Since Ubuntu 20.04, it shows your computer manufacturer logo on startup. It’s however easy to remove it, as well display the blank and white boot text message. The Grub boot-loader offers option to toggle the settings in its configuration file. ...
Missing the old Dukto file transfer tool? The tool now is ported to Qt5 and easy to install via an Ubuntu PPA. For those never heard about Dukto, it’s a free open-source file transfer tool for LAN (Local Network) use. ...
Mozilla Firefox released version 90.0 today with some new features and various security fixes. Firefox 90 introduced the 2.0 version of SmartBlock. The built-in tracker blocking mechanism now provides robust privacy protection, while ensuring you can still use third-party Facebook ...
Want to remap your keyboard or gamepad keys in Ubuntu Linux? It’s easy to do this via Key Mapper. Key Mapper is a free and open-source tool written in Python 3. With it, you can change the mapping for input ...
For dark mode fans, you may found the color scheme in Gedit Text Editor is not so good! Focused line is not even readable due to the light text on light line background. There’s already an upstream fix, though it’s ...
For laptop users, the built-in touchpad can do more magic by enabling multi-touch gestures. And libinput-gestures is a popular solution besides touchegg. Libinput-gestures is a free open-source utility that reads libinput gestures from your touchpad and maps them to user ...
Linux Mint team announced the second point release for Mint 20 today. Features Kernel 5.4, Ubuntu 20.04 package base, and Cinnamon 5.0, Xfce 4.16, MATE 1.24 for each desktop edition. Linux Mint 20.2 will be supported until 2025. It comes ...
Linux Mint introduced a new batch file renamer app ‘Bulky’ in the upcoming 20.2 release. Here’s how you can install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04. Bulky is a simple and elegant tool for renaming multiple files and ...
Batch image converting and scaling app Converseen released version 0.9.9.1, features JFIF file format support. Converseen is a free open-source tool based on Qt5 framework. It provides a lightweight and easy to use interface to convert single or multiple photo ...
For command line users want to search on DuckDuckGo, ddgr is the free open-source tool to search from Linux terminal. It’s a tiny tool written mostly in Python3. And it’s quite easy to use. For instance, run the command below ...
Darktable, open-source raw photo development tool, released version 3.6.0 today with exciting new features! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA. No version 3.5.x, Darktable goes directly to 3.6 release series. It introduced new “Import” module for easy ...
Want to automatically power off Ubuntu after given time? Here’s an Extension adds the option to top-right system menu. Yes, you can do this either via a graphical shutdown application, or shutdown command with few parameter. However, for beginners or ...
After more than two years of development, free open-source DJ software Mixxx 2.3.0 released as the big stable release with a total of 7477 changes over 1 million lines of code since the last release. The new release introduced hotcue ...
For those dual boot Windows 11 with Ubuntu or other Linux, you’ll find different time display in each system. And usually Windows shows incorrect clock time. There are two time standards, localtime and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, aka GMT). The ...
By releasing version 3.0.3 RC1, Audacity digital audio editor finally adds official Linux binary support! It’s the 64-bit Appimage package that runs in most Linux Distributions. Without installing, it’s a single executable that launches the software via double-click. Other changes ...