PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 Now Supports Raspberry Pi 5
RPCS3 is an open-source emulator (and debugger) for the Sony PlayStation 3, making it possible for users to play and debug PlayStation 3 games on non-PS3 hardware, like Intel/AMD desktop PCs and laptops running Windows, macOS, or Linux. Now, RPCS3 is available for the Raspberry Pi 5 too. A major new version of of RPCS3 was released this week adding native ARM64 support for Linux, macOS on Apple Silicon, and (although not ready yet) Windows on ARM. “How far can we challenge the limits of emulating the console known for being the most resource demanding to emulate still 18 years 
#News #Gaming #Playstation3 #RaspberryPi
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-now-supports-raspberry-pi-5
Raspberry Pi 500 & Official 15.6 Monitor Announced
Raspberry Pi today announced the Raspberry Pi 500, an updated version of its keyboard PC, this one powered by the Raspberry Pi 5. And it’s also announced a device many won’t have expected: an official monitor! This year, Raspberry Pi has announced 20+ new or updated products, ranging from hardware add-ons like HATs and AI camera, to official SD cards and SSDs, to new devices like the Compute Module 5 and Pico 2 – and more! Is there anything left to announce?! Well, rumour has it: yes! While company may be done for this year, something new is expected to
#Hardware #News #RaspberryPi
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/raspberry-pi-500-official-monitor-announced
OBS Studio Update Adds New Features, Drops 22.04 Support
For high-quality screen recording and streaming few apps comes close to the power and versatility as the cross-platform and open-source OBS Studio – and a new version is out. OBS Studio 31.0 intros a slate of new features and capabilities. Among them, the long-awaited addition of preview scrollbars, making it easier to move around previews without needing to hold the spacebar and click, and a zoom/scale indicator so users can tell when the viewpoint is zoomed/moved. Elsewhere, OBS Studio 31.0 adds a new background blur filter – but it only works on systems equipped with a compatible NVIDIA RTX GPU
#News #AppUpdates #Gaming #ObsStudio #Ubuntu22_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/obs-studio-31-background-blur-feature
Linux 6.12 Kernel Confirmed as Long-Term Support
Last month’s Linux 6.12 kernel was a big update filled with new features, hardware support, and performance tune-ups. Now, it’s just gotten even sweeter: it’s an LTS! Those au fait with kernel development won’t be surprised by this news since, typically, the final stable Linux kernel release of the year becomes an LTS. But nothing is ever official until it’s official — and now it’s official! Kernel dev Greg Kroah-Hartman confirmed Linux 6.12’s LTS status in a message on the Linux Kernel mailing list (LKML) about an older kernel version, stating his sufficiently succinct style: Anyway, please move off to
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/linux-6-12-kernel-is-long-term-support
COSMIC Alpha 4 Adds New Settings, Variable Refresh Rate Support
Development on COSMIC, a new open-source desktop environment created by developers a Linux-based hardware company System76, continues at pace, with a 4th alpha now available. System76 said new alpha releases of the COSMIC DE would roughly appear once a month (give or take), a cadence that enables them flesh out the features planned for its first stable release and get feedback from users, developers, and distribution packagers. Alongside the new alpha is a freshly-spun ISO of Pop!_OS 24.04 (Alpha), making it easy to check out the changes for yourself on a spare partition, USB drive, or virtual machine. But the
#News #CosmicDe #System76
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/cosmic-desktop-alpha-4-changes
Mozilla Formally Unveils its Rawr-Some New Logo
Mozilla has finally announced its new branding, describing its first refresh in over a decade as not merely ‘a facelift’ but an effort to lay the foundation for the company’s next 25 years. Now, if you read this blog regularly you’ll already know what the Mozilla’s new branding looks like. I first reported on it back in August, and then again in October when a reader tipped me to the design agency Mozilla had contracted to undertake the work and I shared some of the cool animated mascot art created for it. As may be clear by this point: I
#News #Mozilla
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/mozilla-new-brand-identity-unveiled
How to Enable Tab Groups in Firefox
Among the new features Mozilla is working on for Firefox are tab groups, a nifty productivity feature already present in many other web browsers, including Google Chrome and Vivaldi. This isn’t news, of course. Mozilla laid out the major new features it was bringing to users earlier this year. Other long-requested features including a native profile management system, vertical tabs option, and a revamped URL bar thing. Firefox tab groups isn’t yet ready for prime time, but if you’re using the latest stable version (Firefox 133 at the time I write this) you can manually activate tab groups to try
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/how-to-enable-firefox-tab-groups
