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The Nautilus file manager is great for browsing your files and folders, but it lacks a dedicated way to see all your drives a how much space is left on each – but you can […]
Scrcpy, the open-source tool for viewing and controlling your Android phone from your desktop, added support for zero-copy hardware decoding in its latest release.
Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 5 jumps by […]
VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by […]
The developer behind the first Windows Task Manager app has vibe-coded a new system monitor app – and it works on macOS and Linux too. TMOG (Task Manager OG) is the work of David Plummer, who, in the 1990s, developed […]
Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in […]
The Ubuntu 26.10 beta, which had been due on 24 September, has been pushed back to 1 October. Canonical’s Matthieu Clemenceau, announcing the delay, said “unforeseen infrastructure issues” require pushing the release back by one week. The […]
OpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can run Codex in your local repos, hook into […]
LightDM, Ubuntu’s former display manager, has had its first new release in four years – and the first under a new set of maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a ‘catch up’ release that adds Qt6 support […]
An updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension that shows track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with more animated flourishes than your average now-playing applet, is out. If you’re prone […]
Night Light Scheduler is a new GNOME Shell extension that lets you control how warm your screen is throughout the evening (or day). GNOME’s built-in Night Light feature offers a customisable daily schedule, and lets […]
Mozilla has released Firefox 153 with built-in containers, QR code generation and more quick actions in the address bar. This is the final “monthly” stable release before Mozilla moves to a faster release cadence, putting […]