Dropbeat is yet-another slick music controller for GNOME Shell
Dropbeat is a new riff on a old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of this ilk are legion, and this panel applet doesn’t do…
Ubuntu’s turning another system Deb package into a snap
Ubuntu is moving hwctl from Deb package to snap-only distribution, a change Canonical says improves security and desktop integration. You’re reading Ubuntu’s turning another system Deb package into a snap, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not…
Curl dropped from Ubuntu 26.04 minimal cloud images by mistake
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images have been missing curl – accidentally, it turns out, so Canonical has put it back. Curl is a commonly-used command-line tool for fetching files from remote servers. It’s called on in countless install scripts, CI…
Linux App Release Roundup (July 2026)
If you spent July dodging the summer heatwave, catch up on the best Linux app releases and updates you might have missed last month in this roundup. You likely already know about the Firefox 153 release, with its “new” container tabs confusing those who…
Ubuntu’s ready for Alberta and Morocco time zone changes
Times are literally changing and Ubuntu’s keeping pace – well, kinda. In November, most of Canada will turn its clocks back an hour, but the Western Canadian province of Alberta won’t. It’s decided to stay on daylight saving time permanently rather than…
Starling is a new Linux desktop built using AI in six months
Some Linux desktop environments were developed over decades, others in just a few years. Starling, which made the rounds online this week, claims to have been built by just one person in six months using AI coding tools. What’s more, a preview build is…
Mosaic is an i3-style auto-tiling extension for GNOME Shell
Mosaic brings i3-style automatic tiling to GNOME Shell without asking you to choose it permanently. Turn it on when you want windows to arrange themselves, turn it off when you want floating windows back. The extension works with GNOME 45 and up, adding…
Ubuntu 26.04 virtualization HWE stack offers newer QEMU & libvirt
Ubuntu’s hardware enablement (HWE) effort has expanded to include backports of newer virtualisation tech to users of the current LTS release. The virtualization HWE stack from Canonical will let users benefit from newer versions of QEMU, libvirt and…
We finally revived our Firefox add-on (10 years late)
The official OMG! Ubuntu add-on for Firefox is back – albeit far later than planned (sorry about that). If you’ve used our Chrome extension over the last decade, this add-on will be familiar as it’s the same thing, just in Firefox. Same look and (almost)…
Mission Center update adds battery, partition and power draw stats
A new version of Linux system monitoring app Mission Center is available for download, adding new hardware stats, first-run setup prompt and bug fixes. Mission Center 1.2.0 adds a new Battery page in the Performance tab, surfaces per-partition usage…