The globally recognized tech and engineering company has quietly shut down the OpenRadioss project at the start of this month, keeping the GitHub page around but completely removing the repository. I sound complainy because usually when an open project is discontinued, the
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You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu’s C-based system components with Rust-written equivalents that don’t compromise in terms of functionality, most of the time. Now it looks like the distro’s OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled
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If some Reddit posts are to be believed, Digital Ocean is ending its Open Source Credits program quietly: DigitalOcean has decided to sunset the Open Source Credits Program. As part of this change, we are no longer accepting new credit applications or
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yt-dlp has over 195,000 stars on GitHub, supports thousands of platforms, and is actively maintained by a global developer community. Unfortunately, the IFPI would like to see it on the EU’s piracy watchlist. Just so you know, the International Federation of the
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Since 2010, F-Droid has been the go-to place for downloading free and open source apps for Android. Its client app is the one people interact with the most, and it has received many upgrades over the years. But now it’s time for
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Announced via a two-part series of blogs, Microsoft has moved WSL containers (WSLC) out of public preview and into general availability. Let’s take a look at what it offers. The new release comes with wslc.exe, a dedicated command-line tool for Linux container
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When we heard about the Netherlands’ DAWO initiative, a formal mandate to replace outside software across Dutch public institutions with a NixOS-powered platform, we asked ourselves: How could France miss out on this? Turns out, they didn’t. DINUM, the country’s Interministerial Directorate
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openSUSE is known for shipping four main Linux distributions. Leap is the stable, fixed-release option built on the same source as SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES). Tumbleweed is the rolling release for those who want the latest packages. MicroOS is the immutable, rolling
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postmarketOS, the Linux-based operating system that many of you turn to for reviving your old smartphones, has undergone a name change, and it is now called “Nura.” This was announced during the project’s conference recently, where the rebranding closed a long-running process
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The man leading GhostBSD, Eric Turgeon, has come up with Mocka, a new desktop for this BSD distribution that would eventually replace MATE. So far, he has unveiled the dock that will go into it, as well as some preliminary concepts and
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