ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is a 'fully rebuilt app' with expanded AI tools
A new version of free, open-source productivity suite ONLYOFFICE is out, bringing more than a thousand bug fixes and an expanded set of AI features.
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Linux Mint 27 'Adrien' due this Christmas with MORE new apps
Linux Mint shook up its release schedule this year and now it's shaking up its versioning scheme as well – the next major release won't be Linux Mint 23,
NexPhone, the multi-OS smartphone, delayed until 2027
The multi-OS NexPhone went up for pre-order at the start of 2026, 14 years later than initially planned. Fitting, then, to hear the handset's arrival has
Ubuntu 27.04 codename confirmed as 'Tenacious T-Rex'
Canonical has confirmed the codename of next year's Ubuntu 27.04 release as Tenacious T-Rex. It follows Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray, which is out on 15
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Ubuntu release tech preview of Myna, its AI tool for voice dictation
Canonical announce that Myna, its AI-powered speech-to-text tool for Ubuntu desktop, is available to install as a technology preview.
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Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support
Firefox 158 is now available to download, providing out-of-the-box support for JPEG XL images. JPEG XL is said to have better compression than other image
Ubuntu's App Center makes it easy to install missing media codecs
Ubuntu 26.10's new Add-ons page in App Center can now install restricted media codecs as well as hardware drivers. The new flow should make things simpler
Ubuntu now has official desktop images for RISC-V
Installing the Ubuntu desktop on RISC-V hardware is made easier with 26.10, as Canonical is now building official riscv64 desktop images. Experimental
The Document Foundation gets its own logo after 16 years
The Document Foundation, the non-profit steering the development of LibreOffice, has unveiled a new logo. The change means that, for the first time since
Calibre can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robot
A new update to the Calibre ebook manager is out and it brings more natural sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices, as well as AVIF image support and better
PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop
It was only a matter of time before someone would point AI coding tools Photoshop and get it to build a copy. PhotoCraft is that copy – an open-source,
Ubuntu websites offline due to 'sustained' DDoS attack
Canonical reports a 'sustained distributed denial of service attack' on its websites, leading to outages. It says its teams are working to get them back online.
A pair of flashy-looking weather extensions for GNOME Shell
I revised my list of the best Linux weather apps recently, but I know most people prefer to use panel applets to glean current conditions and future
Ubuntu drops Btrfs, XFS & ZFS boot support with Secure Boot
Canonical has changed how Ubuntu 26.10 boots on system with Secure Boot enabled, in an effort to reduce the attack surface of the boot process.
Scrcpy 5.0 adds hardware decoding for Android mirroring
Scrcpy, the open-source tool for mirroring your Android phone on your desktop, now supports zero-copy hardware decoding in its latest release.
Firefox GNOME theme updated to work with Nova
The unofficial GNOME theme for Firefox has been updated to work with the Firefox 157 release and its newer, rounder Nova theme. It is not a traditional
Hylki is a modern, Rust-based email client for GNOME
Hylki is a Rust-based email client designed for the GNOME desktop with an incredibly amount of customisation packed in. Like Postcard, Convey and Letters,
Play Roblox on Linux without Wine, using Sober
Roblox does not officially support Linux, but Linux users can run using Sober, an unofficial third-party 'port' that works without Wine (hence the name).