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…

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…

PeerTube v6 announced with Storyboards and Chapters Peertube is a decentralized video platform; its ambitious goal is to be an alternative to closed-source for-profit websites such as YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, and so on. The latest version includes many quality-of-life improvements,…

COSMIC’s Window Arrangement And More We have a new update from the most exciting development saga of Linux! This month, the team has put together various smaller features or details that are required for a full-fledged desktop environment. Let’s start…

Earthquake within OpenAI It’s not easy to explain what has happened in OpenAI in the last few days. When the previous newsletter issue was published, Sam Altman was the CEO; now he isn’t, but the company just said he’ll be…

GNOME gets €1M Funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund The Sovereign Tech Fund is an organization run by two project managers of open-source projects (Adriana Groh and Fiona Krakenbürger) and is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs…

Today is KDE 6 MegaRelease Day KDE has decided to release today an alpha of Plasma 6, Frameworks 6, and KDE Gear. Usually, these are different products with different release dates but (given how interdependent KDE 6 development is) the…

UW Will Host the “SeaGL” Free Software Conference The “SeaGL” (Seattle GNU/Linux Conference) is a yearly event that takes place in Seattle and has the goal of “spreading awareness and knowledge about free/libre/open source software, hardware, and culture”. It will…

COSMIC shows off some COOL Login & Lock Screens! I have to give it to them, the design is somewhat original. Nonetheless, all the basic elements are there: date, time, wifi and battery statuses, keyboard input language, switch user button,…

Ubuntu 23.10 (And Derivatives) Released! Ubuntu 23.10 is finally here! The new release comes with some interesting changes, such as a completely new Flutter-based installer. On top of that, a completely new Flutter app store was also introduced. This is…

GNOME wants to drop x11, chaos ensues I recently covered the proposals by Fedora to stop providing an x11 session, something that generated quite a lot of discussion. Even more controversial, GNOME just proposed to (1) stop providing a x11…