The lone developer behind GNOME Boxes, Felipe Borges, has shown off a complete rewrite of the app as a Flatpak-only beta, featuring a modern interface foundation. Balancing his day job at Red Hat and his usual GNOME Settings maintenance duties, Felipe says
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GNOME Shell Extensions are usually sourced from extensions.gnome.org, or “EGO” as the GNOME folks call it. Every submission on this portal is manually reviewed, and that review process has been under strain for months now. We covered this back in December when
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Keychron has introduced ZGM, short for Zephyr Gaming Mouse, an open source firmware project built for gaming mice. It is built on Zephyr RTOS, the same real-time operating system that already powers ZMK for keyboards. In its announcement, Keychron portrayed the launch
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Open source projects have mostly split into two camps on AI. Some keep a human in the loop, letting contributors use whatever tools they want as long as they take responsibility for the result. Others have gone further and banned AI-generated contributions
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Ubuntu is one of the most stable Linux distros out there, provided you’re running its LTS release. Now imagine giving that up for a rolling release model. Feels exciting, right? Stop fantasizing then, as today’s not the day that happens. Instead, Canonical’s
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GOG built its whole brand around selling DRM-free games and providing offline installers that work without requiring an internet connection or any kind of verification from their side. They even encourage people to download installers and copy them over to physical media
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An Atlanta resident, Samuel Tunick, is fighting a federal indictment that treats a privacy feature on his phone as evidence destruction. A grand jury charged him under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a), a statute that covers destruction of property to block seizure by
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OpenUK recently published its AI Openness report, and buried inside the 40-page document is a big ask from the UK government. Build Britain its own foundation that holds code, governance, and standards the way the Linux Foundation (LF) does in the US.
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FireDragon is the default browser on Garuda Linux, the Arch-based distro known for its polished KDE Plasma spins and reliability despite riding the bleeding edge. It has traditionally run on a Floorp base, giving it Firefox’s extension support wrapped in Garuda’s privacy
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If update notifications have stopped showing up on your Ubuntu 26.04 LTS install, that isn’t some random glitch. OMG Ubuntu’s Joey Sneddon has traced it back to a Launchpad bug report and a Discourse thread that both point to the same root
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