this Tuesday. The new release improved PDF editing, by allowing to add images and alt text, in addition to text and drawings. “Firefox View” icon has been replaced with a folder icon ...

qBittorrent, the popular Qt-based BitTorrent client, released version 4.6.0 this Sunday! The new release introduced experimental support for I2P, a peer to peer fully encrypted private network layer, allowing to transfer data in a more secure way. The ‘Preferences’ dialog ...

This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows Ubuntu Desktop users how to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10 from either Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.04. Ubuntu 23.10, code-name, Mantic Minotaur, was released a week ago. It features Kernel 6.5, GNOME ...

OnlyOffice announced the new 7.5.0 release for its desktop editors office suite few days ago. Like online version, the desktop app can now open PDF files and do basic editing operations, such as text annotating, form filling, commenting and drawing. ...

Geany, the small and fast IDE, released version 2.0 hours ago! Here are the new features as well as how to install guide for Ubuntu users. Changes in Geany 2.0 according to the official release note: Split “session data” into ...

For KDE users on Ubuntu 22.04, meaning KUbuntu 22.04, Ubuntu Studio 22.04, etc, the latest Plasma Desktop 5.27 (5.27.8) now is available to upgrade through PPA. KDE Plasma Desktop 5.27 was originally released in February. After more than 8 months ...

In Ubuntu 23.10, there’s no longer “Software Install” option for opening/installing .deb files in your Downloads folder. This is probably due to switch to the new ‘App Center’, that some features are not fully implemented. When you double-clicking a .deb ...

The Desktop .iso image of Ubuntu 23.10 is finally available to download after a few days of delay! Ubuntu 23.10, code-name Mantic Minotaur, was released on October 12. However, due to a malicious translation incident, the .iso image for the ...

This simple tutorial shows how to install Zoom video communication client in Ubuntu 23.10, and fix unmet dependencies issue. Zoom provides official .deb package for Ubuntu, however it’s built against old Mesa libraries that have been removed from Ubuntu 23.10 ...

For VLC users who prefer installing the player via the classic .deb, here’s Ubuntu PPA update for the latest VLC 3.0.19. The VideoLAN website does NOT announced the release of v3.0.19 at the moment of writing. However, the source code ...