Flexbar Brings Apple’s Touch Bar Back from the Dead
A new crowdfunding project aims to revive the (oft-derided) MacBook Pro Touch Bar, this time as a standalone device that work with Windows, macOS and, potentially, Linux too. It’s called Flexbar, and it’s currently asking for cash on Kickstarter. Now, I don’t like writing about crowdfunding projects generally. If I do, they need to offer something novel, or have a track record. Flexbar is novel, but the campaign has a few red flags that make me suspicious it will ever exist – more on that in a mo’. If you’re don’t know your Apple from your Orange Pis, the Touch
#Hardware #News #Crowdfunding #Kickstarter #Touchscreen
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/flexbar-macbook-pro-touch-bar-standalone
Cinnamon Desktop 6.4 Released with New Look, Native Night Light
A new version of the Cinnamon desktop environment has been tagged for release – a sure-fire sign that the Linux Mint 22.1 beta is on the way! As the flagship desktop of Linux Mint, Cinnamon 6.4 will come preinstalled in Linux Mint 22.1 when it’s released at the end of December (though should beta testing reveal issues the date could slip into early 2025). But this post isn’t about Linux Mint 22.1, it’s about Cinnamon. Linux Mint develops and maintains Cinnamon but the desktop can be installed on just about every Linux distribution out there, including Ubuntu (which also has
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/cinnamon-6-4-desktop-new-features-theme
Discord Screen Share Sound Finally Works on Linux
If you’re an avid user of the Discord Linux app and been annoyed that screen share audio doesn’t work, there’s good news: it now does! The latest version of Discord for Linux at long last includes the option to ‘share system audio’ when setting up a screen share to stream in chats or channels. Though it works on Windows and macOS, Discord has been silent on when it plans to support screen audio sharing on Linux – so much so it’s been the top feature request on the Discord feedback tracker for years. But this week Linux user Aden Y
#News #AppUpdates #BugFixes #Discord
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/discord-screen-share-audio-support-for-linux
Calibre 7.22: Better eReader Support, New Restart Option
Calibre 7.22 is out — and yes, I’m making extra special effort to not mangle the version number this release as I always seem to insert an extra period in the string whenever I cover the the app! Unwieldy looking though it can seem, the open-source Calibre ebook manager remains unsurpassed in terms of features, tools, and capabilities. Add in the fact it’s cross-platform too, and it’s easy to see why it remains a go-to for avid e-bookworms. Calibre 7.22 builds on recent feature additions, adding a new option to set the position of the control bar when using ‘Read
#News #AppUpdates #Calibre
Mozilla Announce Smaller, Faster Browser Downloads For Linux
Firefox fans on Linux will enjoy smaller download sizes and faster decompressing when using the official binary builds from the Mozilla website. The browser maker today announced its switching to the tar.xz format to distribute its Linux builds, which uses the more efficient LZMA compression algorithm to deliver smaller downloads and faster extraction times. Most Linux users get Firefox updates as a regular software update from a distro-maintained repo, e.g., a Firefox Snap on Ubuntu, a Firefox DEB on Linux Mint and Pop!_OS, etc. But Mozilla say by switching from tar,bz2 to tar.xz Linux users will enjoy both faster downloads
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/firefox-linux-tar-xz-switch
elementary OS 8 Released, This is What’s New
Big day for fans of indie distros as elementary OS 8.0 is now available to download. A major update, elementary OS 8 rides atop the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, is powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel (with access to newer kernels via Ubuntu’s HWE), and sees a swathe of improvement made to both the Pantheon desktop environment and core apps. Of the release, elementary says it’s focused on several key areas, including the creation of a new secure session (which is not default), improving multitasking with a new dock, and “empowering our diverse community through inclusive design”. I run through a
#News #Distros #Elementary
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/elementary-os-8-released-this-is-whats-new
Firefox 133 Released with Faster Access to Tabs on Other Devices
Mozilla Firefox 133 was released today, furnished with some new features and UI refinements long-time users are sure to appreciate. In the 4 weeks since Firefox 132 brought us certificate compression, tweaked the way the ‘copy link without site tracking’ surfaces, and flicked the switch on hardware acceleration of SVG primitives in WebRender, Mozilla’s developers have added the following: Of these, the tab overview menu option is the one most easily spotted (assuming you’re signed into your Mozilla account and you use the browser on other devices). Elsewhere, Firefox 133 adds Bounce Tracking Protection to the ‘strict’ mode in Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP).
