Linux Kernel 5.19 Released with Major Network Improvements + More
A brand new version of the Linux kernel is available to download, arriving at the til end of July or the start of August depending on your locale. Linux 5.19 is a pretty sizeable update all told, and it features a litany of low-level optimisations, notable improvements to networking support, all-important security fixes, and lots more. In announcing the release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Linus Torvalds remarks “…the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It’s something I’ve been waiting for for a _loong_ (sic) time, and 
#News #LinuxKernel
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/linux-kernel-5-19-new-features
Linux Mint 21 Released, This is What’s New
The stable release of Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” is now available to download. This is the latest version of the Ubuntu-based distro and it carries a sizeable set of changes compared to the Linux Mint 20.3 release we saw at the start of the year. In this post I show you what’s new in Linux Mint 21, where to download download it, and recap how to upgrade to Linux Mint 21 from an earlier version should you be running one. As ever, Linux Mint 21 is available in three distinct distillations: the flagship Cinnamon edition (which uses the Cinnamon desktop environment by
#News #Cinnamon #Distros #LinuxMint #LinuxMint21 #Ubuntu22_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/linux-mint-21-download-and-new-features
Ubuntu Devs Finally Fix Frustrating Firefox Snap Flaw
Ubuntu’s beleaguered Firefox Snap package is tackling another of longstanding criticism of it, namely its lack of native messaging support. It’s this fancy-sounding feature that allows Firefox add-ons to “exchange messages with a native application, installed on the user’s computer”. This enables things like desktop password managers to function as expected in the browser. But at last there’s change ahoy. In a short update on the Snapcraft forum Ubuntu developer Olivier Tilloy says integration of a new WebExtensions XDG portal with the latest beta builds of Mozilla Firefox is ready for wider testing via the Snap store. The patches mean
#Dev #News #Beta #Firefox #GnomeExtensions #Snaps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/ubuntu-devs-fix-another-frustrating-firefox-snap-flaw
Sunamu is a Slick ‘Now Playing’ Widget for Your Desktop
I typically use Conky to show ‘Now Playing’ info from my music player on my desktop. But recently I switched to something else — in this post I share it with you! Fair warning: if you’re allergic to Electron, averse to bugs, and/or against editing text files to enable/disable features ad hoc, the app this post is about is …Squarely not for you! Otherwise say salut to Sunamu. Sunamu: All About The Bling Sunamu is a cross-platform desktop tool designed to be blingy first, practical second. It shows whatever the currently playing song is (from any MPRIS compatible music player/client,
#Apps #Electron #EyeCandy #NowPlaying #Sunamu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/sunamu-now-playing-linux-desktop-widget
Firefox 103 is Out with 2-Finger Swipe Back/Forward Gesture on Linux
If you’re impatient to get your hands on the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser you’ll pleased to hear Firefox 103 is now up on the Mozilla FTP ahead of a formal release later this week. Mozilla Firefox 103 features another clutch of conservative changes aimed at improving the overall experience of using the browser rather than dramatically reinventing it. But this release does add a big new feature: two finger horizontal swipe to move back/forward between pages on Linux. This won’t be news if you read omglinux.com, where I wrote about this change back in June. The
#News #AppUpdates #Firefox #Gestures #WebBrowsers
TopHat is a Neat System Monitor for GNOME Shell
Want to keep an eye on your system resources without pulling up a terminal or launching GNOME’s System Monitor tool? Check out TopHat. TopHat is a new system monitor GNOME extension that puts a top-level overview of active CPU, RAM, and network usages in the GNOME Shell top bar. There are, of course, ample system monitor GNOME extensions out there. Heck, I feel like I’ve written about them all at some point. But most tend to be singular, putting a wealth of system resource info within a two column table. TopHat is a bit more focused. Instead of giving you
#Download #GnomeExtensions #System #Systemapps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/tophat-system-monitor-gnome-extension
Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition Now Available with Ubuntu 22.04
You’ll be able to buy the Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition pre-loaded with Ubuntu from August, Dell has announced. The company’s boldly redesigned XPS 13 Plus is also now certified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. This means anyone who purchased the laptop with Windows 11 can install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on it themselves and still benefit from the same hardware-optimisations that the pre-installed version offers. “By bringing the enhanced performance and power management features of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to our most advanced premium laptop, Dell and Canonical reinforce our joint commitment to continue delivering the best computing experience for developers
#Hardware #News #DellXps13 #LinuxLaptops #Ubuntu22_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/dell-xps-13-plus-with-ubuntu-22-04-lts
Curtail is an Awesome Image Compressor Tool for Linux
Curtail is an image compressor for Linux desktops. Built in GTK, it optimises JEPG and PNG images to reduce image file size without reducing image quality.
