Plenty of CPU architectures have come and gone over the last few decades. The x86 family alone has seen a long line of chips rise to prominence and fade away as newer generations took over. The i486 is one such chip, and
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KDE Plasma’s two classic themes, Oxygen and Air, are making a comeback. A group of KDE contributors is actively restoring both ahead of the Plasma 6.7 release, which is scheduled for June 16, 2026. Both themes trace their roots back to the
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A patch has been submitted to the Linux kernel mailing list proposing a new HID driver that would passively monitor USB keyboard-like devices and flag the ones that look like they’re up to no good. The driver is called hid-omg-detect, and it
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If you are a regular reader of ours, then you know that Proton is one of the privacy-focused services we usually vouch for. I have been using their various services personally for quite a while now, and I can confidently say that
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TDF’s Membership Committee has removed all Collabora staff and partners from membership in one move, covering over 30 developers. This includes, per Collabora’s own count, seven of LibreOffice’s all-time top ten core committers who are still active. To make things more complicated,
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A contributor named Faeiz Mahrus put forward a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would change how per-user environment variables are managed on the system. Right now, Fedora handles this through shell-specific RC files: ~/.bashrc for Bash users, ~/.zshrc for Zsh users.
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Almost two weeks ago, someone on GNOME’s Discourse forum asked whether the missing Google Drive support in GNOME 50 was a bug or a deliberate decision. GNOME developer Emmanuele Bassi replied, confirming that Drive was no longer supported. He went on saying
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Arch Linux needs no introduction around here. It is the distro people flock to for its no-nonsense, rolling release approach and, of course, the right to say “I use Arch, btw” at every given opportunity. Setting it up used to mean having
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There is a new open source office suite. It’s called Euro-Office. As the name suggests, it is a European effort and is primarily meant for European organizations and governments. Before you get too excited, let me clarify that it is not your
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Ubuntu MATE creator Martin Wimpress has announced that he no longer has the passion he once had, nor the time, to work on the project: As another development cycle passes, I find myself lacking the time I once had to work on
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