Deepin, a beautiful Linux distribution based on Debian stable, released version 20.2 a day ago. Deepin 20.2 features the LTS Kernel 5.10 and stable Kernel 5.11. In Grub boot menu, you can select to boot either Kernel as you want. ...
LibreOffice office suite 7.1.2, the second bug-fix release for the 7.1 series, now is available to install in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20, Ubuntu 20.10 via its official PPA. LibreOffice 7.1.2 comes with 61 bug-fixes. Here are some ...
Before the next major GIMP 3.0, a new maintenance update for the 2.10 series GIMP 2.10.24 now is available to install. Though it’s not officially announced at the moment of writing, GIMP has provided the 2.10.24 source tarball & Windows ...
The free and open-source planetarium software Stellarium 0.21.0 was released today. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA. The new release completed the work on accurate planet axes, including Lunar libration. ...
GNU Emacs text editor 27.2 was released as a new maintenance release. Emacs 27.2 is a bug-fix release with no new features. According to the changelog, it changed the behavior of the user option ‘resize-mini-frames‘. If set to a non-nil ...
Want to automatically set the background & lock screen wallpaper once per day to Microsoft Bing image of the day? It’s easy to do this in Ubuntu via an Extension. For Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and all other ...
The free and open-source BitTorrent client qBittorrent 4.3.4 was released. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10 via PPA. qBittorrent 4.3.4 reworked the sorting logic. To get the old sorting order for the “queue number” column, first ...
The Audacity audio editor 3.0.0 was released a week ago as the new major release. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu / Linux Mint via Flatpak package. Audacity 3.0.0 features new all-in-one-file aup3 project file format, improved ‘Noise Gate’ ...
Mozilla Firefox 87.0 was released today with further efforts on improving user privacy. Firefox 87 introduced SmartBlock, a new intelligent tracker blocking mechanism for Private Browsing and Strict Tracking Protection Mode. By providing local stand-ins for blocked third-party tracking scripts, ...
Want to install the ClipGrab YouTube video downloader via classic deb package? Here’s a PPA available for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and Linux Mint 20. ClipGrab is a free and open-source downloading and converting application for YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and ...
Kid3 audio tag editor 3.8.6 was released a few days ago with new features and important bug-fixes. PPA has updated for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 20.10. Kid3 3.8.6 adds support for building with Qt 6. And it now ...
The Vivaldi web browser 3.7 was released a few days ago. Features performance improvements and Apple M1 machines support. Vivaldi 3.7 gets a series speed boost. By testing on Ubuntu 18.04 PC with 2 GHz Intel Core i3 CPU and ...
The Audacity audio editor 3.0.0 was release as a new major update a day ago. Audacity 3.0.0 features .aup3 project format. The audio project was previously saved as large number of small data files, with an ‘.aup’ file to coordinate ...
Oracle Java 16 was announced as a short release with 6-month support. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10 via PPA. New features in the release include: Vector API (Incubator) Enable ...
In the default Gnome desktop whenever an app window is focused, a menu button with the app name and icon will be displayed on the top bar next to Activities. It used to have an option to disable the feature ...