OBS Studio, the popular free open-source live streaming app, announced new major 30.1 release this Wednesday! The new release enabled HDR for HEVC over the RTMP protocol, AV1 HDR is not currently supported by YouTube. OBS Studio 30.1 reworked Image ...

For those who prefer the native .deb app packages, here’s new unofficial PPA for installing the most recent Kdenlive video editor 24.02.0 in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04. Kdenlive announced new 24.02 release series few days ago. One ...

This tutorial shows how to turn off your laptop’s built-in display for using external monitors in Ubuntu Desktop. When working with multiple monitors, it can be useful to disable the built-in screen for saving power. You can set lid close ...

Linus Torvalds announced Linux 6.8 stable as the latest Kernel series this Sunday. For Intel, the new kernel now includes the IAA (Intel Analytics Accelerators) crypto compression kernel driver, Qualcomm WCD939X USB subsystem Altmode Mux driver. It added support for ...

For Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with GNOME Desktop, there’s an extension to help you focus on reading on the screen. It’s Reading Strip, a free and open-source app written in JavaScript. With it, a horizontal (and/or vertical) strip ...

KeePassXC password manager announced the new 2.7.7 release this Sunday! Here are the new features and how to install instruction for Ubuntu. The new KeePassXC 2.7.7 features official support for Passkeys. It’s a type of login credential, that provides a ...

Kdenlive video editor released new 24.02.0 version this Monday! The new release now takes use of Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 for its user interface. The port gets overall experience and better Wayland support for Linux users. And, it now ...

After almost 2 years, Cozy audiobook player, finally announced new 1.3.0 release days ago. Cozy is a free open-source application for Linux, allows to listen to your DRM free mp3, m4b, m4a (aac, ALAC, …), flac, ogg and wav audio ...

HexChat, the popular free open-source IRC chat client, discontinued! HexChat is a IRC chat client forked from XChat. It’s a GTK app written in mostly C programming language. Features include customizable interface, Windows and Linux support, scripting support with Lua, ...

Zorin OS, the popular Ubuntu based Linux Distribution, announced v17.1 this Thursday! Like Linux Mint, Zorin OS is based on Ubuntu LTS. The latest 17.x release series is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but features GNOME 43 desktop with custom ...

For users who prefer native .deb package, LibreOffice 24.2 is finally available to install via Ubuntu PPA! LibreOffice is the default office suite for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and many other Linux. And, the latest so far is LibreOffice 24.2.x release ...

Pithos, the free open-source client for Pandora Radio, released new 1.6.2 version a few days ago. Pithos is a native app for Linux desktop, allowing to listen to free music through Pandora music streaming service. It’s much more lightweight than ...

After 3 alpha and 3 beta releases, Kodi media center 21, finally announced its first RC release this Thursday. Kodi 21 is the next major release that’s still in development. The release features upstream FFmpeg 6.0, adds support for NFSv4, ...

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 ...

This tutorial shows how to disable certain CPU cores in Ubuntu to save power and prevent your machine from overheating. There are a few tools to manage CPU frequency and save power in Linux today. They include power-profile-daemon (Gnome built-in ...