MPV, the popular free open-source media player, announced new 0.38.0 release few days ago! The release improved --deinterlace with auto value, and --deinterlace-field-parity to automatically turn on deinterlacing. It can improve the overall clarity, sharpness of the video, by converting ...
Ubuntu 24.04, code-name Noble Numbat, is finally available for Beta testing after a week of delay. Ubuntu 24.04 is long term support (LTS) release with 5-year of support. By enabling Ubuntu Pro, user can get 7 years more security updates. ...
After more than a year of development, Kodi media player 21, code-name “Omega”, is finally released! Kodi 21 is a new major release. It’s now based on FFmpeg 6.0, that features Radiance HDR image support, VAAPI decoding and QSV decoding ...
The Beta release of Ubuntu 24.04, Noble Numbat, has been pushed to April 11, 2024, one week after the previous date (April 4, 2024)! It’s because an attack publicly disclosed on March 29, 2024. An attacker using the name “Jia ...
Flowblade video editor released new major 2.14 version few days ago with exciting new features! Flowblade is a free open-source multi-track non-linear video editor for Linux, that features built-in G’Mic Tool, batch encoding, and GPU accelerated (Vaapi and NVENC) video ...
The popular Kodi media player (formerly XBMC) finally discontinued its official PPA for Ubuntu users. Meaning that there’s no official Kodi .deb package any more. Users are recommended to use Flatpak package instead! Ubuntu PPA is a popular way to ...
Fedora Linux announced the Beta release of the next version 40 one day ago on Tuesday! Fedora is a popular free open-source Linux Distribution owned by Red Hat, which acts as an upstream release for CentOS Stream and RHEL. It ...
Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, announced new 4.1 major release this Tuesday. Blender 4.1 introduced new geometry nodes, including Index Switch, Musgrave, Split to Instance, Sort Elements, Rotate Rotation, Active Camera. It replaces mesh “Auto Smooth” option ...
Stellarium, the free planetarium app, release version 24.1 a day ago. Stellarium is a free open-source desktop app for Linux, Windows, and MacOS. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars ...
GNU Emacs editor released new 29.3 as an emergency bug-fix release this Sunday. The new release intended to fix several security vulnerabilities described below: Arbitrary Lisp code is no longer evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This is ...
Dash-to-panel, the popular GNOME Shell Extension, got a update few days ago with the latest GNOME 46 support. For those who don’t know about dash-to-panel, it’s a free open-source extension for GNOME, which replaces the default panel and dock with ...
Kooha, the small free open-source screen recording app, release new 2.3.0 version a few days ago. Kooha is one of the first apps support Wayland, the default display server in recent Ubuntu and Fedora workstation releases. Since GNOME’s built-in screenshot/screencast ...
GNOME Desktop considers adding a new core application for audio playback! It’s Decibels, a basic free open-source audio player that is supposed to fill the gap of GNOME currently not having a Core app that is designed to open single ...
GNOME, the popular Linux desktop environment, announced new 46 stable release this Wednesday! The new GNOME 46, code-name“Kathmandu”, will be default desktop for Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40 planned for next month, and optional for Arch, Manjaro, etc. The Files, ...
Oracle announced the release of JDK 22 GA this Tuesday. “JDK 22 delivers 12 enhancements that are significant enough to warrant their own JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), including seven preview features and one incubator feature. They cover improvements to the ...