Ardour 9.0 open-source DAW (digital audio workstation) is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
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Darktable 5.4.1 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with noise profiles for Canon EOS 10D and Sony ILCE-7CR cameras, as well as many bug fixes.
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LibreOffice, the free open-source office suite that defaults in many Linux Distributions, released new major 26.2 version yesterday.
The new version updates it UI with vertical tabs in left side for the dialogues. While user can easily switch back to use tabs on top, by going to Tools -> Options -> LibreOffce -> Appearance setting page.
The layouts panel in the Impress sidebar, theme dialog, and Presets and Shadow Style Positions from the border page dialog now use modern native IconView GTK widget for improved UI consistency and performance. And, in Linux it uses native GTK or Qt color chooser dialog instead of the custom LibreOffice one, though also user can switch back by going to General settings.
Besides UI changes, the new version added support for importing/exporting Markdown format, as well as using ODT/DOCX templates while importing a Markdown document.
It also sped up EPUB export and added a progress bar during the export process. And, it improved line height handling of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean DOC/DOCX documents.
For fonts with license restrictions, it does no longer silently ignore but asks user if open the document in edit mode or in read-only mode.
The Writer app now supports Start and End paragraph alignment, automatically set the direction of RTL text while typing, and includes new option to prevent dragging of selected text.
It as well displays a more visible grid, and the Snap to Grid functionality now accurately aligns objects with the grid.
The Calc features xmlMaps.xml, Biff12 (Excel 2007+) clipboard format, and connector support. Excel 2010+ is now the default format when saving as XLSX. There are as well performance and sort dialog options improvements.
Other changes include:
For more, see the official release note.
LibreOffice provides official installers which are available to download via the link below:
Linux user may choose the native deb for Debian/Ubuntu based distributions, rpm for RHEL/Fedora, or Snap package that’s available in Ubuntu Software (App Center), Flatpak package runs in sandbox, or non-installable AppImage.
For Ubuntu users who want to upgrade the pre-installed one to the latest 26.2 version, then it’s recommended to wait the update from LibreOffice Fresh PPA.
SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9). SmartOS is designed to be particularly suitable for building clouds and generating appliances.
Krita 6 open-source digital painting app is now available for public beta testing with Wayland color management support, Qt 6 port, and more. Here's what to expect!
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For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the Linux Kernel 6.17 backported from Ubuntu 25.10 is available ahead of the 4th point release (Ubuntu 24.04.4).
As you may know, every Ubuntu LTS point release (except for the first one) has a hardware enablement (HWE) kernel major version update, that is the backport of the latest supported release, until the next LTS.
Ubuntu 24.04.2 has Kernel 6.11 from 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04.3 features Kernel 6.14 from 25.04, and now Kernel 6.17 from 25.10 is available before the release of Ubuntu 24.04.4 due in this month.
Different to the Mainline Kernel PPA and any third-party Kernel packages, the HWE kernel is signed with secure boot support, NVIDIA proprietary driver compatibility, and Ubuntu specific drivers. And, it’s officially supported by Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu).
Compare to the last Kernel 6.14, there are numerous new features and new hardware support in Kernel 6.15, 6.16, and 6.17.
For AMD, it includes virtual TPM driver to emulate a hardware TPM 2.0 chip for virtual machines (VMs) or containers, RX 9070 series fan speed report, OEM i2c support for RGB lighting controls, AMD Versal NET SoC support, temperature monitoring support for Zen 5 desktop CPUs, and better support for processors with mix of classic and dense cores.
On Intel side, it features Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) support, Xe driver update with virtual memory share, TDX support in KVM to create hardware-isolated virtual machines, audio support for Intel Wildcat Lake, fan speed report with Intel Xe driver, web camera support on Lunar Lake and Panther Lake laptops, and OpenGL and Vulkan support enabled for Xe3 Panther Lake graphics.
There are as well many new and updated hardware support. They include the support for Apple Touch Bar display, Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C, Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra PCIe, Touch Bars on x86 MacBook Pros, and new driver for being able to reboot modern M1/M2 Macs.
It also includes support for MNT Reform 2, Samsung Snapdragon X, ASUS Zenbook A14 and HP EliteBook Ultra G1q laptops, hardware monitoring and fan control on compatible Alienware laptops, external DisPlayPort support in ThinkPad T14s and XPS 13 9345, and USB-A ports, micro-SD card reader, Bluetooth connectivity for ASUS Vivobook S15.
Other hardware support include:
For more details, see 6.15, 6.16, 6.17 in kernelnewbies.org.
To get the new kernel, simply launch Software Updater then install all the available updates.
Or, launch terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command below instead:
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
Finally, restart computer to apply change.
For original 24.04 users who never installed the HWE kernel, try running the command below to get it:
sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-24.04
And, in case the new kernel does not work properly on your machine, run the command below to install back the 6.14 kernel, then boot it from Grub boot-loader -> Advanced options sub menu.
sudo apt install linux-image-generic-6.14 linux-headers-generic-6.14
KDE Gear 25.12.2 open-source software suite is now available with various bug fixes and small improvements for your favorite KDE applications.
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NuTyX is a French Linux distribution (with multi-language support) built from Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch, with a custom package manager called "cards". The package manager can install individual binary packages, a group of related binary packages (e.g. desktop packages, such as KDE or Xfce), and compile source packages from "ports". The distribution is designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Melawy Linux is an Arch-based desktop Linux distribution featuring a customised KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. It uses the alternative XanMod Linux kernel designed for improved performance and responsiveness. Some of the distribution's features include the Calamares installer, a custom-designed rEFInd boot manager, a Plymouth boot screen, and the Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) desktop login manager. Melawy Linux is available in "Base" and "Developer" editions.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) users are receiving the Linux 6.17 kernel and Mesa 25.2 graphics stacks from Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka).
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LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is now available for download with numerous new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here's what's new!
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Milis Linux is an independently-developed Linux distribution supported by Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey. It is built using the Linux From Scratch (LFS) project and it includes a custom package management utility called Milis Paket Sistemi (MPS). Milis Linux deploys Wayland as the default graphic server with the labwc window-stacking compositor, the Waybar Wayland bar and Sakura terminal emulator to create a functional desktop user interface. GNOME OS is an experimental, immutable Linux distribution that ships the latest in-development GNOME desktop, core applications and stack. It serves as a reference for developers and testers. It is designed around the modern systemd and GNU-based userland built from the Freedesktop SDK. Initially, GNOME OS used a library and set of utilities called OSTree to deploy the root filesystem and manage updates, but later migrated to "systemd-sysupdate" which offers enhanced immutability, auto-updating, adaptability, factory reset, uniformity and other modernised security properties. GNOME OS can be loaded as a live image in Boxes, VirtualBox, QEMU and other virtualisation software, but it can also be installed on a standard x86_64 hardware. The distribution does not support traditional package management; however, additional software applications can be installed via the Flatpak utility which is supported out of the box. Aeon is an immutable desktop Linux distribution based on openSUSE. It is a relatively small, low-maintenance system with automated daily updates, thus recommended for Linux beginners or "lazy developers". Some of the distribution's other features include a custom system installer called Transactional Installation Kit (TIK), a pre-configured GNOME desktop, out-of-the-box support for Flatpak packages, Distrobox configured to launch Tumbleweed containers, and automatic rollbacks to its last working state.In this article, you will discover the best Ubuntu apps for beginners, covering everything from productivity tools to entertainment options
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