Xubuntu Development Update December 2024

As the holiday season enters full swing, Xubuntu 25.04 is off to a quiet start. Xfce 4.20 is a mere 8 days away and will bring numerous updates expected to ship in Xubuntu 25.04. MATE 1.28 will also land in Ubuntu over the next few months.

Xubuntu 24.10 Released

Xubuntu 24.10, “Oracular Oriole,” is now available. This 38th release of Xubuntu features many updated applications from Xfce (4.18 and 4.19), GNOME (46 and 47), and MATE (1.26). In particular, the Xfce 4.19 components are prerelease software: Xfce 4.20 is the next stable release,

Xubuntu Development Update August 2024

August marks the fourth month of development for Xubuntu 24.10, “Oracular Oriole.” With the arrival of many Xfce 4.19 components, our next release is beginning to take shape. Let’s look at how things are progressing in this month’s Xubuntu development update. August Schedule The Oracular Oriole

The Best Browser You’re Not Using

Vivaldi may be the last browser that cares about its users. Has your favorite browser recently let you down or get on your nerves? Are sites not rendering correctly? Has the integrated AI nonsense gone too far? Or maybe your browser doesn’t innovate anymore and feels incredibly dated next

Xubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" Released

Xubuntu 23.10, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur,” is due to climb out of the development labyrinth on Thursday, October 12, 2023. It features the latest apps from Xfce 4.18, GNOME 45, and MATE 1.26. There are not many exciting new features this time around. Instead, the overall theme of

Xubuntu Development Update September 2023

September has arrived, and cooler days are finally ahead in the northern hemisphere. The Xubuntu development update for September 2023 brings several exciting updates. Development on the 23.10 release, “Mantic Minotaur,” has been progressing nicely, with numerous updates to report. Color Emoji Have Arrived Font updates to the desktop-common

MenuLibre 2.3.2 Released

I’m excited to present MenuLibre’s latest development release, MenuLibre 2.3.2. This cycle featured a massive porting effort, numerous usability enhancements, and fixes for bugs that I didn’t know existed. This might be the largest update to date. Goodbye Glade Glade is a powerful design and

MenuLibre 2.3.1 Released

MenuLibre 2.3.1 is now available! Today’s development release features a new “Command Editor” dialog that makes it easy to build launcher commands. It also improves support for missing theme icons, as you might find on Fedora 37 and 38. The Command Editor Building application launchers can be

Enable Color Emoji on Xubuntu

Many of us are exiting another drab, grey winter season. As Spring ramps up and the world’s colors awaken all around us, maybe now is the time to make your Xubuntu desktop more colorful. Since Xubuntu uses GTK, you can quickly spice up your writing with emoji by using

Xubuntu Minimal Visual Tour

Xubuntu Minimal provides a lighter-weight alternative to the full-size Xubuntu desktop. The core desktop experience allows you to build your very own version of Xubuntu with the tricky configuration already done for you. Scroll through the screenshots below to see it in action. When you’re done, download Xubuntu Minimal

Xubuntu Development Update March 2023

We have much to report in the Xubuntu development update for March 2023! Xubuntu Minimal is finally available. The recently added Flatpak support has been removed. Xubuntu has embraced Mastodon as our latest social network. And we’ve updated a ton of packages! Read on for more. Xubuntu Minimal has

Enable Flatpak in Xubuntu

Out of the box, Xubuntu supports Debian, Snap, and AppImage packages with no additional configuration or installation packages. If you want to expand your options further, you can easily enable Flatpak in Xubuntu. Here’s how! What is Flatpak? Flatpak bills itself as “the future of apps on Linux.” It’