This tutorial shows how to enable hardware video acceleration (VA-API) for Firefox, so it uses the video card to decode/encode video to save power. Hardware video acceleration is a computer technology to make the graphics card to encode and decode ...
Debian 11, code-name ‘Bullseye’, officially released. Features 5-year support, Kernel 5.10 LTS, out-of-the-box support for exFAT file-system and most modern printers. Debian is free open-source community-supported Linux distribution started in 1993. It aims to be “The Universal Operating System” that ...
Wine, the free compatibility layer to run Windows apps on Linux, released v6.15 as the latest development version. According to the release note, Wine 6.15 comes with following changes: WinSock (WS2_32) library converted to PE. Support for performance data in ...
Mozilla Thunderbird email client released new major 91.0 version with many new features and improvements. Thunderbird 91.0 now runs in multi-process (e10s) mode by default, which offers many advantages in responsiveness, stability, performance, and security. For macOS users, the release ...
The official PPA for Shutter screenshot tool is back! So far contains packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 21.04. Shutter is one of the most popular screenshot tool for Linux. Other than basic screen capturing feature, it supports plugins, profiles, ...
Mozilla Firefox 91.0 is available with more than 1200 bug-fixes, new major privacy enhancement, and other features. The release introduced more comprehensive logic for clearing cookies. With Firefox Strict Mode, you can clear a site data including embed content, such ...
Want to cut a clip out of a video and share with your friends? Try Video Trimmer, a stupid easy way for those working on Linux. In Linux there are quite a few ways to cut clips or trim videos ...
Got Razer peripherals? Polychromatic released version 0.7.0 with redesigned UI and command line interface to control the RGB lighting in Linux. For those never heard of Polychromatic, it’s a free open-source vendor agnostic front-end for managing lighting, RGB effects and ...
Real-time strategy video game 0 A.D. released version Alpha 25 a day ago. Code name is “Yaunã”. 0 A.D. (pronounced “zero ey-dee”) is a free and open-source RTS game under development by Wildfire Games, that works on Windows, Linux, and ...
Latte Dock 0.10.0, the popular dock launcher for KDE Plasma, is available with exciting new features. The release introduced floating dock and panel feature. In “Edit Dock -> Appearance” settings you can move the slider of “Screen edge” under Margins, ...
Missing the old Ubuntu Unity style login screen? It’s easy to get it back in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and higher. LightDM, stands for Light Display Manager, is a free open-source project by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Ubuntu up ...
Ubuntu 21.10 daily build got an update for its gnome-control-center package(System Settings) recently. The ‘Standard’ mode is finally removed from the Appearance settings. The Yaru theme developer team submitted the request to remove the ‘Standard’ theme when in June, since ...
DeaDBeeF audio player 1.8.8 was released as the 8th bugfix release for the 1.8 series. The new release introduced some new features, including reading WAV RIFF tags, handling of Disc subtitle frames in ID3v2 and APE tags, and handling samplerates ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install and setup Gerbera home media server in all current Ubuntu and Debian releases. Gerbera is a free and open-source UPnP media server for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS. With it, you can stream ...
Want to get better performance when playing games in Linux? Try GameMode! GameMode is a free open-source Linux project allows games to request a set of optimizations be temporarily applied to the host and/or game process. The project was originally ...