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…
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…
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…
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 last week saw major releases of various projects, featuring Elementary, LibreOffice, and the KDE…
Troubles for Open Source Software at the European Commission On the 15th of September 2022, the European Commission has published the European Cyber Resilience Act. The goal is to have a common set of cybersecurity standards that would be able…
A sneak peek to Unity 7.7 Rudra Saraswat, the maintainer of Ubuntu Unity, has published a blogpost asking for feedback on the upcoming version of the Unity desktop. He showcased many of the changes that the update will bring, starting…
