At least that’s what VLC thinks when protesting the new French law. France’s National Assembly has voted in favour of a new “internet tax” that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France. The idea is
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Remember Wubi from the 2000s? For people who were afraid of going into BIOS and booting from CD/DVD/USB, Wubi provided an easy way to install Ubuntu Linux straight from Windows. This concept has made a comeback in the form of Libertix although
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“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.” That’s often true, and it’s doubly true for VPNs. A VPN service could see all your traffic, so a shady free VPN is worse than no VPN at all. But
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Collabora has published its own account of the Danish ministry pilot that earlier coverage, including ours, had described as Denmark moving off Microsoft’s office software. The ministry’s own launch release had described it as a test by a group of employees in
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Canonical has restarted development of Ubuntu Core Desktop, an immutable, snap-based take on Ubuntu that sat dormant after a developer preview in 2023. Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP Engineering for Ubuntu, says a dedicated team is now working on it. The objective is
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Amutable has opened signups for design partners to test an immutable, image-based system that ships every change as a signed update. Built by the engineers behind systemd, it uses hardware attestations to verify each machine’s state before allowing deployments. Gregory Kurtzer’s Ginux
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openEuler has two fresh releases out. 24.03 LTS SP4 arrived in July 2026, and the short-term 26.09 innovation release followed on October 1. We covered openEuler 24.03 LTS when it came out in 2024. Two years later, that LTS version is still
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The Reuters proclaimed that the AI bubble has already burst in China. Chinese AI and chip stocks have lost about $480 billion in value. In the West, Amazon has put most of its Nova models on “keep the lights on” mode. And
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For Linux veterans, printers can induce nightmares. Although, lately, printer support has vastly improved on Linux, at least for the newer models. Last week, I got my hands on Jadens JD-166, which is very different from all the printers I have used
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Ghostty is a terminal emulator from HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto that implements GPU acceleration while maintaining a native look on each supported platform. On Linux, the app uses GTK, whereas on macOS, the app uses Swift. The project claims it has millions
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