#Apps #Curtail #GtkApps #ImageCompression
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/curtail-is-an-image-compressor-app-for-ubuntu
‘Cider’ is an Open Source Apple Music Client for Linux Desktops
If you’re an Apple Music subscriber wanting to use the service on Linux, you have to check out Cider. Cider (inspired name, eh?) is an “open-source, community-oriented Apple Music client” for Windows, macOS (not that they need it), and Linux. It is Electron-based but the developers behind it say it was written ‘from scratch with performance in mind’. As well as letting you browse songs, artists, and albums in the Apple Music catalog the app also gives you access to Apple Podcasts too. Obviously Cider is 100% unofficial and not Apple-endorsed. But the feature set is solid, and the UI
#Apps #Apple #AppleMusic #Electron #MusicPlayers #Streaming
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/cider-is-an-open-source-apple-music-client-for-linux-desktops
Dialect is a Useful Language Translation Tool for Linux Desktops
Next time you want to translate between languages don’t bother opening a browser tab, open Dialect instead. Dialect is a language translation app built for Linux desktops. It’s written in GTK4/libadwaita and leverages a number of different online translation services, but it defaults to Google’s ubiquitous-but-well-regarded translation service out-of-the-box. As such, Dialect is able to translate text to and from more than 100 languages straight from the desktop (though you do need to have an active internet connection for it to work). If you’re not a fan of Google you can switch to the LibreTranslate API, with the app allowing
#Apps #Dialect #GikApps #Googletranslate
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/dialect-is-a-gtk-translation-app-for-linux-desktop
Breath Lets You Run Regular Ubuntu on Modern Intel Chromebooks
This post is not a tutorial or a walkthrough or comprehensive introduction or anything else that would probably be beneficial or helpful to those you reading it. Instead, it’s a bit of a waffle. I’ve just spent a few hours playing with something very cool on my over-powered and under-used Acer Chromebook Spin 13. I’ve scratched an itch I’ve had for the longest time and it’s so satisfying. So, a bit like when I resurrected an ancient Chromebook, I want to tell someone about it — but this time without any weird spooky gifs 😅. Run Linux on Modern Intel
#News #Acer #Breath #Chromebook #Chromeos #Ubuntu22_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/i-used-breath-on-my-acer-chromebook-cp713
How to Install Linux Mint’s Apps on Ubuntu
Linux Mint is far more than just the Cinnamon desktop with a bit of green sprinkled on top. It also includes a number of homegrown apps crafted by Mint developers that enhance the overall experience. Nemo file manager is probably the best known in Mint’s software stable, but other terrific tools include Bulky Warpinator, and Hypnotix. They’re well-designed, user-friendly apps ably tailored to their respective tasks. The good news is that you don’t need to switch to Linux Mint to use these apps. The beauty of open-source software (especially Mint’s, which is engineered to be distro-agnostic) is that you can
#HowTo #LinuxMint #Ppas #StickyNotes #Warpinator
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/install-linux-mint-apps-on-ubuntu-ppa
A Faster Way to Edit Text Files as Root in Ubuntu
Here’s a little time-saver if you (like me) often need to edit text files as root in a graphical app on Ubuntu. Simply go to a terminal and run: sudo apt install nautilus-admin Quit Nautilus and re-open. Henceforth, you can right-click on pretty much any file in the file manager and select “Edit as Administrator” — a bit Windows-y worded, that — to open the file with root permissions in whatever the default/associated app for that type is. And open it as root safely, without inadvertently screwing up the location of any configuration files touched during your session. Is this
#HowTo #Nautilus
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/nautilus-admin-open-file-as-root-ubuntu
Linux Mint 21 Beta is Available to Download
