The MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio License has been in effect since January 1, 2000, covering essential patents behind the MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual standard from more than 30 licensors, including Canon, LG, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba. As of July 19, 2026,
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I already shared my experience with the Niri window manager in another post. Its scrollable workspace model is clever. Then I stumbled across MangoWM, and I couldn’t leave it alone because it offers a similar scrolling mode as compared to Niri, plus
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Michael Catanzaro is stepping away from managing GNOME’s security issue tracking, a role he has held largely by himself since November 2020, with support from Red Hat. He calls the work mostly administrative, following each report from the moment it lands to
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It’s been nearly five years since Alacritty made its debut and became a favorite of many power terminal users. By power users, I mean people who configure Vi mode everywhere, even in graphical IDE. Personally, I prefer Kitty and I have written
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Humble Bundle and O’Reilly have put together a pay-what-you-want Linux collection called Linux: All the Things (partner link), and it’s built to take you from basic command-line comfort to container orchestration across fifteen eBooks. O’Reilly doesn’t really need an introduction. They are
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An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release, bringing about a mix of refinements that touch keyboard shortcuts, remote transcription, and Wayland reliability. We kick things off with the most important usability addition. Earlier,
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