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The next long-term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 24.04, is scheduled to be released on April 25, 2024. Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, lists this as the final release date (though, given the nature of open-source development, the final release date is subject to change). This and other important dates in the Ubuntu 24.04 development cycle include: February 29, 2024 – Feature F

Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. In a surprise move, Ubuntu developers have agreed to stop shipping Flatpak, preinstalled Flatpak apps, and any plugins needed to install Flatpak apps through a GUI software tool in the default package set across all eight of Ubuntu’s official flavors, as of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 release. As far as Ubuntu

A new version of the OpenShot video editor is now available to download — and it’s boasting some colossal sounding improvements. OpenShot 2.6.0 is the first update to this popular open source video editor this year, but it looks to have been well worth the wait. Bundled up inside the latest build are new ‘computer vision and AI’ effects. These include some impressive-sounding motion tracking and o

Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps Flutter will be the default choice for future mobile and desktop apps created by Canonical. Google’s open-source and cross-platform UI making framework has already proven popular with web devs looking for an easy “in” to fuss-free mobile and desktop app development. Flutter is underpinned by the Dart programming language but the new des

JingOS, the Linux Tablet Distro, Releases First Alpha Build The first public release of JingOS, a new Linux distro designed for tablets, is available to download. Don’t expect anything too polished at this stage. Devs say the JingOS 0.6 release is “not stable”, far from feature complete, and unsuited for use as a ‘daily driver’, i.e.you should consider it alpha quality software intended for use by

The upcoming Ubuntu 21.04 release will use Wayland as its default display server. Deja vu? Ubuntu developers made Wayland the default session in Ubuntu 17.10 (which was, notably, the first version of the system to use the GNOME Shell desktop). However, things weren’t perfect at the time so developers chose to switch back to Xorg for the subsequent release. But now they say they’re ready to give Wa

Mozilla Firefox 85 is now available to download. In this post we look at what’s been added, changed, and improved in the update. We started with the biggest new feature in Firefox 85, which improves the browser’s privacy credentials. Firefox now has support for network partitioning — don’t worry; despite the name this (thankfully) isn’t anything to do with your OS partitions or local drives. Netwo

Welp, Ubuntu 21.04 Won’t Ship with GNOME 40 or GTK4 The upcoming Ubuntu 21.04 release will NOT include GNOME 40 or GTK4. Ubuntu devs cite the redesign of GNOME Shell in GNOME 40 and its potential impact on GNOME extensions (of which Ubuntu ships a few by default) and the Yaru GTK theme as reason to “stick” to GNOME 3.38 this cycle. GTK4 also won’t feature in Ubuntu 21.04. But with upstream GNOME h

A new version of Font Manager, a GTK app to browse and install fonts on Linux desktops, is now available for download. The Font Manager 0.8.0 update introduces integration with Google Fonts, one of the largest online sources of freely licensed font families. Users can click the ‘G’ tool bar icon to instantly access more than 1,000 fonts distributed through Google’s type hub. Fonts can be display b

Installing the Slick ‘Material Shell’ Extension on Ubuntu is Now Easier It’s been a year since we showcased the Material Shell GNOME extension on this site and in that time the add-on has matured greatly. The developer behind the add-on recently shared a ‘one year update’ with Linux customisation fans on Reddit, announcing that the add-on is now considered stable and is available to install direct

Download Now: Firefox 80 Released with Optional GPU Acceleration on Linux Mozilla Firefox 80 is now available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux. But before we look at what’s new and improved in Firefox 80 let’s address the shy elephant in the room. The past few months have been difficult for Mozilla and the wider Firefox community It’s fair to say that the past few months have been pretty d

It feels a bit weird writing about a Windows app release on a blog primarily aimed at Linux users, but hey: the Windows Subsystem for Linux has well and truly blurred the lines these past few years. WSL is hugely popular is far more so than a lot of people (myself included) appreciate! And Ubuntu is at the heart of the WSL community. While it is not the only Linux distro available for WSL it is th

