Mozilla Corporation CEO, Mitchell Baker, steps down Mitchell Baker, ex-Mozilla Corporation CEO, was one of the first employees of the Netscape legal department in 1994. She worked on both the Netscape Public License and the Mozilla Public License and became…
You can try out Plasma 6 with KaOS! KaOS is a rolling distribution that focuses on providing a great KDE Plasma experience. The team has just released a new release that replaced the good old Plasma 5 with the 6…
Roblox now funds Blender development too It’s always nice to see big companies use part of their profits to donate to the open-source projects they rely on. The latest example is Roblox, who decided to become a Corporate Silver Member…
GNU Project to support private and secure online payments Did you know that GNU has a microtransaction and electronic payment system? It’s called “GNU Taler”, and it’s developed by Luxembourg-based company Taler (along with the GNU community). The project provides…
Sovereign Tech Fund invests €203,000 in GStreamer After investing €1M in GNOME, the Sovereign Tech fund also decided to finance the development of the “general multimedia processing framework” GStreamer. The goal, according to the Fund, is to “Re-implement a multimedia…
The Linux Foundation makes $262 Million The Linux Foundation has published its yearly activity report: let’s see if there are interesting insights! From a financial point of view, you might be surprised to see how the LF is not just…
Linux Marketshare at an all-time high! I’m happy to report that the Linux market share is at an all-time high according to two reports. Firstly, we have “Statcounter”, whose results over time you can see above. The spike in December…
GNOME development is greatly benefiting from the Sovereign Tech Fund The amount of work that’s currently happening in the GNOME projects thanks to the developers hired using the Sovereign Tech Fund is impressive. Firstly, we have Alice working on adaptive…
COSMIC Development Updates: Text Editor, Multi-Monitor, and more! The latest System76 blogpost features the changes implemented in the work-in-progress COSMIC desktop during the last month of development. Let’s start with the text editor; we can see how some new features…
Nextcloud announces Hub 7 Just a couple of days ago, the Nextcloud project announced a new major version of the project; amongst the new features, we see global search, new AI models to choose from, and more. I have to…
