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   (387+ words) All without a single AI feature in sight LibreOffice 26.8 was download more than 1 million times in its first week of release, which The Document Foundation say is the highest first-week figure of any release of the free office suite. Released…...

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, 1+ day ago   (475+ words) Freshly rolled file previews Sushi, the spacebar preview utility for Nautilus file manager, has been ported to GTK4 for GNOME 51. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Sushi is like Quick Look on macOS: you highlight a file (image, music, video, document, etc)…...

2+ week, 4+ hour 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…...