Linux Kernel 5.5 was announced two days ago. Linus Torvalds wrote on lkml.org: “So this last week was pretty quiet, and while we had a late network update with some (mainly iwl wireless) network driver and netfilter module loading fixes, ...

MPV media player released version 0.32.0 today with some new features and various bug-fixes. MPV 0.32.0 features RAR5 support and initial implementation of bash completion. Other changes include: add support for forcing the dedicated GPU for rendering add pinch to ...

Open Surge, a fun 2D retro platformer inspired by Sonic games, available to install in Ubuntu Software easily via Snap package. Open Surge is also a game creation system that lets you unleash your creativity! It’s free, open-source, and written ...

Music notation software MuseScore 3.4 was released a day ago with new features, UX improvements, and dozens of bug fixes. MuseScore 3.4 release highlights: Single click to apply palette elements if there is a selection in the score Allow dragging ...

Kid3 audio tag editor released version 3.8.2 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. Kid3 3.8.2 is a small but important release for those who have a lot of M4A ...

Wine 5.0 stable was released 2 days ago with a large number of improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10 (fix dependenices). “Wine 5.0 is dedicated to the memory of Józef Kucia, who passed away in ...

KeePass 2.44 was released a days ago as the latest stable mono password manager. Users of any previous 2.x version are recommended to upgrade. KeePass Password Safe was a Windows only password manager. Through the use of Mono, KeePass 2.x ...

KeePassXC password manager 2.5.3 was released today with stability improvements and new feature: browser extension for Chromium-based Edge browser. KeePassXC 2.5.3 changelog: Fix possible database lockout when removing a YubiKey from a KDBX 3.1 database Fix crash if Auto-Type is ...

This simple tutorial shows how to install VokoscreenNG, Vokoscreen rewritten from scratch, in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10. While the old Vokoscreen 2.5 with ffmpeg will not receive further updates, the open-source screencaster for Linux and Windows now has a new ...

This simple tutorial shows how to remove the focused window’s top bar app menu in Ubuntu 18.04 and (or) Ubuntu 19.10. Gnome desktop by default has an application menu on top bar, next to “Activities”, for the focused application window. ...

VokoscreenNG, open-source screen recording software formerly called Vokoscreen, released its first stable version days ago. Vokoscreen 2.5 is the last version with ffmpeg and will not more continue developed. The new VokoscreenNG, which is based of Qt and GStreamer, has ...

The first maintenance release for Oracle Virtualbox 6.1 series was released one day ago. Virtualbox 6.1.2 added kernel 5.5 support in Linux hosts (guest additions not yet), and improved resize and multi-monitor handling for Linux guests using VMSVGA. Other changes ...

The open-source LaTeX text editor TeXstudio 2.12.20 was released today as a new bug-fix release for the 2.12 series. Most notably changes in TeXstudio 2.12.20 include fix bug when replacing highlighted search results, and add text{} to amsmath.cwl. How to ...

Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird GTK twitter client that continues to work with Twitter on Linux. Corebird became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API. Cawbird takes up the job to work with the new APIs and includes ...

For Ubuntu 19.10 with NVIDIA proprietary driver installed, enabling user automatic login may cause infinite login loop. This is a known gdm3 bug. Thanks to Martin, a workaround is to remove “splash” from the linux cmdline in Grub options. 1.) ...