For years, many Ubuntu users have felt that traditional .deb packages were being gradually sidelined in favor of the Snap ecosystem. It started quietly. Double-clicking a downloaded .deb file would open it in Archive Manager instead of the installer. Then came controversial
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Canonical engineer Julian Andres Klode, who works on Ubuntu’s secure boot signing, has put forward a proposal on Ubuntu’s community forums to significantly cut down the GRUB bootloader for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10. The proposal takes aim at GRUB’s parsers, which Julian
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For regulars in the open source space, Ubuntu is kind of a household name that introduced many to the diverse world of Linux, where you have all kinds of flavors. Want some work done? You have Fedora. Want to earn the rights
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Age verification has suddenly become the most heated topic in the Linux world and it’s not slowing down anytime soon. Distributions are already picking sides. Void and Garuda Linux have outright rejected the idea. The privacy-focused Android distro GrapheneOS isn’t entertaining it
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Dylan M. Taylor is not a household name in the Linux world. At least, he wasn’t until recently. The software engineer and longtime open source contributor has quietly built a respectable track record over the years: writing Python code for the Arch
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In my scenario, I had downloaded VidBee video downloader in AppImage format on my Fedora Linux. It was integrated well with the system with GearLeaver. However, one day, it suddenly stopped opening. I could see the icon in GNOME search but clicking
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Age verification laws don’t seem to be stopping. California, Colorado, and Brazil, all have some version of the same requirement where OS providers must collect age data at account setup and expose it to apps through a real-time API. Governments call it
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In a post on X (formerly Twitter), GrapheneOS has made its position on age verification laws clear; it won’t comply, regardless of where the demand comes from. The team goes on to state that its OS and services will remain available worldwide,
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Age verification is sadly here to stay, as the politicians pushing these laws don’t seem to care much about what people actually think. Open source projects have been left to deal with the fallout, either by starting compliance work, taking a public
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Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, one of the most widely used Linux distributions around. Beyond just shipping an OS, the company provides long-term security maintenance and support for a massive portfolio of open source packages, and its products span everything from
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