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ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is a ‘fully rebuilt app’ with expanded AI tools

Joey Sneddon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:16:11 +0000

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. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors v10.0 is billed as a “fully rebuilt app”, and the developers warn those upgrading from earlier versions that not all of their settings and preferences will transfer over. Notably, its AI integrations are no longer included as a plugin that ships with the app. Inside, AI features in ONLYOFFICE 10.0 are provided via a separate AI Tools add-on. This needs to be downloaded and installed (the app has a flow for that). […]

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Linux Mint 27 ‘Adrien’ due this Christmas with MORE new apps

Joey Sneddon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:09:09 +0000

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, but Linux Mint 27. Releases will now be numbered by year. Linux Mint 27 will be followed by v28, and so on. The release also sees the start of a new series of release codenames. Mint has traditionally used feminine first names, cycling through the alphabet from Linux Mint 1.0 ‘Ada’ in 2006 through to Linux Mint 22.3 ‘Zena’ in 2026. The series returns to ‘A’ with Linux Mint 27 and […]

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NexPhone, the multi-OS smartphone, delayed until 2027

Joey Sneddon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:47:14 +0000

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 been delayed until 2027. Nex Computer CEO Emre Kosmaz says devices won’t begin shipping until March 2027 because of issues with antenna placement and casing issues. Given that it took 14 years for this to go from vapourware to tangible product, I doubt long-time fans of the concept will see a delay from Q3 2026 to Q1 2027 as a comparative blink of the eye. While they sort out the the hardware snags, work […]

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Ubuntu 27.04 codename revealed as ‘Tenacious T-Rex’

Joey Sneddon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:01:31 +0000

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 October, both sequentially and alphabetically. The previous T release was Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr. Quite a contrast in creature between the two, no? As you likely know, every Ubuntu release has an alliterative codename coupling combining an adjective with an animal (or, on rare occasions, a mythological beast like a minotaur, werewolf or jackalope). The first part of the codename is not fluff, but a critical label used to distinguish and keep the backend […]

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Ubuntu releases tech preview of Myna, its AI voice dictation tool

Joey Sneddon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:27:22 +0000

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

Joey Sneddon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:19:56 +0000

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 formats, including WebP, PNG and regular ol’ JPEG. It supports wider colour gamut, HDR and high bit-depth, as well as animation, alpha channels and lossless and progressive encoding. Mozilla has spent several months testing JPEG XL support in Firefox, providing an opt-in toggle to try it out via the browser’s Labs page. Other changes and fixes Firefox’s Smart Window, the AI-powered browsing mode that uses a cloud-based provider like OpenAI and Alibaba to help you […]

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Ubuntu’s App Center makes it easy to install missing media codecs

Joey Sneddon — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:41:15 +0000

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 for those who don’t select the opt-in to “install restricted codecs” in the Ubuntu OS installer (not everyone thinks they need it) and for those who install without an active internet connection, as that box is greyed out. While apt makes it easy to get the relevant codecs if you know the right gstreamer-* , App Center doesn’t show system or library packages in search results (and “media codecs” is a bit of a […]

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Ubuntu now has official desktop images for RISC-V

Joey Sneddon — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:09:00 +0000

Installing the Ubuntu desktop on RISC-V hardware is made easier with 26.10, as Canonical is now building official riscv64 desktop images. Experimental versions of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release are out for testing on a SpacemiT K3 – the board Canonical has been working on with SpacemiT. One ISO ships the standard GNOME desktop, and the other is built around Xubuntu minimal. Canonical’s Valentin Haudiquet says both of the ISOs are “experimental” and “carry no official support” yet. They won’t work flawlessly and do contain some issues hat be addressed in the ‘final’ versions that arrives on 15 October 2026. […]

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The Document Foundation gets its own logo after 16 years

Joey Sneddon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:04:59 +0000

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 its inception in 2010, TDF no longer shares the same logotype and wordmark as LibreOffice. “The Document Foundation” is now the sole wordmark, written in a different font, Inter, and a refreshed set of brand colours complement it. Unveiling the design, TDF’s Italo Vignoli made the case for a decoupling of the two brands, noting “the foundation speaks as an institution, not as a software project” whose work “extends well beyond the product” that it’s known […]

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Calibre can now read ebooks aloud without sounding like a robot

Joey Sneddon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:27:21 +0000

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 handling of PDFs that put text in columns. Calibre v9.16 adds support for Kokoro, an open-weight TTS model, to its Read Aloud feature (which to state the bleedin’ obvious, will read the content of books to you). The new voices are sound to sound ‘much more natural’, especially in English. Kokoro voices aren’t preinstalled or included in Calibre itself. You choose one via the backend picker in the Read aloud configuration panel and […]

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PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop

Joey Sneddon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:25:07 +0000

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, cross-platform image editor written in Rust. The app is part of several creative tools created by the ArtCraft project, lead by Brandon Thomas, the former CEO of storyteller.ai. ArtCraft bill the app as “clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop”, and so swerve any copyright issues as it’s not reverse engineering anything (that isn’t publicly documented) – words FOSS fans will to cheered to hear. Features-wise, PhotoCraft is already well stocked despite being in […]

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Ubuntu websites offline due to ‘sustained’ DDoS attack [Resolved]

Joey Sneddon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:08:39 +0000

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.

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A pair of flashy-looking weather extensions for GNOME Shell

Joey Sneddon — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:33:22 +0000

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 forecast data. There’s no drought in weather extensions for GNOME Shell. All kinds – some like Weather or Not show a simple label on panel, others dish out reams of meteorological data in a dropdown of varying designs (and, in a few cases, vertical length). I’ve seen a flurry of newer weather extensions for GNOME Shell emerge in recent months. The searing heatwave that spread the globe this year may have had developers […]

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Ubuntu 26.10 drops Btrfs, XFS & ZFS /boot with Secure Boot

Joey Sneddon — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:15:54 +0000

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.

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Scrcpy 5.0 adds hardware decoding for Android mirroring

Joey Sneddon — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:24:29 +0000

Scrcpy, the open-source tool for mirroring your Android phone on your desktop, now supports zero-copy hardware decoding in its latest release.

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Firefox GNOME theme updated to work with Nova

Joey Sneddon — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:27:31 +0000

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 Firefox theme (like the ones you can install from the Mozilla Add-ons site) but, to quote its GitHub page, a “bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME’s native apps” – an excellent job it does at it too. With Nova now rolled out, the theme team working on the unofficial Adwaita-esque garb needed to update to account for CSS class changes and new widget style Nova adds in newer […]

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Hylki is a modern, Rust-based email client for GNOME

Joey Sneddon — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:59:35 +0000

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, Hylki is part of the new(ish) Linux mail clients aiming to serve as a modern Geary-like alternative to more powerful email clients Thunderbird and Evolution. GTK4/libadwaita interface? Check. 3 column vertical layout? Built around conversations? Check. Oh, and ‘this wouldn’t exist without AI coding tools?’ Check – I come to that aspect further down. On the website, Hylki describes itself as “fast to open, effortless to read, and private by default” – but is it? Modern […]

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Play Roblox on Linux without Wine, using Sober

Joey Sneddon — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:59:00 +0000

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). I know; this isn’t a ‘game’ most of you are itching to play. Roblox users are mostly under 16, access it via mobiles and have an unhealthy interest in Robux, the in-game virtual currency. But you may – as I – have snotty relatives who demand to play it on your laptop because their tablet needs charging… Performance ‘the same or better’ than Windows Sober is a ‘specialised runtime just for Roblox’s code’ made by the Vinegar project, […]

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