OpenOffice Still Gets +1.5 Million Downloads Per Month, Despite Being Discontinued
https://fosspost.org/openoffice-still-gets-1-5-million-downloads-per-month-despite-being-discontinued/
https://fosspost.org/openoffice-still-gets-1-5-million-downloads-per-month-despite-being-discontinued/
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OpenOffice Still Gets +1.5 Million Downloads Per Month, Despite Being Discontinued
OpenOffice started as the open source version of "StarOffice" by Sun Microsystems in 1999. It continued to be a the mainstream Microsoft Office alternative
OpenZFS 2.0 was released: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.0.0
GitHub
Release OpenZFS 2.0.0 · openzfs/zfs
Supported Platforms
Unified code base and documentation - The ZFS on Linux project has been renamed OpenZFS! Both Linux and FreeBSD are now supported from the same repository making all of the ...
Unified code base and documentation - The ZFS on Linux project has been renamed OpenZFS! Both Linux and FreeBSD are now supported from the same repository making all of the ...
Budgie desktop 10.5.2 released with many new features and bug-fixes.
Part of the Solus project: https://getsol.us/2020/12/02/budgie-10-5-2-released/
Part of the Solus project: https://getsol.us/2020/12/02/budgie-10-5-2-released/
Solus
Budgie 10.5.2 Released | Solus
Solus is proud to announce our newest iteration on our flagship desktop environment, Budgie 10.5.2, with a diverse range of new features and
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html
Following the CentOS announcement, someone created this parody website to grief: https://centos.rip/
While the Linux community was grieving over CentOS, Sabayon Linux, the Gentoo-based distribution gets a brand change and a merge: https://www.sabayon.org/article/sabayon-is-rebranding/
www.sabayon.org
Sabayon project is rebranding to MocaccinoOS - https://www.sabayon.org/
Kernel 5.10 released: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.10
You can wait it to come from your distribution's repositories or grab it now from Kernel.org
You can wait it to come from your distribution's repositories or grab it now from Kernel.org
kernelnewbies.org
Linux_5.10 - Linux Kernel Newbies
List of changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 5.10 development cycle
GTK 4.0 Released, One Month After GIMP Finally Switched to GTK 3.X
https://fosspost.org/gtk-4-0-released-one-month-after-gimp-finally-switched-to-gtk-3-x/
https://fosspost.org/gtk-4-0-released-one-month-after-gimp-finally-switched-to-gtk-3-x/
Contributing to Open Source For Dummies
https://fosspost.org/contributing-to-open-source-for-dummies/
https://fosspost.org/contributing-to-open-source-for-dummies/
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7 Ways to Contribute to Open Source Software
Many users of open source software may feel the need to give something back to the community that gave them all of these benefits they are enjoying, but may
GNOME Shell UX plans for GNOME 40
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40/
(Next version of GNOME will be 40, not 4.0)
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40/
(Next version of GNOME will be 40, not 4.0)
Arcan is an open source display server (Similar to Xorg, Wayland), and its developers have a reference desktop environment named "Durden". Useful for embedded devices.
Today, version 0.6 of it is released: https://arcan-fe.com/2020/12/20/durden-0-6-released/
Today, version 0.6 of it is released: https://arcan-fe.com/2020/12/20/durden-0-6-released/
Arcan
Durden 0.6 Released
Hot on the heels of the recent Arcan release, it is also time for a release to our reference desktop environment ‘Durden’. To refresh memory somewhat, the closest valid comparison is pr…
At FOSS Post, we are soon going to be releasing a nice project that we have been working on for months. Stay close! ;)
In just few days.
In just few days.
Xfce 4.16 released, finally with fractional scaling: https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200
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In just 24 hours after its release, people took 100 different quizzes on FOSS Quiz! If you were from those who didn't, then try it now!
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Welcome to FOSS Quiz.. » FOSS Quiz
A platform for having quizzes related to Linux and open source. You can select any quiz you want from the list below and start trying to answer the questions in order to measure how knowledgeable you are in that topic. Each topic is divided into many levels…
#Python is the main language of data science, per this analysis on 10M Jupyter Notebooks: https://blog.jetbrains.com/datalore/2020/12/17/we-downloaded-10-000-000-jupyter-notebooks-from-github-this-is-what-we-learned/