Linux Kernel 5.13 was officially released. Linus Torvalds wrote on lkml: So we had quite the calm week since rc7, and I see no reason to delay 5.13. The shortlog for the week is tiny, with just 88 non-merge commits ...

Microsoft has announced Windows 11. Besides online upgrading, here’s how to burn Windows 11 as an USB installer in Ubuntu Linux. The official Windows 11 iso image will be available to download soon in next week. Though it has leaked! ...

Audacity audio editor and recorder is easy to install in Ubuntu Software via Snap package. For those prefer the classic deb package, the Ubuntu PPA has updated for the latest Audacity 3.0.2. Since Audacity 3.0, it requires the development branch ...

Free cross-platform DVD authoring app DVDStyler 3.2 was released. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Ubuntu 21.04. Changes in DVDStyler 3.2 include: Added possiblity to add video filters before pad/scale filters. Some improvements of PCM support ...

Kid3 3.8.7 was released as the latest version of the KDE’s audio tag editor. You can install it easily in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Linux Mint 20 via PPA. Kid3 is a free open-source tool to edit tags ...

This simple tutorial shows how to search for, install, remove, and manager Flatpak apps in Ubuntu Linux. Flatpak is an universal Linux package format developed by an independent community. Like snap, it runs in sandbox and bundles most runtime libraries. ...

Working with multiple computers at your desk? To make it clean, you can use single mouse and keyboard to control all the machines via Barrier. Barrier is a free and open-source solution forked from Synergy. It makes it easy to ...

This simple tutorial shows how to enable & configure the multi-touch gestures in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 21.10 using touchegg. For those running Ubuntu on laptop or PC with external touchpad, multi-finger gestures enable users with more actions to ...

The upcoming Windows 11 has leaked online a few days ago. Here’s how to implement the new look and feel in Ubuntu 20.04, and/or Ubuntu 21.04. Gnome has a large collection of extensions to get additional and optional functionality. You ...

A new development release of the free open-source implementation to run Windows apps on Linux, Wine 6.11 is out! The release introduced theming support in all builtin programs. As well, it features all remaining CRT math functions imported from Musl; ...

Looking for a lightweight photo editor and management app for Linux? Try Fotoxx, a free and open-source software which is super fast. Fotoxx is a GTK application to organize and manage a large image collection, edit and optimize photos, and ...

For those sticking to the latest Sigil ebook editor, here’s Ubuntu PPA maintains the 6.0 release packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Linux Mint 19 & 20. Sigil is a free and open-source ebook editor designed to edit ...

Ubuntu lists all the available user accounts in the GDM login screen. You can however remove them to protect your privacy. Gnome, the default desktop environment, has a hidden option to force users to type the username and then password ...

This simple tutorial shows beginners how to easily wipe files, folder, and/or free disk space to protect your files from recovering in Ubuntu. As you may know, any deleted files can be easily restored from the trash can. Even after ...

Though it’s not perfect, Global menu is still possible in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04 with the default Gnome Desktop. It used to have a Gnome Global Menu extension to enable focused app menus (e.g., File, Edit, View, Help, etc.) in ...