Bazaar Flatpak manager adds permission warnings showing app safety, Flathub account sync, verified-only filtering, and a neat new 'market stall' app icon.

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Dell revives XPS brand with redesigned 14 and 16-inch laptops. Ubuntu 24.04 support coming to XPS 14 later this year. Details and specs inside.

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What changed in Ubuntu in 2025? From the "oxidisation" of sudo to the end of X11, here's a recap of the 10 biggest changes the distro saw last year.

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What would make 2026 Ubuntu's best year yet? Share your wishlist wants and must-haves, be it bold changes or resolving long-standing bugs. Sound off!

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I roundup a crop of December's smaller Linux app releases, including the Clapper media player, QEMU virtualisation tool, Scribus DTP and ONLYOFFICE.

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Open source video editor Shotcut 25.12 adds 10-bit CPU pipeline support, linear color processing, and better hardware encoding on Linux.

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A new GNOME Shell extension brings vertical scrolling back to the app grid. Ideal for mouse scroll wheel obsessives running GNOME 49.

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Pinta 3.1 is available for download. The open source image editor adds axonometric grids, polygon selection tool, lower memory usage – and lots more!

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Turntable 5.0 adds collapsible player controls you can hide on-demand, plus a year-end 'wrapped' recap pulling stats from Last.fm, Libre.fm and more. Free on Flathub.

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Firefox's new Split View lets you browse two tabs side-by-side in one window. Enable this experimental feature in Firefox 146 now - here's how.

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Ghostty, the fast GPU‑accelerated terminal, now operates under a non‑profit funding model through fiscal sponsorship with Hack Club. Here’s what it means.

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Want to run COSMIC desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS? A new (unofficial) PPA makes it easy to. Follow the steps in this guide, learn about the caveats and how to 'undo'.

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Elementary OS 8.1 is out with Wayland enabled by default, new apps, animations and eye candy. Based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with Linux 6.14.

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Add an animated Santa to Ubuntu with the Gnomelets GNOME extension. See Santa walk on app windows, jump and roam your desktop. Works with GNOME 45+.

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Linux Mint 22.3 beta brings a redesigned app menu, regex file search, new on-screen keyboard, and improved Wayland support. See what's new in this update.

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Canonical confirms Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will ship with Linux kernel 6.20 (7.0) in April, bringing latest hardware support and performance improvements to users.

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Kdenlive 25.12 adds native vertical video support, a new UI docking system, and duration-based markers. See what’s new in the latest KDE video editor update.

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OpenShot 3.4 brings 32% faster performance, LUT colour grading, new effects, and on-canvas editing tools. Details on how to get this update inside.

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Mozilla's new CEO confirms Firefox will become an "AI browser", with opt-out features. The aim is to raise money. But what does this pivot means for users?

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The second GIMP 3.2 release candidate brings a fresh set of improvements, fixes, and UI tweaks. Download the RC2 build to test the changes before the stable release.

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