Linux Mint 21 beta is available to download. The milestone is here to help intrepid bug hunters stress-test the next version of the hugely popular Linux distro, which is based on the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. Linux Mint 21 includes a swathe of refreshed components throughout its stack (mostly inherited from Ubuntu) including the Linux kernel 5.15 point release, refreshed graphics drivers, and lower-level tooling and developer library updates. Cinnamon 5.4 is installed as the default desktop environment. This revision includes a couple of significant changes including an updated Javascript interpreter and a reworking of Mint’s Muffin window manager
#Dev #Download #News #Beta #Distros #LinuxMint #LinuxMint21
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/linux-mint-21-beta-released-this-is-whats-new
Gotop is a Cool CLI System Monitor Tool for Linux
I’m a ‘fessed up fan of btop, a colossally cool looking and comprehensive system monitoring utility accessed from the command line. I included it in my list of the best command line tools because I genuinely think it’s one of the best command line tools available. It’s flashy, it’s fast, it’s interactive, you can customise the appearance, disable sections, filter processes speedily, and so on. Thing is this: while all of those bells and whistles are music to my ears they are a bit ‘too much’ for other. So I want(ed an excuse) to highlight another command line system monitor
#Apps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/gotop-is-a-neat-command-line-system-monitor-for-linux
Tidal-HiFi is the Best App for Streaming Tidal Music on Linux
Let me preface this post by stating, somewhat cheekily, that I would rather not use Electron apps where possible. But, in the face of no alternative I can suck it up and make use of ’em 😉. And so it is with Tidal-hifi, an Electron-based (I know, I know) app that is, to my knowledge, the easiest way to stream music from TIDAL on Linux in the service’s Hi-Fi quality (hence the hi-fi name – and TIDAL? That’s the last time I’m capitalising you). Now, ‘easiest’ is an important qualifier in the sentence you just read as there are other
#Apps #News #Appimages #Electron #MusicPlayers #Streaming #Tidal
Papirus Icon Set Updated with 60+ New Icons
Papirus icon theme just got an update adding over 60 new icons, as well revised versions of many existing icons. More details on what's changed, inside.
#Download #News #Themes #EyeCandy #Icons #Papirus
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/papirus-icon-theme-update-july-2022
‘Significant Improvements’ Made to Ubuntu Firefox Snap
Canonical has often talked about how it has improved the startup time of Snap apps yet, for many of us, the improvements remained theoretical.
#Dev #News #Canonical #Firefox #SnapApps #Snaps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/firefox-snap-significant-startup-improvements
Firefox GNOME Theme Now Follows GTK4/libadwaita Styling
Adwaita stans listen up: that exceptional sweet theme pack you can use to make Firefox look like GNOME Web has been updated. And I don’t mean ‘updated’ in the sense it just supports the latest Firefox 102 release – that’s a given. Rather, the Firefox GNOME theme has been updated to follow GTK4/libadwaita styling. Something I know I’ve been waiting for. It means you can very easily make the latest version of the Firefox web browser looks über integrated and ingratiated on the GNOME 42 desktop (well, those GNOME 42 desktops where the default Adwaita theme is in use). Once
#News #Themes #Adwaita #EyeCandy #Firefox #Libadwaita
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/firefox-gnome-theme-libadwaita-update
Check Your Battery’s Health from the Command Line with Battop
I recently came across a cool terminal app that help you check your battery health from the command line. It’s called Battop and it’s open source software written in Rust. I ran into it after I went looking for a GUI battery status tool for Linux similar to CoconutBattery for macOS (it’s a menu-bar app that shows battery health, condition, capacity, temperature, voltage and so on). A lot of the guides and tutorials that walk through how to check battery info on Linux all agree on one thing: use upower. It is a solid recommendation. Not only is upower very
#Apps #HowTo #Battery #Battop #CommandLine #Rust #TerminalApps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/battop-command-line-battery-info-health
