2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (413+ words) File under "—wait; it couldn't do that?" An option pick a default terminal is to GNOME Settings, as the image above, teased by developer Ignacy Kuchciński last week, shows. Those of you who don’t use the command line often enough…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (387+ words) All without a single AI feature in sight LibreOffice 26.8 was download more than 1 million times in its first week of release, which The Document Foundation say is the highest first-week figure of any release of the free office suite. Released…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (312+ words) Vendor subpackages come to noble installs Firmware updates on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS have got smaller, as Canonical has backported the split Linux firmware packages it introduced in 26.04. To make the change in noble, the linux-firmware package is now a meta-package that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (326+ words) Vivaldi 8.2 rolled out today (3 September 2026) and lets you do quick and private math calculations directly in the address bar. You can click to copy the the result to your system clipboard, ready to paste elsewhere. Previous versions Vivaldi let you…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (345+ words) Getting is planning to ‘sunset’ IRC as an official support method, and some long-time users aren’t happy. The recently Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS release announcement didn’t include a link to the Ubuntu Support IRC channel under its “if you have a question…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (328+ words) The shape of things to come Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, entered feature freeze on 20 August – though the formal announcement arrive later than usual. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along with the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (814+ words) You wait years for a modern email client for GNOME to appear, then several appear at once. Postcard is a new email client for GNOME that has echoes of Geary The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (676+ words) Update also speeds up video seeking – but for whom? Mozilla has released Firefox 154 with some small AI-related changes, an ‘improved’ full-page translations and faster video seeking on “all operating systems”. Firefox 154 serves as the final monthly release of Firefox before…...