When Ubuntu 25.04 made Papers its default PDF viewer rather than keep shipping Evince, it did so knowing that the expectation was that upstream GNOME would do the same — now it has. The GNOME 49 Alpha release will ship Papers as a GNOME Core App, replacing Evince (also, as...
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Published on: 2025-07-03
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Image, PDF and other supported file thumbnails will once again appear on the (literal) Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop, after nearly a year of not showing up. According to a bug report filed in May last year, file thumbnail previews do not show on the Ubuntu 24.04 desktop itself, appearing only...
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Published on: 2025-07-03
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Ubuntu
You don’t need to be a professional photographer (protographer?) to find photo management software digiKam helpful, as the canny crop of new “AI” powered features on offer in the latest release proves. Note: this is a news item covering what’s new in the digiKam 8.7.0 specifically. It is not an...
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Published on: 2025-07-01
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Ubuntu
Canonical confirm a technical shift for Ubuntu on RISC-V. With Ubuntu 25.10, it will only support hardware meeting the RVA23 profile spec. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission....
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Published on: 2025-06-30
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Ubuntu