GNOME 46 Released! This version is codenamed “Kathmandu”, the Capital city of Nepal. What’s new? Firstly, there’s a new global search function within the Files applications. You enter a query and see all matches from the “configured search locations”, meaning…
COSMIC’s getting close to Alpha! Yes, I said that last month too, but it’s gradual work that will take some time! The release is currently planned around late May, following a delay due to the decision to include some core…
KDE MegaRelease 6 Is Out! The KDE MegaRelease 6 includes releases of Plasma 6, KDE Frameworks 6, and multiple KDE applications ported to Qt6. It’s the biggest release of KDE software we’ve seen in multiple years, and it has been…
System76’s COSMIC DE almost ready! Good news: COSMIC is getting closer and closer to an alpha version. There’s even discussion within the Fedora community around creating a new Fedora SIG based on this desktop, through Fedora Atomic Desktop images; even…
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…
If you’ve been following recent videos on TechHut, you probably know we’re big Docker fans. Whether it’s media servers, analytic tools, web services, or download clients, most applications demoed on the channel are running in Docker containers. In this post,…
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…
