Rocky Linux searches for RHEL loophole As covered last week, Red Hat has decided to stop publicly sharing RHEL source code, only leaving CentOS Stream. The source code can still be obtained, but only through a contract that disallows re-use.…

RHEL source code isn’t freely available anymore This is pretty big news, and it deserves some explanation. I will do my best to provide some context about this change and explain it truthfully, though there are currently contradicting sources of…

The Reddit protest goes on, with hacker stories and more Even though the 48-hours mark the protest initially asked for has long passed, ~3000 subreddit are still private or restricted to protest against API changes. This has led Reddit to…

Debian 12, codenamed “Bookworm”, released After two years of development, we have a new release of Debian. The most noticeable changes compared to the previous version are updates to all the packages; Debian 12 uses GNOME 43, the Linux kernel…

Mozilla awards 100.000$ in “Responsible AI” prizes In March, Mozilla launched the “Responsible AI Channel”, a one-day in-person event to build “trustworthy AI products”.  This is extremely important because AI tools currently raise privacy and copyright concerns. So, who won?…

Ubuntu will offer an immutable, all snaps Desktop next year This news comes directly from the comments of OMGUbuntu: Canonical developer Oliver Grawert has said that there is already an immutable Ubuntu distro, called “Ubuntu Core”, currently aimed at embedded…

The Red Hat Summit is into the second to last day, KDE Plasma announces preliminary HDR support and Kubuntu will releases new Laptop. Keyboard driven browser Nyxt and GNOME settings gets updates. Fedora Budgie Onyx spin has been confirmed! Red…

The latest COSMIC DE update features panels, settings, and more The monthly update on the COSMIC desktop development is out, and it contains lots of user-facing improvements. The first big one is panels that can be freely customized; that is,…

KDE sprint focused on Plasma 6 During the last week, many KDE developers attended a sprint in Germany with the goal of shaping up the next Plasma release. Now that it has finished, we have many attendees publishing their work…

Mastodon is bringing easier onboarding, quote posts, and more As you can see in the image above, Mastodon has decided to make it easier to join the Fediverse by suggesting mastodon.social as a default option (still allowing any custom server…

GIMP has been ported to GTK3 And after another month, I merged the branch to our main development branch. The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished (apart from minor deprecated API here and there, but no huge tasks anymore)!!!…