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…
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…
