Building a Fedora release means tracking an enormous amount of formal change proposals planned for each release cycle on a public Change Set page, where every entry carries an owner and a status. These proposals undergo community review and require approval from
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Personally, I have never owned an Apple device, mostly due to its pricey nature and how the brand loves to lock people in their walled garden. But that’s just me ranting there for a bit. There are many who do like what
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Adobe charges $60 a month. Microsoft 365 keeps raising its price. Salesforce will take $150 per user without blinking. These are not tools you own. They are subscriptions that expire the moment you stop paying, often taking your files and workflows with
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govdigital eG has awarded IONOS a four-year framework contract under KoDaS, the abbreviation for a collaboration and file storage system. The service delivered under it is built on Nextcloud and sold as Nextcloud Workspace. It is meant for schools and school authorities
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Yet another new Linux distribution has landed on Arch Linux as its foundation of choice. This one is called Pond, and it is Butterfly Interaction Inc.’s vision of how a desktop should look and behave. For its desktop interface, it uses Niri,
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Okay, killed by Ubuntu is an exaggeration, as Ubuntu is not the only Linux distro doing this. Still, the big news is that Linux Mint is bringing hibernation back. In a recent blog post, the Mint team previewed a new Sleep Modes
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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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