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/
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/
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Plasma desktop 6.2 has been released.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.0/
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.0/
KDE Community
Plasma 6.2
Plasma becomes a friendlier, more accessible and smarter environment
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Ubuntu 24.10 has been released.
Mostly it is just a software upgrade.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-notes/44878
Mostly it is just a software upgrade.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-notes/44878
Ubuntu Community Hub
Oracular Oriole Release Notes
Oracular Oriole Release Notes Table of Contents Introduction New features in 24.10 Known Issues Official flavours More information Introduction These release notes for Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) provide an overview of the release and document the known…
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Inkscape 1.4 has been released.
https://inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/inkscape-launches-version-14-powerful-new-accessib/
https://inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/inkscape-launches-version-14-powerful-new-accessib/
inkscape.org
Inkscape launches version 1.4, with powerful new accessible and customizable features | Inkscape
After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign.
Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the…
Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the…
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Aaaand it's gone. 😂
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/
Ars Technica
Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
Winamp released its source code with a license that drew a lot of attention. That’s when other apps’ code was found inside.
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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
Rules for thee but not for me.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop
Phoronix
Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers.
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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/
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-for-android-8-0-takes-flight/
The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!
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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.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-3
It's getting more and more mature by the day.
System76 Blog
Alpha 3: Tales from the COSMIC Desktop Environment
Upgrade to Alpha 3 for custom system fonts, testable screen reader support, and more.
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Someone made a nice short documentary about Open Source. Check it from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVuul3zWj3g
YouTube
The Story of Open Source
Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring this video. Check them out at https://codesource.io/PostHog
This is the Untold Story of Open Source, In the early 1980s at MIT, excitement filled the air. A new laser printer had just arrived—a sleek machine that promised…
This is the Untold Story of Open Source, In the early 1980s at MIT, excitement filled the air. A new laser printer had just arrived—a sleek machine that promised…
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How to Play IPTV Livestreams on Linux with Open TV
https://fosspost.org/how-to-play-iptv-livestreams-on-linux
https://fosspost.org/how-to-play-iptv-livestreams-on-linux
FOSS Post
How to Play IPTV Livestreams on Linux with Open TV
The world is modernizing and the old TV broadcasting ways are starting to disappear in the face of new technologies. IPTV is one of these technologies that
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FreeCAD 1.0 has been released.
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/11/19/freecad-version-1-0-released/
It is an alternative to AutoCAD.
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/11/19/freecad-version-1-0-released/
It is an alternative to AutoCAD.
FreeCAD News
FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released
After more than twenty years of intense and sustained development, the FreeCAD community is proud to announce the release of version 1.0. FreeCAD 1.0 is now available for download on all platforms.…
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Blender 4.3 has been released.
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-3/
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-3/
Blender
4.3 — Blender
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Firefox 133 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/133.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/133.0/releasenotes/
Firefox
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A German state plans to move to open source software and open standards.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Schleswig-Holstein-drives-forward-the-widespread-use-of-open-source-10177643.html
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Schleswig-Holstein-drives-forward-the-widespread-use-of-open-source-10177643.html
heise online
Schleswig-Holstein drives forward the widespread use of open source
With its strategy for "Open Innovation and Open Source", the Schleswig-Holstein government is planning to switch to "+1.Linux" and ODF, for example.
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OpenStreetMap ditches Ubuntu for Debian on their web servers:
https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html
https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html
Debian Project
Bits from the Debian Project
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.
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After VMWare increased their prices dramatically in the last few months, this enterprise customer who had 20,000 virtual machines using VMWare software has switched to an open source alternative: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/beeks_group_vmware_opennebula_migration/
Here's your greed back in your face, haha! 🔥
Here's your greed back in your face, haha! 🔥
The Register
Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs
A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient
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Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage#google_vignette
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage#google_vignette
Phoronix
Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support
Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today.
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