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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Engineers at MIT have released a dataset of 8000 open source car designs that can be used to design your own future car:
https://news.mit.edu/2024/design-future-car-with-8000-design-options-1205
Very impressive.
https://news.mit.edu/2024/design-future-car-with-8000-design-options-1205
Very impressive.
MIT News
Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.
DrivAerNet++, the largest open-source dataset for car aerodynamics developed to date, can be used to quickly train an AI model to generate novel car designs. This process could potentially lead to more fuel-efficient cars and electric vehicles with longer…
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The GNU project has released version 1.0.0 of their systemd alternative named "Shepherd"... After 20 years in development.
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/
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openSUSE is about to get a new graphical package manager soon.
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/12/20/new-pkg-mgmt-tool-debuts/
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/12/20/new-pkg-mgmt-tool-debuts/
openSUSE News
New Package Management Tool Debuts
The name for this project was updated to Myrlyn on Jan. 9, 2025. YQPkg, a promising new package management tool for openSUSE, is preparing to make waves in t...
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Open source photography app Darktable sees version 5.0.0.
https://www.darktable.org/2024/12/darktable-5.0.0-released/
https://www.darktable.org/2024/12/darktable-5.0.0-released/
darktable
darktable 5.0.0 released
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0!
The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0.
To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release…
The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0.
To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release…
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This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive
https://spectrum.ieee.org/risc-v-laptops
https://spectrum.ieee.org/risc-v-laptops
IEEE Spectrum
This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive
DeepComputing PCs aim to elbow out Arm and x86 architectures
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