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 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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LLMs and AI agents are everywhere right now, and if you’ve been putting off learning this stuff, Humble Bundle has a new Packt collection that makes it hard to justify waiting any longer. The LLM and Agentic AI Career Accelerator Bundle packs
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LibreOffice is the go-to for people who want a capable, no-nonsense office suite that does not phone home or push subscriptions in their face. It handles everything from text documents and spreadsheets to presentations and databases, and it does so without asking
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systemd is the init system and service manager that most major Linux distributions ship with by default. It boots the system, manages services, and has taken on more responsibilities over the years than a lot of people think it should. For some,
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Most consumer routers give you a locked-down firmware, a few years of updates if you are lucky, and a web UI that makes you miss the terminal. Routers powered by OpenWrt are a breath of fresh air here, as they give users
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