Category: Linux
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GNOME Shell can display weather forecast and world clock info inside of the message tray (aka the notification area) – and in this post I show you how to set it up. But why might you want to? Well, being able to instantly see a five-hour …
With the Ubuntu 20.04 beta release here you might be thinking about making the upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 yourself — but how do you do it? Complete Guide Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: Everything You Need to Know Well, in this guide I show you the steps required …
The Astro Slide is an Android-based smartphone with sliding physical keyboard currently crowdfunding its way into existence — but with the added lure of Linux support. Now, i’m generally wary of mentioning anything that is crowdfunded. That goes double when it’s a) technology being hawked on …
If you’re a fan of the Arc GTK theme — and there’s a good chance you are as its incredibly popular — you may be concerned to hear that the skin is no-longer in active development. Indeed, the reader who got in touch with me to …
Today when I plugged my new USB flash drive into Ubuntu 18.04 laptop, I got an error pop up that said ‘Unable to access “125GB Volume”. Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/xxx/xxx: unknown filesystem type ‘exfat’‘ After a little search on the packages.ubuntu.com, I found Ubuntu main …
The Beta release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is now available to download, and/or upgrade from an old Ubuntu edition. Ubuntu 20.04 is a Long Term Support release with 5-year support. It’s scheduled to be officially released on April 23rd. The new LTS features: Linux 5.4 Kernel. …
QQ for Linux, the popular instant messaging apps developed by Tencent, released the second Beta on April Fools’ Day. The development of QQ on Linux is quite slow. It has been 5 months since the last release. QQ for Linux 2.0 Beta 2 features: Stability improvements. …
Fre:ac audio converter 1.1 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher. Fre:ac 1.1 is a new major release with tons of new features. Highlights include: Official Linux, Mac OS, and 64-bit Windows binaries. Support for dark mode …
Free-software planetarium Stellarium 0.20.0 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Stellarium 0.20.0 brings GUI refactoring and updating, code refactoring (related to Solar system), and many improvements in the code of plugins. Changes in …
Linux Kernel 5.6 was officially released. Linus Torvalds announced: So I’ll admit to vacillating between doing this 5.6 release and doing another -rc. This has a bit more changes than I’d like, but they are mostly from davem’s networking fixes pulls, and David feels comfy with …
