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Canonical to Package and Distribute NVIDIA CUDA within Ubuntu’s Repositories

The CUDA toolkit provides developers with a parallel computing platform and programming model that uses NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing. Until now, developers had to download CUDA from the NVIDIA website to install it on Ubuntu, but soon that will no longer be the case.

Firefox 143 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

Firefox 143 is yet another small update that only brings a couple of new features, one of them being the ability to preview when a website asks for camera access in the permission dialog, which may come in handy when switching between multiple cameras.

Giada 1.3 Open-Source Loop Machine Adds Support for Multiple Audio Connections

Giada 1.3 is a small update, but an important one as it introduces support for multiple audio output configurations (more than stereo), along with improvements to the JACK Audio Connection Kit support to enable support for multiple output connections.

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MKVToolNix 95.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Improves the Chapter Generation Feature

Dubbed “Goodbye Stranger”, the MKVToolNix 95.0 release improves the chapter generation feature in the MKVToolNix GUI by implementing a new placeholder when generating chapters for appended files, which will be replaced by the appended file’s title metadata.

GStreamer 1.26.6 Adds Support for WVC1 and WMV3 Codecs to Video4Linux2

GStreamer 1.26.6 introduces support for WVC1 and WMV3 codecs to V4L2 (Video for Linux API version 2), adds a new blocking adapter element to the threadshare plugin (gst-plugin-threadshare) for use in front of block elements like sinks that sync to the clock, and updates the librespot library to version 0.7 for compatibility with recent Spotify changes.

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Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 23, 2025

Quoting: Linux's Quest for Desktop Dominance: Are They Fighting the Right Battles? —

Linux is one of the most prolific operating systems in the world—except when it comes to desktop PCs. Yet lovers of Linux hold on to the idea that one of these years, Linux will reach the tipping point and become the most popular desktop operating system—the year of the Linux desktop.

While this could absolutely happen, the way that Linux as a whole has been developing over the years isn't always conducive to making the world's Windows and macOS users convert en masse. Linux is always winning a new battle, but are they the right ones?

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