1+ day, 8+ 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…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (255+ words) Love Firefox enough to drop $200 on a branded keyboard? Tough, it’s sold it1. It’s a full-sized, 108-key mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches, and has a unique keycap colour scheme and branding: a Firefox logo on the super/meta key and…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (357+ words) Easier way to test an optimised package set Ubuntu 26.10 daily builds now include an amd64-v3 installer, allowing you to try out a CPU-optimised package set from the off, without any post-install reconfiguration. The distro began building amd64v3 packages as an opt-in archive…...

1+ week, 10+ hour 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, 9+ hour 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, 10+ hour ago   (475+ words) Freshly rolled file previews Sushi, the spacebar preview utility for Nautilus file manager, has been ported to GTK4 for GNOME 51. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Sushi is like Quick Look on macOS: you highlight a file (image, music, video, document, etc)…...

1+ week, 2+ 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, 3+ day ago   (290+ words) Many AI workloads run on Ubuntu, so it makes sense Canonical recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Secure AI Alliance to help make open-source security tools for AI systems and autonomous agents. The alliance formed in July 2026 in response to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (458+ words) Ain't no-one buying one to run Kodi Arduino’s VENTUNO Q, which runs Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, went up for pre-order in late August – and quickly sold through its initial allocation. The board is is targeted at edge AI, robotics and industrial use…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (367+ words) Fixes need to land before the gate officially opens If you’re wondering why you can’t do a directly upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 from 24.04 yet, despite the Resolute Raccoon’s first point release being live, there is a reason. Canonical’s Oliver Reiche said…...