How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’...
How to Fix Spotify ‘No PubKey’ Error on Ubuntu
Do you use the official Spotify DEB on Ubuntu (or an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution like Linux Mint)? If so, you’ll be used to receiving updates to the Spotify Linux client direct from the official Spotify APT repo, right alongside all your other DE...
Papirus Icon Theme Updated
Fans of the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops will be happy hear a new version is now available to download. Paprius‘s first update in 2025 improves support for KDE Plasma 6 by adding Konversation, KTorrent and RedShift tray icons, KDE and Plasma...
Linux Icon Pack Papirus Gets First Update in 8 Months
Fans of the Papirus icon theme for Linux desktops will be happy hear a new version is now available to download. Paprius‘s first update in 2025 improves support for KDE Plasma 6 by adding Konversation, KTorrent and RedShift tray icons, KDE and Plasma...
GNOME Introduces New UI & Monospace Adwaita Fonts
GNOME has announced a change to its default UI and monospace fonts ahead of the upcoming GNOME 48 release — a typographic turnabout that won’t impact Ubuntu users directly, though. Should you feel a sense of deja vu here it’s because GNOME triall...
Mozilla’s Nifty AI Detector Add-On For Firefox
Want to know if something you’re reading online was written by a real human or spat out by a large language model (LLM) pretending to be one? Though not foolproof, Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may can give you an indication. ...
Try Mozilla’s New AI Detector Add-On for Firefox
Want to find out if the text you’re reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model (LLM) trying to sound like one? Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may can help give you an indication. Similar t...
High Tide is a Promising New TIDAL Client for Linux
Linux users hunting for a native client to stream music from TIDAL will want to keep an eye on a promising new open-source app called High Tide. High Tide is an unofficial but native Linux client for the TIDAL music streaming service. It’s written in...
High Tide is a Promising New Linux TIDAL Client
Linux users hunting for a native client to stream music from TIDAL will want to keep an eye on a promising new open-source app called High Tide. High Tide is an unofficial but native Linux client for the TIDAL music streaming service. It’s written in...
Thunderbird Email Client Moving to Monthly Feature Drops
The Thunderbird email client is making its monthly ‘release channel’ builds the default download starting in March. “We’re excited to announce that starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Release channel will be the defau...
Thunderbird Moves to Monthly Updates from March 2025
The Thunderbird email client is making its monthly ‘release channel’ builds the default download starting in March. “We’re excited to announce that starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Release channel will be the defau...
Confirmed: Ubuntu Dev Discussions Moving to Matrix
Ubuntu’s key developers have agreed to switch to Matrix as the primary platform for real-time development communications involving the distro. From March, Matrix will replace IRC as the place where critical Ubuntu development conversations, requests,...
Pinta 3.0 Beta Released with New GTK4/Libadwaita UI
A new beta release of open source graphics editing app Pinta is available for testing. Pinta 3.0 (beta) gives fans of this cross-platform raster image editor, which is directly inspired by the iconic Paint.NET Windows app, an early opportunity to try o...
New Pebble Smartwatch Planned After Google Open Sources the OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news if you did: Google today open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it used (minus proprietary bits) having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in 202...
Pebble Smartwatch Returns After Google Open Sources OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news: Google has open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it ran on (minus some vital proprietary bits like the Bluetooth stack), having acquired Pebble’s assets...
New Pebble Smartwatch Planned After Google Open Source OS
Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news if you did: Google today open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it used (minus proprietary bits) having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in 202...
How to utilize CPU offloads to increase storage efficiency
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) When storing large amounts of data, the cost ($) to store each gigabyte (GB) is the typical measure used to gauge the efficiency of the storage system. The biggest driver of storage cost is the...
Varia Download Manager Adds yt-dlp Support
A new version of the Varia download manager was released at the weekend – an update described by its developers as probably the “biggest since the first release”. I’ve written about Varia before and, as I said then, I appreciate that the idea o...
Ubuntu 24.04.2 Arrives Feb 13 with Linux Kernel 6.11
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is scheduled for release on February 13th – in time for Valentines Day, aww. Canonical’s Florent Jacquet shares the date on the Ubuntu Developer mailing list today along with a note to developers to be mindful of their package up...
Vivaldi 7.1 Delivers Speed Dial Buffs, New Search Engine
Vivaldi web browser has just released its first major update of the year – a corker it is, too! Fans of the Chromium-based browser—though Vivaldi Technologies doesn’t appear to be part of the new Linux Foundation-led Supporters of Chromium Browse...
