Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship with the Linux 6.17 Kernel
Day-by-day we’re learning more on what to expect in Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’, the next short-term release of Ubuntu due for release in October. Today, Canonical’s Kleber Souza, member of the Ubuntu Kernel Team, confirmed the plan is to ship the Linux 6.17 kernel in Ubuntu 25.10 – barring any unforeseen upstream hiccups, of course. As we’re yet to see the release of the Linux 6.15 kernel, and 6.16 is yet to enter development, committing to a version so far out may seem a bit optimistic. But it tracks. Last year Canonical made a major change to its kernel cadence 
#News #LinuxKernel #Ubuntu25_10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-will-use-linux-6-17-kernel
GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS
GNOME is looking to jettison X11 session support this year, and the knock-on effects stand to affect Ubuntu ahead of its next long-term support release.
#News #Gnome #Ubuntu26_04Lts #Wayland
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-dropping-x11-support-ubuntu-impact
High Tide (Linux TIDAL App) Improvements
It’s been a few months since I spotlighted High Tide, a promising third-party TIDAL client for Linux desktops that’s under active development. I thought I’d recap some of its recent improvements. Before I do: keep in mind High Tide is still in development. There is no stable release, and many features are missing or a WIP. It’s also not a local music player; you need to be a paid subscriber of the TIDAL music streaming service to use this. It is a solid (and relatively reliable) alternative to the official TIDAL web app though, and installing it on Ubuntu isn’t
#News #AppUpdates #Tidal
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/high-tide-linux-tidal-client-updates
Fender’s New Music Creation Software Supports Linux
Fender Studio is a new free cross-platform DAW for Linux, backed by the iconic instrument maker. Details on what it can do inside.
#News #AudioApps #Daw #FenderStudio
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/fender-studio-linux-audio-recording-app
Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
Well here’s a turn up: Microsoft just released the source code for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its nifty fully open source after almost a decade of development. The tech giant announced the news at its BUILD 2025 event, where it made some other open-source related announcements, including its own CLI text editor called Edit, and the code for WSL is already up on GitHub for interested devs to grapple with. For those not familiar with it, WSL is a specialised virtualisation setup that lets Windows users run Linux distributions (like Ubuntu) inside of Windows, with tight system, software
#News #Microsoft #Wsl
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/microsoft-open-sources-windows-subsystem-for-linux
Vivaldi 7.4 Update Adds Keyboard Shortcut Controls
A new version of the Vivaldi web browser is available to download, carrying changes said to make our collective “everyday browsing smoother, faster, and just a little more delightful.” How does Vivaldi 7.4 make browsing the increasingly gamified, algorithmically manipulative and Ai slopified modern web more ‘delightful’? Shortcuts. More specifically, Vivaldi 7.4 gives you the ability to “fine-tune” how shortcuts behave on a per-site basis. If you want a website’s shortcuts to take priority over Vivaldi’s, you can. “It’s about putting you in control, making sure your shortcuts work where and when you need them most”, says Jon von Tetzchner,
#News #AppUpdates #Vivaldi #WebBrowsers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/vivaldi-7-4-released-with-stuff
elementary OS Preview Some Cool Upcoming Features
The elementary OS 8.0.1 release back in March brought an appreciable set of improvements with it, including a much-improved Files app, but as ever in development: the work never stops! Project founder, Danielle Foré, recently recapped a few smaller features that have been issued to users of the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution as software updates, including: If you run elementary OS 8.x, install your updates and eat your greens, you should be benefitting from the changes listed above (if you don’t have them, go update to get ’em). But Danielle also gave us an early-look at an exciting new app and
#News #Distros #Elementary #Pantheon
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/elementary-os-preview-upcoming-features
Ubuntu 25.10 to Include New Image Viewer, Terminal Apps
Ubuntu’s “Questing Quokka” has begun its journey to release land, and it seems it’s off with fresh provisions – devs just announced plans to ship a pair new apps in the 25.10 release out October. Loupe is to replace Eye of GNOME as the default image viewer in Ubuntu 25.10, while Ptyxis is set to supplant GNOME Terminal as default terminal emulator. Neither app swap is a surprise, though I should caution that neither are a given yet. The nature of development is such that intentions can get waylaid by realities as testing throws up issues, incompatibilities, and other inconsistencies
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-to-include-new-image-viewer-terminal-apps
Firefox Now Lets You Set a Custom New Tab Background Image or Colour
A number of new personalisation features have been added to the Firefox New Tab page in the past year, including the ability to pick a background image from a small set of hand-picked pics and solid colours. Pleasant though those curated images are, they’re not to everyone’s tastes. Which is Mozilla is working on a couple of enhancements – all of which are available to “test” in the latest stable release (Firefox 138 at the time of writing). The big change is that you can now “upload your own image” to use as a background for the New Tab page
#News #Development #Firefox #Mozilla
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/firefox-now-lets-you-set-a-custom-new-tab-background-image
Canonical Will Donate $120k to Open Source Projects This Year
Canonical commits to donating $120k to the open source developers building the projects and tools that help power the Ubuntu ecosystem.
