Ubuntu 26.04 LTS daily builds are now available for testing. As development snapshots for the next long-term release, these are not considered stable or bug-free.

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The official Xubuntu website was comprised at the weekend, briefly serving up Windows malware to users who were trying to download the distro. Users who visited the Xubuntu website over the weekend to download the official .torrent of the Xfce-toting Ubuntu flavour were instead served a .zip file. When extracted, this contained an .exe runtime and a ‘terms of service’ text file. The Xubuntu team took down the affected download page as soon as they were able. There is no indication that direct Xubuntu ISO downloads (or checksums) were modified, altered, replaced or otherwise interfered with. We’re working with Canonical […]

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It’s always been easy to install GIMP on Ubuntu (it’s in the repos), but installing the latest stable release? Well, that just got easier too as the GIMP Snap is now officially maintained by GIMP itself. —Oh, you though it already was? GIMP, like many big-name apps on the Snap Store, was packaged by ‘snapcrafters’, a community-based team affiliated with Canonical who maintain unofficial snap packages for popular software (denoted by a yellow star in store listing). They often make modifications or add extras. Snapcrafter’s Audacity and OBS Studio snaps both bundle Intel OpenVINO AI plugins (a cap doff to […]

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