Do you want to upgrade Ubuntu Noble Numbat from 24.04 to 24.04.1 or later? If so, then that means you are looking for how to upgrade Ubuntu system to a point release. The term "Point Release" to Ubuntu users is more or less similar to "Service Pack" known to Microsoft Windows users which is a whole system upgrade (bug fixes and improvements) within current release major version. That means, in this concept, to us Ubuntu 24.04.3 (Point Three) is more or less similar to Windows XP SP3. This tutorial will explain the procedures with an example of upgrading Ubuntu Noble from fresh install to Point Three.

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Debian 13 "Trixie" GNU/Linux operating system is finally released on Saturday,  9 August 2025. This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release with five years of support until 2030 and has been developed for two years since the previous release. It includes full and complete set of tens of thousands of software packages. Trixie is available for almost all types of computer available in the world and we can download it for desktop and laptop for PC 64-bit (also known as amd64) and many other computer architectures (except now Debian no longer supports PC 32-bit aka i386) as detailed below plus further instructions. Let's download Debian!

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Tux Math (or Tux, of Math Command) is a free software education game designed for kids to learn mathematics by playing. This game is one of Tux4Kids Project applications beside Tux Typing and Tux Paint a free software project to create educational applications. You can play this amazing game with kids or if you are a teacher, with your students too. Now let's try it out!

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Since last year, we have written many articles about Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" (click to view them all). Now, we planned to make a compilation of those in a periodical way i.e. tri-monthly like this. We hope this helps you to learn using Ubuntu for your daily computing better. We will start from downloads, install guide and a few important basics as you may see below. Now, here we go. 

 (A screenshot from the Apps Installation Guide tutorial in this series)

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Camera (GNOME Camera) is the default Ubuntu application for taking photos as well as recording videos. In other words, it is the application used to access webcam device in laptop or PC. It is useful i.e. in live streaming and video conferencing (for school teachers, office workers, your family) beside taking simple pictures. We will learn more about it here with a little bit howtos and beneficial references. We remind you that this episode is the continuation in this series after Calendar and before the next one Characters. Now, please enjoy reading!

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Dolphin is the default Kubuntu file manager application. Blue folder icon, positioned beside launcher button on the panel, run fast, simple by default and powerful when needed, that's Dolphin. Just like what we have discussed at the previous episode, Discover Application Store, we will also explain Dolphin in details with screenshots and further references. We hope this helps every Kubuntu users. Now let's start reading!

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Calendar is the default calendar application on Ubuntu. Its main purpose is to show date, day, month and year. It also has features like scheduling, making appointments, reminders, synchronizing with your online calendars and so on. Now let's start reading about Calendar below.

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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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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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This tutorial will help you install Java Development Kit or JDK on Ubuntu 24.04. This is required for you to do software development in Java programming language because it contains the compiler and Java Virtual Machine alias JVM as well as the libraries. It is not to be confused with JRE, as JRE is required only for running, while JDK is required for creating Java applications. Finally, we will install OpenJDK, the free software implementation of Java default to Ubuntu and let's continue reading.

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Calculator is the default calculator application of Ubuntu. This program, originated from The GNOME Project, has simple interface, provides basic calculation ability useful in daily life as well as advanced and programming calculation abilities including financial ones. This is a mandatory utility to a general-purpose operating system like Ubuntu that serves humanity (as the name Ubuntu itself means humanity for others).

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This tutorial will help you move address book from one Thunderbird instance to another. This can be accomplished by export and importing it as files. Finally, you might want to to this because you have multiple computers with Ubuntu then you want contacts from the older computer with a lot of addresses (your family, friends, colleagues, community, teams) to be available in the new one. Now let's try it out!

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