FreeBSD gets around 700K Euro in funding from the German Sovereign Tech Fund:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-to-invest-e686400-in-freebsd-infrastructure-modernization/

Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination
https://www.datagubbe.se/gnomefiles/

GNOME 47 has been released.
https://release.gnome.org/47/

It has accent colors feature, which was added in Ubuntu like 3 years ago or smth. 😄

Winamp source code is now available, though it is not released under an open source license.

https://winamp.com/player/legacy

If only they could find out about my local fork... 😉

Alpha 2 release of the COSMIC desktop from System76 has been released.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-2-press-release

PostgreSQL 17 has been released:
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-released-2936/

Valve and Arch Linux enter a collaboration: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/

ffmpeg 7.1 has been released.
https://jbkempf.com/blog/2024/ffmpeg-7.1.0/

Firefox 131 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/

This article confirms what we have written here before on how Mozilla does not like the fact that it is being used as an adblock-supporting browser.

https://fosspost.org/mozilla-has-been-suspiciously-silent-about-google-and-manifest-v3

They tried to fix their mistake later on but it was late:
https://www.ghacks.net/2024/10/01/mozillas-massive-lapse-in-judgement-causes-clash-with-ublock-origin-developer/

This is important.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/persistent-stealthy-linux-malware-has-infected-thousands-since-2021/

GNOME has published a blog post about how they are letting some of their staff go and cutting additional costs wherever possible due to some hard finances they are going through.

Who could have envisioned this after hiring a shaman as execute director for 8 months?
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/07/update-from-the-board-2024-10/

Plasma desktop 6.2 has been released.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.0/

Ubuntu 24.10 has been released.

Mostly it is just a software upgrade.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-notes/44878

Inkscape 1.4 has been released.
https://inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/inkscape-launches-version-14-powerful-new-accessib/

Aaaand it's gone. 😂
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/

It's funny when $hit like this happens because Russia invaded Ukraine, while I know a certain organization that publicly works on lobbying politicians in the US for a specific foreign country and no one cares.

Rules for thee but not for me.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop

Firefox 132 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/132.0/releasenotes/

Fedora 41 has been released
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-41/

K-9 Mail, the open source email client for android, has been released in its 8.0 version and rebranded as Thunderbird.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-for-android-8-0-takes-flight/

Release alpha 3 of the COSMIC desktop environment by System76 has been released:
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-3

It's getting more and more mature by the day.