Richard Stallman is battling cancer Richard Stallman has decided to share the news during the GNU Project’s 40th anniversary. He released he is undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma; he says the prognosis is good and hopes to continue to be…
GNOME 45 has been released Big week in GNOME land! The 45 release contains a lot of visual changes that had been teased at GUADEC, and some more. Firstly, we have the new activities dots indicator officially replacing the “Activities”…
This week we cover three big news: the latest release of Nextcloud Hub, the great increase in donations towards the open-source game engine Godot, and all the controversy surrounding Fedora’s plans to drop X11 entirely! Nextcloud announces Hub 6 with…
Criticism over Unity’s new pricing, and Godot’s new development fund This is about the proprietary game engine, not the open-source desktop environment. Unity has recently announced a new pricing plan which – I think – is both a great example…
Microsoft is having issues following European regulations …and it’s pretty funny to watch. The first issue is pushing users into Edge; currently, Windows 11 opens its own browser if you click the Windows Widgets panel or any search result, completely…
KDE releases Apps update, with new Merkuro app suite KDE has released the KDE Gear 23.08, which contains updates to most KDE applications. One highlight of this release is the introduction of the “Merkuro” application suite, which will – soon…
StarLabs announces 12.5″ Linux Surface-Like device Surface-like devices are quite unique in the Linux world. There are a few out there; a couple of examples are the very low-end PineTab, and the now-dead JingPad. It’s a form factor that not…
System76 shares the plan for COSMIC customization System76 is currently working to create a new desktop environment from scratch, called COSMIC. We are receiving monthly updates on the work-in-progress, and the latest news goes in-depth about the customization options; in…
Valve is now selling Certified Refurbished Steam Decks Valve has started selling refurbished Steam Decks at a significantly cheaper price: $319 instead of $399 for the base version, $419 instead of $529 for the 256GB model, and $519 instead of…
Linux overtakes MacOS among Steam users The above image shows the market share of Linux among Steam users, as reported by the latest Valve survey. If we temporarily stop looking at the Y-axis scale the graph seems promising: a clear,…
This newsletter will only cover three stories, but each of them is quite interesting and took some time to research. Firstly, today is the first day of GUADEC, which is similar to last week’s Akademy but for GNOME. Then, we…
SUSE forks RHEL with $10M, and Oracle heavily criticizes Red Hat too Let’s start with the former: SUSE, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise, has invested $10 million to create a fork of RHEL that avoids any lock-in and continues…
