Collabora Productivity, Element, Nordeck, Open-Xchange, Univention, and XWiki have put their names behind a new Berlin-registered company called Open Productivity Software GmbH. Leading the firm are the two managing directors, Dr. Gerald Pfeifer and Peter Ganten, who are tasked with making it
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Gaël Duval has already put out two beta releases of ElixirOffice, a desktop app and a self-hosted server version, and he is asking early testers for feedback. His wife, a teacher, has been facing a predicament many people usually face when using
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In the project’s September monthly update, Linux Mint lead, Clement Lefebvre (clem), says that the distro’s version number now reflects the upcoming year and that point releases aren’t a thing anymore. Releases will come once a year, so 28 follows this one,
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A file manager is one of the most basic tools a Linux distribution comes with, and desktop environments ship their own, such as Nautilus on GNOME, Dolphin on KDE Plasma, and Nemo on Cinnamon. It is where people browse folders, move and
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Mozilla has a new product called Firefox Enterprise. Which is basically Firefox but built around the needs of private and government organizations. The idea is simple. If staff uses a browser for work, organizations should be able to control its settings, protect
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Remember Ubuntu’s convergence dream? One operating system across your desktop, tablet, and phone, with apps that adapt to whichever screen you’re using. Canonical pursued that vision with Unity 8 and Ubuntu Phone before pulling its investment in 2017. Now, a new project
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For most of its life, Linux has been built around one simple assumption. There’s a box; it has CPUs, memory, and devices, and the kernel manages them. Clusters exist, of course, but they’ve mostly been a problem for the layers above the
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ONLYOFFICE is rolling out AI tools across every editor in its suite, but the open source versions do not have them built in. The company says the choice came in response to user feedback, making it so that those versions would require
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