This was a week packed with major releases of various projects. In this newsletter issue, I’ll cover the releases from Fedora, Proton by Valve, the Vivaldi browser, Deepin (though the release is 20.9 and not 23), and digiKam (KDE’s photo…
Linux Mint introduces Styles and Color Variants Up until now, in Linux Mint you could only choose your theme and that was it. In March, the developers decided to introduce a more complex (and powerful) way to customize their system,…
This week there’s a lot of Linux hardware news! We start off with Pine64 providing great news for three devices: the PineNote (e-ink tablet), the PineTab 2, and the new “PineTab V” (which is the PineTab 2, but with a…
Framework announces new 16″ modular gaming laptop, revamps 13″ one too Framework is a hardware company that makes “modular” laptops: very easy to take apart and with little blocks to attach on the sides to customize the IO of the…
Hub 4 introduces AI Tools in Nextcloud We are currently witnessing a race by big companies to introduce AI tools in their “office” ecosystems. Microsoft, as an example, has announced a “Copilot” that will be able to generate text for…
Featured Image by @TheCrazedEB Regardless of how you feel about AI, it’s clear that something is going wrong. This is how the ArtStation main page looks at the time of writing: The same “No AI” images could be found on…
KDE has managed to port Konsole to Windows 11, and for a good reason; A GNOME Image Viewer application has refactored image decoding, with many user-facing improvements; Meta is considering joining the Fediverse through ActivityPub: there’s a lot going on!…
This week is full of Distro news. Firstly there’s the announcement of the next version of VanillaOS, which will officially drop Ubuntu to be instead based on Debian. Which, by the way, is also working on their next release, called…
It’s been a while since we over-viewed some of my top Linux distributions. Creating top lists for anything is difficult to do, as leaving out bias and opinion is near impossible. An actual top or best Linux distro list would…
Lately, things have not been going too well for some Linux hardware companies (such as Mycroft), and even HP discontinued their Linux laptop; KDE and GNOME are joining together to raise 100.000 dollars to make Flathub the “Linux App Store”;…
The first big topic is new Linux hardware available in Purisms and Kubuntu Focus stores (a Lapdock kit and a new compact computer, respectively). Then, a blogpost by the maintainer of CoreJS where he says that the current state of…
Notice: This is an older newsletter; many links were lost in the migration process. Click this link for an archive of the old newsletter site. This week saw the release of KDE Plasma 5.27 and EndlessOS 5. Aside from these…