#News #AppUpdates #Firefox
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/firefox-133-whats-changed
Warp, the AI-Powered Terminal App, Relaxes Its Login Requirement
If you were put off trying the Warp terminal app on Ubuntu (or another Linux distro) due to the account and login requirement, there’s good news. The team behind the Rust-based, AI-infused terminal tool has relented on the requirement that users sign-up for and log in with a Warp account before they can run a command. As of this week, anyone can download Warp for for macOS or Linux (it’s coming to Windows soon) and access “all of the core features with a preview of more advanced features” without an account, and without logging in. “We still think the
#News #Ai/Ml #Rust #TerminalApps #Warp
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/warp-ai-terminal-login-change
Want to Install Snap Apps in Linux Mint? Here’s How
Snap is Canonical’s universal package format for Linux. It lets developers build their software once for users across multiple Linux distributions to use. At least, that’s the theory. In reality, few Linux distributions outside of the Ubuntu ecosphere support Snaps out of the box. Most do carry the underlying Snap daemon package (snapd) in their repositories, making it possible for users who want to use snaps, to do so. Linux Mint takes a different approach, however. Ubuntu-based it may be, inheriting the Ubuntu repos and benefitting from ongoing bug, security, and other patches from Canonical’s engineers, but Mint has a
#HowTo #LinuxMint #Snaps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/how-to-install-snaps-in-linux-mint
FreeCAD 1.0 Released After 22 Years in Development
Good things come to those who wait, and for 3D modelling professionals with a preference for open-source software, the wait for the FreeCAD 1.0 release has been a long one – over 22 years! At long last, this free, open-source alternative to expensive engineering software like Autodesk Fusion360 has emerged from development to issue its first, formal stable release. A major milestone, all told. Not that the lack of a 1.0 release had put people off using it. FreeCAD is in wide use by professionals, students, and creative 3D printers, across Linux and beyond. I even recall mentioning it a
#News #AppUpdates #Cad #Freecad
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/freecad-1-0-released-open-source-cad-software
Ubuntu? That’s a Bullfinch, Not an Oriole
Something a little lighthearted (unless you’re pedantic about ornithology, in which case don’t be so chirpy) it seems a Bullfinch found its way into Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’. Perhaps someone left a window open. If you’ve upgraded to Ubuntu 24.10 you may have noticed that a large number of the supplementary (i.e., non-default) backgrounds feature orioles. Or, as it turns out, what the creator thinks is an oriole. According to a bug recently filed on Launchpad, home of Ubuntu development, one of the wallpapers shipping in Oracular Oriole that is named as being of an oriole, isn’t: When I choose
#News #Random #Ubuntu24_10 #Wallpapers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/ubuntu-bullfinch-oriole-wallpaper-bug
Blender 4.3 Brings Hardware Accelerated Ray-Tracing to Linux
Feeling creative? After you’ve scanned out slew of changes shipping in the new Blender 4.3 release, you’ll find it hard not to! Blender 4.3 is the latest stable release of the phenomenally powerful open-source 3D modelling software. Its creators say the update builds on the Blender 4.2 LTS release earlier this year with “improvements to existing tools, performance enhancements, and the foundations that will shape the years to come.” I’ll recap the key changes in a second, but first I want to highlight a couple of big things that Linux users will be interested to know… Blender 4.3: Big Linux
#News #AppUpdates #Blender #Vulkan
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/blender-4-3-brings-hardware-accelerated-ray-tracing-to-linux
Ubuntu 25.04 Daily Builds Now Available to Download
A sure-fire way to indicate that development is kicking in to gear, Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds are now available to download. Development formally began on Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ last month, but Ubuntu 25.04 is due for release on April 17, 2025. If you’re wondering what sort of new features Ubuntu 25.04 may offer, these daily builds give everyone ample chance to find out, first-hand. Not that, right now, there’s anything new to see. There’s plans for a new document viewer app in Ubuntu 25.04, but it’s not yet included; Linux 6.14 kernel – yes, 6.14 – is earmarked for
#News #Ubuntu25_04
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/download-ubuntu-25-04-daily-build-iso
