Ubuntu 23.10 with GNOME 45 has replaced the top-left ‘Activities’ with a workspace indicator. By hovering over it, you can use mouse scroll to switch workspaces. This is done by a simple extension called “Workspace Scroll”. Like the volume icon, ...
Want to install the latest Linux Kernel 6.5? It’s there in your Ubuntu 22.04 system repository! Linux Kernel 6.5 was released a week ago with exciting new features, including initial USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 support, much faster parallel direct I/O ...
Wine, the popular software library to running Windows apps on Linux and macOS, announced a new development release one day ago. It’s Wine 8.15 that features TEXT print processor support, cycle collection support in MSHTML, and cross-process memory notifications in ...
In the recent update of Ubuntu 23.10 daily build, the GNOME desktop has been updated to v45 beta. And, here are some visual changes. The default wallpaper now has a dark variant. Meaning changing Ubuntu Desktop to dark style will ...
For those who are sticking to Firefox ESR, the latest 115 release is now easy to install in all current Ubuntu releases via PPA. Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) is a slow moving release series target for organizations, including schools, ...
Shared Folders feature does not work for your OS in VirtualBox Virtual Machine? Here’s a quick workaround to transfer files between host and VMs. VirtualBox has port forwarding feature that allows to access a service or an app running in ...
Transmission, Ubuntu’s default BitTorrent client, announced new 4.0.4 release with various bug-fixes. For users of Transmission 4.0.x, it’s recommended to update to the new release for stability improvements. For me, the last 4.0.3 crashes often when downloading Kali Linux image ...
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Kernel 6.5 this Sunday. He wrote: So nothing particularly odd or scary happened this last week, so thereis no excuse to delay the 6.5 release. I still have this nagging feeling that a lot ...
This simple tutorial shows how to compile and install the Sigil EPUB ebook editor (2.0.1 so far) from the source code in Ubuntu step by step. Sigil is a popular free and open-source ePub ebook editor that works in Windows, ...
For those who want to install the latest Linux Kernel (6.4.x so far), there’s a new apt repository made for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Debian 12 Bookworm. As you may know, Ubuntu has a mainline Kernel PPA that keeps ...
For those prefer the classic .deb package format, here’s a new PPA for installing the latest Handbrake video transcoder 1.6.1 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Compare to Handbrake 1.5 in the system repository, the new 1.6 release features AV1 video encoding ...
Got a Ubuntu PC or Server and want to use it as remote download server? This is the step by step guide shows you how to do the job using Transmission Daemon. Ubuntu’s default Transmission torrent client has a daemon ...
For Ubuntu 23.04, Debian 12, Fedora 38 and other Linux with GNOME 43/44, there’s now an extension allows to monitor and control your remote Transmission downloads via system tray indicator. It uses Transmission RPC protocol for interacting with remote PC/server ...
KeePassXC, the popular free open-source password manager, released version 2.7.6 today! This is a new maintenance release with bug-fixes and minor improvements. According to the release note, the release improve the drag’n’drop behavior. Just like drag’n’drop files in your OS, ...
Ubuntu 23.10 is going to introduce new enhanced tiling window support! Here’s how you can try it out in Ubuntu 22.04 & Ubuntu 20.04. For those who don’t know what is window tiling, it’s a window management behavior that snap ...