GNOME 46 has been released.
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/03/20/introducing-gnome-46/

Normally we do not cover alpha/beta/RC releases of software, but Linux kernel 6.9 RC1 has been released, and so far it is full of new and interesting features: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc1-Released

Makes you wonder, if this is the RC1, then until the final release there will be so much more. 🎉😎

We have a few supporters on our Patreon campaign (less than 10 actually).

Can we double their number by the end of the month? 😍

Remember: It's just one cup of coffee per month.
https://www.patreon.com/fosspost

Here are the technical aspects for creating our forums website, and how you can also follow the same steps if you like to create an open source powered forum or community platform:

https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/17-creating-a-modern-open-source-forum-in-2024

A backdoor was discovered in upstream "xz" package, which found its way to many Linux distributions. It was pushed by a malicious maintainer for the project.

Details from:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Check the "Boot Repair" program so that you can easily fix your bootloader issues on Ubuntu/Linux.
https://fosspost.org/fix-boot-grub-problems-ubuntu-linux/

ffmpeg 7.0 has been released.
https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr7.0

German state moving 30K PCs to LibreOffice.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

Penpot 2.0, the open source UX and prototyping tool, has been released: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-2-0-a-major-milestone-in-our-journey-is-now-yours-to-explore-and-enjoy/4906

Open source note taking application Standard Notes is joining Proton: https://proton.me/blog/proton-standard-notes-join-forces

Google's search results (SERPs) are so missed up right now that a thin page from the "Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics" is ranking as the top result for the "take a screenshot on Linux" query. 😂

While it's fun to watch, it's not fun for website owners and small publishers like ours to be displaced from search results for unrelated websites. 😕

LXQt 2.0 has been released, based on Qt6.
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/04/15/release-lxqt-2-0-0/

Firefox 125 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/125.0.1/releasenotes/

System76 published an updated blog post about their progress on the COSMIC desktop: https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features

My God, has it been 8 years already? 🤯

Yep, it has been 8 years (2016!) since we originally wrote this guide explaining old tools like "Remastersys" and "Pinguy Builder", and just now we finished updating it to reflect today's programs and tools.

Come build your own custom Ubuntu distro! 😎
https://fosspost.org/create-linux-distribution-based-on-ubuntu/

Block Ads on Android in Apps and Games With AdAway
https://fosspost.org/block-ads-on-android-in-apps-and-game/

A lot of our hidden efforts at FOSS Post goes into updating old articles, and ensuring they remain relevant to whoever stumbles upon them from search engines or other sources.

We just updated our article on open-source survey makers to include the newest alternatives.
https://fosspost.org/open-source-survey-software

Let's explore what open-source alternatives are there for Google Maps on Android.
https://fosspost.org/android-open-source-google-maps-alternatives

There are 9 days remaining until the end of April, can we get 9 supporters to help us spread FOSS software and culture?

Join the challenge. 😎
https://www.patreon.com/fosspost

AMD plans to open the source code for more parts of its graphics cards drivers throughout 2024. This means AMD GPUs will be more enhanced and supported with Linux in the future.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-2024

Audacity 3.5 has been released with an integrated feature for "cloud saving" to audio.com which is owned by Muse Group, and more updates: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-3.5.0

If you trust them then you trust them :)