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A GNOME Shell extension for tracking lunar phases on your Linux desktop, with info, a clean, minimal design - and a giant illuminated moon. You're reading ‘Phases of Moon’ Brings Lunar Tracking to GNOME Shell, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.... Read more

Hysteria is contagious online. One person’s worry becomes another’s conviction, and that belief hardens — the thrill of righteous outrage is addictive! This week saw claims a PPA is being used to distribute Linux ransomware go wild online — but is it true? The story is a bit long, and... Read more

The upcoming release of Linux Mint 22.3 includes a ‘new’ tool that makes it easier to find out detailed System Information — and it looks great. Inverted commas around ‘new’ as it’s not brand new; the Ubuntu-based distro’s developers have revamped the existing System Reports tool with new features, a... Read more

Mozilla is giving Firefox a brand refresh, complete with a cute new mascot called Kit. “Kit’s our new [Firefox] mascot and your new companion through an internet that’s private, open and actually yours”, Mozilla say on a landing page for the agile flame-coloured fox. To celebrate Kit’s unveiling a range... Read more

CrossOver, the commercial Wine tool, is now available for Linux ARM64 devices in preview, allowing Windows games and software to run on ARM-based systems. You're reading CrossOver Now Available for Linux ARM64 as Preview Release, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.... Read more

Want to try Ubuntu's amd64v3 packages? Here's how to checkin your CPU supports them, enable them via APT, and revert if things go wrong. You're reading How to Enable Ubuntu amd64v3 Packages on Ubuntu 25.10, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.... Read more

Grab your calendar – or a biro, your hand and a stedfast commitment to not wash for the next six months — as here are the key dates in the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release schedule. Unless you’ve been lounging away at a tech-free retreat, you’ll know that Canonical’s engineers and... Read more

October brought ghosts, ghouls — and a glut of great Linux app updates. Big hitters included Mozilla Firefox 144, Thunderbird 144, ONLYOFFICE 9.1, Ghostty 1.2, GIMP 3.0.6 and the all-new Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0. And major virtualisation updates in the form of VirtualBox 7.2.3, Parallels Desktop 26 and VMWare Workstation... Read more

Ubuntu 25.10 now offers amd64v3 optimised packages. What does x86-64-v3 mean for your CPU, and will the modest performance improvements be noticeable? You're reading Ubuntu 25.10’s x86-64-v3 Architecture Variants Offer Modest Gains, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.... Read more

Spotify users (those haven’t switched streaming service because of an onslaught in AI slop appearing in playlists) looking for an slick way to control music playback and see the title of the song being played in the top bar are not short of options. Well, now there’s another one: gSpotify... Read more

In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface.  We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In... Read more

The networking industry is undergoing a fundamental architectural transformation, driven by the relentless demands of cloud-scale data centers and the rise of software-defined infrastructure. At the heart of this evolution is the principle of disaggregation: the systematic unbundling of components that were once tightly integrated within proprietary, monolithic systems.  This... Read more

When teams consider deploying Kubernetes, one of the first questions that arises is: where should it run? The default answer is often the public cloud, thanks to its flexibility and ease of use. However, a growing number of organizations are revisiting the advantages of running Kubernetes directly on bare metal... Read more