Ubuntu is Replacing its Image Viewer and Terminal Apps
Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' will ship Loupe and Ptyxis as default image viewer and terminal apps in the upcoming October release. You're reading Ubuntu is Replacing its Image Viewer and Terminal Apps, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce e...
Firefox Now Lets You Add Custom Images to New Tab Page
A number of new personalisation features have been added to the Firefox New Tab page in the past year, including the ability to pick a background image from a small set of hand-picked pics and solid colours. Pleasant though those curated images are, th...
Firefox Now Supports Custom Images on New Tab Page
A number of new personalisation features have been added to the Firefox New Tab page in the past year, including the ability to pick a background image from a small set of hand-picked pics and solid colours. Pleasant though those curated images are, th...
Linux Foundation Newsletter: May 2025
Welcome to the May 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. We’ve got exciting LF announcements, new research surveys in the field, project milestones, and can't miss events! We are so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be s...
Canonical Will Donate $120k to Open Source Projects This Year
Canonical commits to donating $120k to the open source developers building the projects and tools that help power the Ubuntu ecosystem. You're reading Canonical Will Donate $120k to Open Source Projects This Year, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
Canonical Donating $120,000 to Open Source Projects This Year
Canonical commits to donating $120k to the open source developers building the projects and tools that help power the Ubuntu ecosystem. You're reading Canonical Donating $120,000 to Open Source Projects This Year, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
NordVPN Linux App Updated with New GUI
NordVPN today announced a major update to its Linux app, adding a much-requested GUI front-end that makes it easier to control, configure and monitor secure connections. Linux users have been able to use an official, comprehensive command-line interfac...
Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Have Been Re-Enabled
If you’ve been itching to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience has paid off — upgrades have been re-enabled. For those unaware, Ubuntu was forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release a few hours after its rel...
Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon
If you’ve been patiently waiting to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience is about to pay off. Ubuntu developers were forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release due to a number of major bugs affecting users acr...
Kagi’s Orion Browser Linux Port Uses GTK4/libadwaita
I reported a few months back Kagi, the company behind the paid, private and privacy-focused search engine of the same time, is porting its Orion web browser to Linux – now we have our first early look at how its Linux GUI is shaping up. A recent deve...
Render a Guitar Pro Score in Real Time
We will use Tuxguitar to render the audio of a Guitar Pro score [5]. Guitar Pro scores are files with a complete band score transcribed (guitars, bass, drums, synths and more). Introduction Tuxguitar is a quite powerful application written in a mixture...
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community, This is bits from the DPL for April. End of 10 I am sure I was speaking in the interest of the whole project when joining the "End of 10" campaign. Here is what I wrote to the initiators: Hi Joseph and all drivers of the "End of ...
KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Update Available to Kubuntu Users
If you’re running Kubuntu 25.04 and want the latest fixes the KDE Plasma 6.3.5 release, you can use the Kubuntu backports PPA to get ’em. KDE Plasma 6.3.5 popped out a few weeks back, serving as the fifth and (likely) final bug-fix release prior to...
This RISC-V AI PC Delivers 50 TOPS, Runs Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu is one of the leading Linux distributions for RISC-V hardware thanks to Canonical’s strategic partnerships with companies like DeepComputing – who just announced their powerful new RISC-V AI PC running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The DC-ROMA RISC-V AI...
GNOME Replaces Totem Video Player with Showtime
Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have cast a new video player for a staring role in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream change now merged, the aged GTK3 video player Totem has been replaced by newer, fresher...
