GIMP image editor released new development version 2.99.8 for the next 3.0 series with some great new features. GIMP 2.99.8 introduced multiple layers support for its Clone, Heal and Perspective Clone tools. There are as well 2 new modes in ...
This simple tutorial shows how to remove the trash icon from the dock in Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri. Different to the previous releases, Ubuntu 21.10 puts the trash icon on left dock instead of the desktop. However, I don’t use ...
The “Software Updater” utility in Ubuntu MATE 21.10 tries to remove native Firefox package and install the SNAP version instead. If you’ve done that, here’s how to revert to Firefox DEB package and prevent the misbehavior. As you may know, ...
Everyone needs to tweak the default desktop environment before getting ready to work! And here are the top 10 things that I’ve done after installing Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri. 1. Install Media Codec: If you didn’t enable ‘Install third-party software ...
Ubuntu 21.10 officially released! Here’s what’s new and how to upgrade from the previous Ubuntu 21.04. Ubuntu 21.10, codenamed “Impish Indri”, is the new short-term release with 9 months support. It features Linux Kernel 5.13 with new hardware support. And ...
To verify downloaded packages, we do hash checks. And Hashbrown is a simple graphical tool to generate or verify file hash in Linux Desktop. Software developers often provide cryptographic hashes along with downloads, for users to ensure the file or ...
Using Flatpak apps in Linux? You may found that Flatpak app appearance does not change when toggling light & dark mode or switching to another app theme. As more and more apps publish Linux packages via Flatpak, I have a ...
After installed the new Ubuntu 21.10, one of the top things to do is tweaking the left dock panel. Via “System Settings -> Appearance”, you may change the panel position to bottom, adjust icon size, and enable auto-hide. However, the ...
For those having Ubuntu or other Linux server (e.g., Debian, CentOS and Fedora) remotely, here’s how to login without password using SSH key authentication. Compare to user password login, SSH key authentication is more secure because only the person who ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest version of Kodi media center in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, and their based systems, e.g., Linux Mint 20, Elementary OS 6 and Zorin OS 16. Kodi, formerly XBMC, is ...
This simple tutorial shows how to compile and install Python 3.10.0 or other certain Python version in Ubuntu. For Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, there’s well trusted “deadsnakes” team PPA that maintains all the Python packages. For non-LTS releases, ...
This tutorial shows all the ways to install the 3D creation software Blender in Ubuntu, including Snap, Flatpak, native Deb packages, and compile from source tarball. Blender is a free open-source software for creating animated films, visual effects, computer games. ...
After several alpha, beta and rc tests, the Python programming language finally released version 3.10 today! Python 3.10 will receive bug-fix updates in next 18 months. After that, it’s supported with 5-year security updates until October 2026. What’s New in ...
Mozilla Firefox 93.0 was officially released today. The release features AVIF image support and further security improvements. The AV1 image format (AVIF) is an image file format for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF file ...
The graphical auto shutdown app KShutdown released version 5.90 with feature to reboot from Linux into another OS automatically. KShutdown is a free open-source app that provides a simple Qt based user interface. It allows users to automatically shutdown, restart, ...