3+ day, 21+ 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…...

1+ week, 2+ 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, 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, 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…...

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…...