Ubuntu 25.10 Won’t Support Running GNOME on Xorg
Last month I reported that GNOME’s plans to drop X11 support as soon as this year would have a major impact on Ubuntu as it plans its next LTS release — today, Ubuntu confirmed as much. Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’ will not include an X11 Ubuntu desktop session. Only a Wayland session will be provided. It will not be possible to run a GNOME-based desktop on X11 in Ubuntu 25.10. Basically, Ubuntu 25.10 will be Wayland-only for those using the regular1 desktop Ubuntu release. This change: All that’s being dropped is the ability to login to and run a GNOME
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-dropping-xorg-support
Ubuntu 24.10 Support Ends July 10th – Upgrade Soon
Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole reaches end of life July 10, 2025. All users will need to upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin to continue receiving security updates.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole-eol-july-2025
Orbit by Mozilla (its AI Add-on for Firefox) Shutting Down
Orbit by Mozilla, the browser maker’s opt-in AI assistant add-on for Firefox, will shut down on June 26, Mozilla has announced. The extension, which has been in beta for over 6 months, adds an on-page AI assistant (floating orb, toggle flout, or toolbar button) users can click to do various actions, like ask for a summary of the page (or video) being viewed, ask questions about its contents, etc. But now there’s a new sidebar in Firefox to give all users easy access to AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, the point in maintaining a separate add-on with an
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/orbit-by-mozilla-shutting-down-june-26-2025
Gradia is a Slick New Screenshot Annotation Tool for Linux
Taking screenshots on Linux is easy enough, but making them visually engaging? That requires more effort — not so with Gradia. Gradia is a new screenshot tool for Linux with a key difference: it’s focused less on taking screenshots and more on making screenshots look nicer for sharing on social media, app store listings, blog posts, etc., without the need to open full-blown image editing software. Or to say the same thing in fewer words: it lets you turn hum-drum screen captures into eye-catching graphics by placing them inset on a colourful background with annotation tools. A top-level overview of
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/gradia-linux-screenshot-annotation-tool-app
Linux Mint 22.2 Adds Native Fingerprint Login Support
Linux Mint 22.2 adds fingerprint login and authentication support through a new desktop app called Fingwit, which boasts 'smarter' PAM integration.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/linux-mint-fingerprint-support-coming
Ubuntu Devs Debate Splitting Linux Firmware to Reduce Size
Ubuntu developers are discussing whether to split the large linux-firmware package into smaller vendor-specific packages to reduce its size.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/buntu-linux-firmware-package-size-reduction-proposal
Packet is an Android Quick Share App for Linux
Packet is a new Linux app supporting Android's Quick Share feature, letting you wirelessly transfer files between devices. More details, and how to install.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/packet-linux-android-file-transfer-app-quick-share
Canonical is ‘Sunsetting’ Bazaar on Launchpad
To old-timers like me Launchpad, the Canonical-run development hub, is synonymous with Bazaar (bzr), the open-source distribution version control system (VCS) Canonical helped develop. Like GitHub, Launchpad lets anyone sign up and create a repo, then connect from the command-line to push code to it, handle merges, branch, fork, etc. Using ‘recipes’, code in bzr repos can be turned into DEBs, PPAs and Snaps. But the future of Bzr is at crossroads. Canonical plans to ‘sunset’ Bazaar from Launchpad this year: It’s not 100% clear if Canonical will stop relying on Bazaar internally for Ubuntu’s development (given how interconnected the
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/launchpad-bazaar-support-being-removed
Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 Released with Various Changes
A new version of the Raspberry Pi Imager, a free, open source and cross-platform image writing utility (think Etcher, but much redder) is out with an array of modest improvements. Serving as the first release since last September, Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 adds to the big UI changes the previous version brought with some quality-of-life adjustments. For instance, in the OS customisation settings there’s an Enable SSH tab. This now uses “regex to perform some light validation” of public keys to avoid boot failures, having previously just assumed any key entered was correct. Raspberry Pi Imager 9.4 includes an ‘Exclude
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/raspberry-pi-imager-1-9-4-released-with-various-changes