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The Beta release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is now available to download, and/or upgrade from an old Ubuntu edition. Ubuntu 20.04 is a Long Term Support release with 5-year support. It’s scheduled to be officially released on April 23rd. The ...

QQ for Linux, the popular instant messaging apps developed by Tencent, released the second Beta on April Fools’ Day. The development of QQ on Linux is quite slow. It has been 5 months since the last release. QQ for Linux ...

Fre:ac audio converter 1.1 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. Fre:ac 1.1 is a new major release with tons of new features. Highlights include: Official Linux, Mac OS, and 64-bit ...

Free-software planetarium Stellarium 0.20.0 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Stellarium 0.20.0 brings GUI refactoring and updating, code refactoring (related to Solar system), and many improvements in ...

Linux Kernel 5.6 was officially released. Linus Torvalds announced: So I’ll admit to vacillating between doing this 5.6 release and doing another -rc. This has a bit more changes than I’d like, but they are mostly from davem’s networking fixes ...

Oracle Java 14 was released more than a week ago. For those want to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 18.x, 19.x, and their derivatives, an installer script is available in PPA. For ...

Open-source painting software Krita 4.2.9 was released as the latest stable version a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Krita 4.2.9 is “really stable after all the testing it had during ...

qBittorrent torrent client 4.2.2 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and Ubuntu 19.10. qBittorrent 4.2.2 comes with new features, web UI improvements, and various bug-fixes. And python2 support is removed ...

Code::Blocks, open-source C, C++, and Fortran IDE, released version 20.03 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and derivatives. Code::Blocks 20.03 was available for a few days, though it’s not officially ...

MythTV, open source software digital video recorder (DVR), released new stable version 31 a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10. MythTV 31 comes with significant changes to video decoding and playback, python3 support, greatly ...

Looking for a wireless network manager? Wavemon is a command line ncurses-based wireless network monitoring application for Linux. Wavemon displays live signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It should work ...

Audacious audio player 4.0 was finally announced as the new stable release. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Audacious 4.0 switches to Qt 5 UI by default, though GTK2 is still ...

RetroArch, free and open-source front-end for emulators, game engines, released version 1.8.5 one day ago as the latest stable version. RetroArch 1.8.5 brings Cheevos improvements, including support for extended Sega CD memory, queue multiple popups, prevent buffer overflow when encountering ...

DeaDBeeF music player 1.8.3 was released a day ago as the third bugfix update for 1.8 series. The new release fixed CD Text reading issue, added more title formatting functions & value, added option to start deadbeef hidden / minimized ...

The latest version of SameBoy, powerful Game Boy Emulator, available to install via Snap package in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. SameBoy is an open-source user friendly Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy emulator for macOS, Windows and ...