This simple tutorial shows how to install the fastest terminal emulator, Alacritty, in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Linux Mint 20 via PPA. Alacritty is a cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator works on macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows. It’s free and open-source ...

The beta of Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” Xfce, Cinnamon, and MATE editions were released for testing and to help the Linux Mint team fix issues prior to the stable release. Linux Mint 20.1 is a long term support release which ...

Ksnip screenshot tool released version 1.8.0 a few days ago with many great new features and improvements, making it more powerful. Ksnip is a free open-source Qt based screenshot tool with editing features. It runs in Window, Mac OS, and ...

Hugin, free open source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging program, finally released version 2020.0.0. Hugin 2020.0.0 release highlights include: Fixes fast preview on HiDPI screens under GTK+3 and MacOS. Make fast preview screen zoom-able with mouse wheel. Make hugin_hdrmerge ...

Mozilla Firefox web browser 84.0 now is available to download. Firefox 84 is a big release. It comes with WebRender enabled by default in Linux Gnome on X for faster page rendering. For Wayland session, you can manually enable the ...

Linux Kernel 5.10 was released a day ago as the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release. Here’s how to install in Ubuntu & Linux Mint. Linus Torvalds announced the release of Kernel 5.10: “Ok, here it is – 5.10 is ...

In the default Gnome desktop when you trying to open an application, the app window sometimes does not get into focus immediately, instead it pops up ‘xxx’ is ready notification and opens the window behind the current focused window. This ...

KDE announced its December 2020 apps update including Kdenlive 20.12 two days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA. Kdenlive 20.12 is a big release with many new features, stability improvements, various mix and transition fixes. While ...

XFE (X File Explorer) is a lightweight Windows File Explorer or Commander like file manager for Unix / Linux X. It’s small memory footprint, very fast, and only requires the FOX library to be fully functional, and aims to light ...

The Python programming language 3.9.1 was released a few days ago as the first maintenance release of Python 3.9. Python 3.9.1 comes with 282 changes since 3.9.0. It is the first version to support macOS 11 Big Sur. With Xcode ...

Vivaldi web browser 3.5 was released a day ago with improved tabs and media playback, and support for sharing URL via QR code. Vivaldi 3.5 release highlights: More tabs management, e.g., open a new tab in the background by default, ...

OpenRGB, formerly OpenAuraSDK, is a free open-source RGB lighting control that doesn’t depend on manufacturer software. OpenRGB supports ASUS, ASRock, Corsair, G.Skill, Gigabyte, HyperX, MSI, Razer, ThermalTake, and more (See supported devices). While every manufacturer has their own app, proprietary ...

RedNotebook, modern desktop diary and personal journal software, released version 2.21 today. RedNotebook 2.21 features updated MathJax to version 3, resulting in much faster rendering / preview times; The release also fixed date references in CEF-based HtmlView. How to Install ...

This simple tutorial shows how to install IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 via its official Linux tarball via PPA. For those don’t like Snap and Flatpak packages, IntelliJ IDEA offers official Linux tarball in its download page. You can download the package, ...

HPLIP, HP developed printer and scanner drivers for Linux, released version 3.20.11 a few days ago. Different to previous releases, HPLIP 3.20.11 does not include new HP printers support. It only adds support for Ubuntu 20.10 and Debian 10.6. And ...