23+ hour, 30+ min ago   (306+ words) Bingo – full house of memory-safe utilities now included Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held back on…...

2+ day, 16+ 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…...

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, 6+ day ago   (503+ words) Diagnosing nothing as a feature™ I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. I don’t see it often, but when I do it…...