Category: Linux News
Linux Mint is Redesigning the Cinnamon App Menu
Last year saw the Cinnamon desktop receive a much-needed modern makeover, but it seems the visual revamp effort isn’t over yet. Wo...
Firefox 136 Released with Vertical Tabs, New Sideb...
The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release delivers a number of notable new features—features Mozilla may be hoping help it re-earn some ...
Skype Hangs Up (For Good) on May 5 – Export Data B...
Skype, one of the best-known video chat/calling apps, is shutting down forever on May 5, Microsoft has announced today. Nothing go...
Linux App Release Roundup (Feb 2025)
February proved a bumper month for Linux software updates, seeing big release of productivity suites LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE an...
Mozilla is Introducing ‘Terms of Use’ to Firefox...
Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ p...
App Grid Wizard Puts GNOME Shell Shortcuts into Fo...
The application picker (aka app grid) in GNOME Shell is pretty perfect as it comes, showing launchers for installed apps plus the ...
4 New Effects Added to ‘Burn My Windows’ GNOME Ext...
A set of four cool new window opening and closing animations got added to gaudy GNOME Shell extension Burn My Windows this weekend...
Plank Reloaded: Desktop Dock App for Cinnamon
At one time, Linux dock apps were a plentiful species, with innovative ‘panel painters’ like GNOME Do/Docky to unashamed bling-kin...
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released with Many Changes
A new alpha release of System76’s emergent Rust-based COSMIC Desktop environment is out with a clutch of important improvements, b...
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is Available to Download
The Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS release is now available to download, albeit one week later than initially planned. Serving as the second p...
Mesa 25.0 Released with Support for Vulkan 1.4 & O...
A new version of the Mesa graphics library has been released. Mesa 25.0 features Vulkan 1.4 support, which the team bill as the ‘f...
Power Profiles Daemon 0.30 Preps Support for Linux...
A new version of the Power Profiles Daemon (PPD) was uploaded to the Plucky archives today, and should soon make its way out to Ub...
Ubuntu LTS Users Might Soon Get Frequent Intel GPU...
This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to bring an updated...
Mozilla Announce Leadership Changes, Plans to ‘Div...
Mozilla Corporation’s president, Mark Surman, today announced plans to tackle what he says are ‘major headwinds’ facing the compan...
Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Expands Window Sugges...
A new version of Tiling Shell, the flexible window snapping assistant for GNOME Shell, is available. Tiling Shell v16.2 now surfac...
Ubuntu to Fix a Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’ in its Icon T...
Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t sa...
How to Disable (or Change) Login Sound in Ubuntu 2...
When you log in to Ubuntu 24.10 an audio clip plays to greet you — a lengthy audio clip that slowly builds to a plinky-plonky cres...
Ubuntu’s Icon Theme Fixing Its Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug...
Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t sa...
GNOME’s Website Just Got a Major Redesign
GNOME rolled out a huge revamp to its official website today, and I have to say: it’s a solid improvement over the old one. The of...
Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Wee...
If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop tomorrow, I come bearing some bad news: the release has been delayed by a week. C...
