3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (526+ words) You can now give the Ubuntu desktop a ‘Liquid Glass’ makeover using a new GNOME Shell Extension that written with ‘significant’ help from AI. Its developer, Ryosuke Watanabe, said they loved the look of Liquid Glass – Apple’s new design material…...

5+ day, 8+ 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…...

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, 4+ 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, 6+ 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…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (578+ words) Those running it since April don't need to do anything Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available to download, the first of 5 point releases scheduled for the ‘Resolute Raccoon’ in the 3 years. The release doesn’t add new features per se, but does…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (486+ words) Give those stale literary titles a sloptastic new look A new version of open-source ebook manager Calibre is out – and it lets you create custom book covers using generative AI. Calibre 9.14, released August 28, adds an “AI Generate” button to the…...

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, 8+ hour ago   (582+ words) Launchpad didn't get the memo about 2017 layoffs… A decades-old bug on Ubuntu’s Launchpad marked as invalid at the weekend led to an impromptu reunion for many of Canonical’s former engineers. Bug #1589796 was filed in 2016 by a user who’d spent £700 on…...