This tutorial will help you install Canon MP160 printer + scanner on Ubuntu LTS "Noble Numbat" 24.04. We will use the free software driver called printer-driver-gutenprint to do so. We will be able to print, scan as well as photocopy on Ubuntu by using this all-in-one Free Software-friendly machine.  Now let's start the stuff and quickly use the printer!

 


 

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Discover is the application store of Kubuntu. Discover is part of KDE Applications and closely related to Plasma. By using Discover, Kubuntu user can show what programs and games are available to choose, view their details, install and remove any of them as well as update the whole system. We introduce Discover to new users to help them getting started and be productive with Kubuntu. You can also find this as a part of our series of Kubuntu Default Applications. Finally, let's start reading!

 


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OpenMandriva Lx 6 "Vanadium", the sixth release of stable edition of OpenMandriva, released last month on 20 April celebrating its inclusion of Plasma 6 and Flatpak. This stable edition is also known as ROCK as a company of its another edition of rolling release known as ROME. It brings a lot of changes since the last major release in four years. We listed things about the release in brief and we hope you will enjoy it. Happy downloading!

 (OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 "Vanadium" screenshot from OpenMandriva Wiki)


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The forty second release of Fedora GNU/Linux is here. It's released on Wednesday, 16 April 2025 or near Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" release date. It is available in a lot of editions, mainly: Workstation, KDE Plasma Edition (new!), Server, IoT, Cloud and many more. We make a summary of the downloads for you below to mention only editions we believe most readers will be interested to try (and links to find the rest). Finally, congratulations to all computer users and thank you to Fedora developers. Happy downloading! 



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Congratulations to Canonical Ltd. and Free Software community for the release of Ubuntu 25.04! This release. codenamed Plucky Puffin, is out on Thursday 17 April 2024 or six months after the previous version 24.10 last year. We presented here a compilation of all download links including the Official Flavors from Kubuntu to Ubuntu Cinnamon, mirrors, and torrents. Let's celebrate together, and download and run our computer, laptop and server with Ubuntu.
 

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This tutorial will help you install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu 24.04. VLC (Video LAN Client) is the most famous audio and movie player everybody who uses computer and phone knows and it is a free software licensed under GNU GPL. Its logo is the orange cone you often find at road constructions. And we will begin to use it on Ubuntu like the following. Now happy reading!

 


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This tutorial will help you creating desktop shortcuts with icons on GNOME desktop environment in general and Ubuntu 24.04 computer system in particular. We divide this tutorial into three sections, first is to create basic shortcut on desktop, second is to create a custom shortcut for a custom program or command line or shell script and third is to edit existing applications menu to suit your needs. This works for other systems as well for example Debian, Fedora and Guix. Now, let us start practicing!


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This tutorial will help you make your first document by writing one page article in LaTeX using Gummi Editor part of our ongoing Gummi+LaTeX series in The Ubuntu Buzz. We intend this to students (and any other people) who begin their academic writings using LaTeX --the standard typesetting of academic world-- for their first time. Finally, you will also be able to download sample text below to make your exercise easier. Now let's start it!


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