#News #Canonical #Github
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/canonical-commits-funds-open-source-devs
NordVPN Linux App Now Has a GUI
NordVPN today announced a major update to its Linux app, adding a much-requested GUI front-end that makes it easier to control, configure and monitor connections. Linux users have been able to use an official, comprehensive command-line interface for NordVPN for many years. Today’s announcement of a graphical user-interface option sees the company widen access to its offerings to Linux users of all experience levels. Now, a Linux GUI is available, providing, NordVPN say, “visually rich elements and ease of use without compromising advanced features. With just a few clicks, users can connect to a server, manage preferences, and monitor their
#News #AppUpdates #Nordvpn #Security #Vpn
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/nordvpn-linux-app-update-adds-gui
Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon
If you’ve been patiently waiting to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience is about to pay off. Ubuntu developers were forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release due to a number of major bugs affecting users across different Ubuntu flavours. Some users were left with broken desktops (environments, that is – upgrading wasn’t melting PC towers); upgrading was removing third-party packages it shouldn’t have, while many Qt-flavour users couldn’t upgrade using the GUI tool due to missing dependencies. This is why Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades are not working at present (unless manually forced
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-04-upgrades-resume-after-bug-fixes
Kagi’s Orion Browser Linux Port Uses GTK4/libadwaita
I reported a few months back Kagi, the company behind the paid, private and privacy-focused search engine of the same time, is porting its Orion web browser to Linux – now we have our first early look at how its Linux GUI is shaping up. A recent development screenshot of Orion’s WIP Linux build shared by Kagi devs—pictured in the hero image above—reveals that Orion for Linux will use GTK4/libadwaita for its GUI. This is a logical choice: GTK4 is a modern, widely-used toolkit across Linux distros, with consistency at its core. And libadwaita provides widgets and capabilities that should
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/kagi-orion-browser-linux-port-uses-gtk4-libadwaita
KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Update Available to Kubuntu Users
If you’re running Kubuntu 25.04 and want the latest fixes the KDE Plasma 6.3.5 release, you can use the Kubuntu backports PPA to get ’em. KDE Plasma 6.3.5 popped out a few weeks back, serving as the fifth and (likely) final bug-fix release prior to the next major release, KDE Plasma 6.4. Over the weekend, Kubuntu developers announced that the Kubuntu backports PPA has added the requisite packages for Kubuntu 25.04. Thus, Kubuntu users can add (or enable) the PPA to get the update now, rather than wait for the update to filter out through the usual software channels. The
#News #Kde #KdePlasma6 #Kubuntu #Ppas
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/kde-plasma-6-3-5-upgrade-ubuntu-25-04
DeepComputing Unveil RISC-V AI PC Running Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu is one of the leading Linux distributions for RISC-V hardware thanks to Canonical’s strategic partnerships with companies like DeepComputing – who just announced their powerful new RISC-V AI PC running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC is built around the new company’s new RISC-V Mainboard II, designed for use in the Framework 13″ or 14.2″ laptops. Owning a Framework laptop is not a requirement since a nifty enclosure allows the mainboard to be used like a regular PC. The DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC—apologies for the caps, its how it’s stylised—uses ESWIN’s advanced RISC-V AI SoC EIC7702X—sorry for even more
#Hardware #Ai/Ml #DeepComputing #Framework #Risc-V #Ubuntu24_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/deepcomputings-risc-v-ai-pc-with-ubuntu-24-04
GNOME Replaces Totem Video Player with Showtime
Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have cast a new video player for a staring role in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream change now merged, the aged GTK3 video player Totem has been replaced by newer, fresher and modern GTK4/libadwaita app Showtime in the GNOME Core Apps lineup. Like its predecessor Totem, Showtime’s user-facing name in GNOME 49 will morph into the generic moniker of Video Player (though I’d wager most of us will still call it by its codename, the same way we refer to Files as Nautilus). Showtime may be new in GNOME’s Core
#News #Gnome #Gnome49 #MediaPlayers #Showtime
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-49-replaces-totem-video-player-with-showtime
Easily Toggle Ubuntu’s New Wellbeing Reminders On/Off
The Wellbeing controls available in Ubuntu 25.04 make it easy to get periodic prompts to move your butt or look away from your screen — you might not want them enabled all the time, though. Wellbeing controls were one of the flagship features of GNOME 48. As well as screen time monitoring (with controls to set a screen time limit, and turn the display greyscale when it’s reached), you can enable reminders to take a break and move. Alerts telling you to get up and move may be helpful during the day, but at nighttime when you’re, say, engrossed in
#News #Gnome48 #GnomeExtensions #QuickSettings #Ubuntu25_04
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-wellbeing-toggle-gnome-extension
Linux Mint 22.2 Modernises its Default Theme
More details on the makeup of the upcoming Linux Mint 22.2 release have been shared, including its codename (for those who track those). Linux Mint 22.2, which is expected to be released in July or August, is named ‘Zara’, continuing project lead Clem’s codename convention of using female names in (somewhat) alphabetical order. I say ‘somewhat’ since Linux Mint 22.1 release was ‘Xia‘, yet Linux Mint 22.2 is ‘Zara‘ – not sure what Yara, Yasmin, Yvette, Yvonne and Yelena did wrong. Perhaps Clem went a dodgy date one time… It’s not the name of the the next release most Linux
#News #Cinnamon #EyeCandy #Libadwaita #LinuxMint
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/linux-mint-22-2-default-theme-changes
Ubuntu 25.10 Daily Builds Now Available to Download
Get early access to Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' through official daily builds. Download, test and contribute to Ubuntu's development before its October release.
#News #Ubuntu25_10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-daily-builds-download-testing
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Gets a Price Cut
Raspberry Pi has reduced the price on all 4GB and 8GB Compute Module 4 boards by $5-10, making embedded projects more affordable to try out.
#Hardware #News #RaspberryPi
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4-price-cut