I’m pretty excited for the upcoming release of the PineTab as it’ll arguably be the first real Linux tablet there’s ever been! But for a Linux tablet to actually be a Linux tablet it needs to run a Linux-powered tablet OS. As seen with the PinePhone, the open source community is stepping up to provide one. When the video at the top of this post landed in my inbox I clicked play without hesitation,

Ubuntu 20.10 Codename Revealed – And It’s Kinda Groovy, Baby The Ubuntu 20.10 codename has been revealed in all of its glory — and if you thought that ‘Disco Dingo‘ was a far out name, wait until you meet the ‘Groovy Gorilla‘. Yes, “Groovy Gorilla” is the development codename chosen for the next stable Ubuntu release, which is currently earmarked for general availability on October 26, 2020. Ubunt

The Ubuntu 20.04 release ships with a size set of user-visible changes — and in the video above I show you them in action! Now, fair warning: LTS releases are always a difficult one to cover. The cumulative list of changes from LTS to LTS is huge. But while that list is new to the majority of people, it is old news to those staked out on interim releases. So here it is anyway folks. My bi-annual (

Here’s an easy way to sample the changes included in Ubuntu 20.04 without the hassle of having to download and install the distro first! I’ve went on a screen snapping spree in a fresh copy of the os to collate the following collection of screenshots that showcase some of visible end-user changes in Focal Fossa. Think of this post as a pack of pre-install spoilers crossed with some pragmatic pre-i

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was released on April 23, 2020, succeeding Ubuntu 19.10 as the latest stable release of this hugely popular Linux-based operating system — but what’s new? Everything you need to know about Ubuntu 20.04, including where to download it and what new features it comes with Well, six months of blood, sweat and development tears have gone in to making Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (codenamed “Focal

The boot screen experience in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS looks a tiny bit different from the one provided in Ubuntu 19.10 — at least for some people. After I boot my Lenovo laptop up I now see Lenovo’s terrible logo front and centre. The informative half of the boot splash is still there nestled beneath the vendor logo, and is composed of an animated spinner and the distro logo. I first noticed the change a

Open source artists should check out the latest release of MyPaint, as it scored a substantial update this weekend. The new MyPaint 2.0.0 release succeeds MyPaint 1.2, released back in 2017, and brings a stack of new features and improved tools with it. MyPaint is notable for its compatibility with Wacom graphics tablets (and similar devices), including both pressure and tilt-sensitivity, as well

Ubuntu 20.04 Confirms Its Kernel Choice (And Spoiler: It Isn’t the Latest) Ubuntu 20.04 will ship with Linux 5.4 kernel and not the recent Linux 5.5 release. The decision, confirmed on the Ubuntu kernel mailing list, isn’t exactly a major surprise: Ubuntu 20.04 is the next Long Term Support release of Ubuntu, and Linux 5.4 is the latest Long Term Support release of the Linux kernel. It’s arguably

Today is Ubuntu’s 15th birthday! October 20, 2019, marks the 15th anniversary of the release of Ubuntu 4.10, the first ever version of Ubuntu, a desktop Linux distribution that has arguably helped change the computing landscape for the better. 15 years on and Ubuntu is still leading from the front at the cutting edge of Linux development, from cloud to cluster, desktop to data centre That’s really

A CLI browser that can play videos… I woke up today to find my Twitter feed chok full of praise for something called Browsh. It’s a brand new, modern text-based web browser built for the command line. Yes, I did just say a text browser. And yes, the year is still 2018. So what’s got the geeks I follow gushing over something so terrifically niche? Let’s find out… Browsh is a Text Based Browser If I

GNOME devs have made it easy to use emoji in apps Color emoji support is finally coming to Ubuntu. Next April’s release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be the first version of Ubuntu that can display color emoji in desktop apps, out of the box. Ubuntu users will also be able to enter the glyphs in GTK apps using a searchable emoji picker. Based on a recent bug report, all of the relevant packages needed