Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html?

Firefox 91 released: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.0/releasenotes/

elementary OS 6 "Odin" released: https://blog.elementary.io/elementary-os-6-odin-released

Here's our review for elementaryOS 6 Odin.
https://fosspost.org/elementary-os-6-odin-review/

Debian 11 released.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/

Git 2.33 released:
https://github.blog/2021-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-33/

LibreOffice 7.2 released
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2

Mate 1.26 was released around a week ago, adding Wayland support for many components: https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2021-08-08-mate-1-26-released/

Throw Google Forms away, and get one of these open source survey tools for your data collection purposes.

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We have updated our Linux command line introductory article with more resources and better structuring.

Read it at: https://fosspost.org/linux-command-line-basics-examples/

30 Years ago, Linux was released.

What started as a hobby project, a thing that was thought to be "not big", turned out to be one of the greatest software pieces in modern history. Millions of people's lives changed, because of Linux, and Linus!

Happy 30th birthday Linux!

GTK 4.4 released: https://blog.gtk.org/2021/08/23/gtk-4-4/

OpenShot 2.6 video editor was released: https://www.openshot.org/blog/2021/08/25/new_openshot_release_260/

Sailfish OS 4 released, an open source operating system for mobile devices: https://sailfishos.org/

Well, to be precise, not entirely open source, but most of it is: https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Open_Source

If you want to see an actual death signal about Mozilla, and why we published many stories about it so far, see how Google pays them only $450M per year to be default search engine: https://www.androidheadlines.com/2020/08/mozilla-firefox-google-search

But for Apple's Safari marketshare? That's $15B: https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-15-billion-to-remain-default-safari-search-engine-in-2021/

Shows you how little Google thinks of Firefox as a competitor, and also how little they think of its marketshare and that it doesn't threaten them at all.

Linux kernel 5.14 released: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/29/382

You can get it from kernel.org and compile it, or for Ubuntu you can get it as a DEB from: https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.14/

Easily balance your GNOME 40 desktop with these 20 extensions.

https://fosspost.org/20-gnome-extensions-gnome-40/

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