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 
#News #Development #Gnome #Ubuntu25_10 #Xorg_
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
#News #Apps #Gradia #Office&ProductivityApps #Screenshot
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.
#News #FingerprintReader #LinuxMint
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.
#News #Canonical #Firmware #LinuxKernel
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.
#News #Android #Apps #FileTransfers #Packet
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
#News #Bzr #Canonical #Launchpad
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
#News #AppUpdates #ImageWriter #QtApps #RaspberryPi
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/raspberry-pi-imager-1-9-4-released-with-various-changes
Stretch Break Linux App Reminds You to Stop Pixel-Gawping
Stretch Break is a simple reminder app for Linux that prompts you to take a break, helping prevent eye strain and promote healthy screen habits.
#News #Apps #DigitalWellbeing
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/stretch-break-eye-strain-reminder-app-linux-flathub
elementary OS 8 Updates Add New Dock Features + More
The team behind elementary OS recently detailed a number of improvements to recently roll out to users of the distro. Gala, the default window manager used by the Pantheon desktop environment, is described as seeing an “absolutely massive release” fixing scores of issues and plumbing in a new Gesture Controller offering tangible improvements to the way gestures work. Precisely how? Hey: I ain’t the developer! But reading the pull request which adds the changes it sounds like the new Gesture Controller ought to deliver smoother interactions, hard to convey in words, but things like properly calculated deceleration, handling of gesture cancellation and
#News #Distros #Elementary
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/elementary-os-8-recent-updates
Audacious 4.5 Beta Brings New Plugins, Better PipeWire Support
The first beta of Audacious 4.5 offers improved PipeWire support, better Qt/GTK parity, and new plugins and skins.
#News #AppUpdates #Audacious #Pipewire
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/audacious-4-5-beta-improvements
Linux App Release Roundup: May 2025
May saw another sizeable set of Linux app updates, including a big update to system monitor tool Mission Centre and long-awaited version bump to system cleaner BleachBit. We also got new versions of web browsers Mozilla Firefox and Vivaldi; the NordVPN Linux app gained a GUI; and more — but they weren’t the only releases of note. That’s why I do these Linux app release roundups: I like to highlight app updates that didn’t warrant a headline of their own, but are still worth knowing about. As always, if you hear about a notable app update I haven’t covered, tips
#News #AppUpdates #Inkscape #Lrr #Virtualbox
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/linux-app-release-roundup-may-2025
Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based sudo
Ubuntu 25.10 will replace the sudo command with sudo-rs, a new Rust rewrite designed to improve memory safety and security. What does this mean for users?
#News #Rust #Sudo #Ubuntu25_10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-rust-sudo-rs-change
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
In May 2000, the first issue of a brand new Linux magazine hit British newsstands, delivering a monthly mix of news, reviews, interviews, tutorials and learned insight on all things free and open-source — plus that all-important cover-mounted CD/DVD! Now, 25 years later, the final ever issue has gone on sale. Linux Format, a monthly magazine covering Linux and open-source, . Future Plc, the UK-based publisher of Linux Format, hasn’t said why the magazine is closing, but one doesn’t need an Oracular Oriole to divine the reason: print publishing is struggling to survive. The writing is less on the pages
#News #LinuxMagazines
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/linux-format-magazine-closes
Ubuntu Announce New Monthly Snapshot Releases
Ubuntu's announced new monthly snapshot releases. The development builds use new automated release processes, but won't replace stable releases.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-monthly-development-snapshots-announced
Ubuntu Fixes Vanishing ‘Install’ Button Issue in Software Updater
Name: The install button in Software Updater (nee Update Manager). Age: Er, however long it’s been since 2005, when Ubuntu added a GUI software updater. Appearance: Invisible when you need it most! So this bug… If you unchecked every package listed in Software Updater, the Install Now button vanishes completely… Doesn’t sound like a bug… No, because I haven’t finished. If you then re-select any package (because you want to install it), the Install Now button does not reappear, meaning you can’t. You have to restart Software Updater to get it to show up. Perhaps it was upset? I mean, the install button does
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-software-updater-install-button-bug-fixed
Canonical Makes Advanced Intel GPU Support Available on Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users can make use of the Intel Graphics Preview to unlock support for newer Intel GPU features, like faster ray tracing and ML.
#News #Canonical #Intel #Ppas #Ubuntu24_04Lts
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-24-04-intel-battlemage-gpu-support
SuperTuxKart 1.5 Release Candidate Now Available
SuperTuxKart developers announce the first release candidate of SuperTuxKart 1.5, the next major version of the popular, open-source racing game.
#News #Gaming #Supertuxkart
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/supertuxkart-1-5-release-candidate-now-available
Canonical Announce Major Changes to the Ubuntu Summit
Ubuntu Summit 2025 will be hosted in London, UK as Canonical makes big changes to the nature of the event, focusing more on remote participation.
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-summit-25-10-event-date-changes
