If you ask me, Microsoft has been one of the biggest driving forces behind Linux adoption in recent years. The way they’ve been handling Windows, with its forced updates, aggressive telemetry, and questionable AI features, has sent more people to Linux than
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Mastodon is a decentralized social network built on the ActivityPub protocol. Unlike Big Tech platforms, it operates as a federated network where users can choose or host their own servers. The key advantage is that no single entity controls your data or
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Your favorite apps run on code maintained by exhausted volunteers. The databases powering your company? Built by developers working double shifts. Those JavaScript frameworks everyone depends on? Often shepherded by a single person, unpaid, drowning in demands. A new report reveals just
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RustDesk has positioned itself as a compelling open source alternative to proprietary remote desktop solutions like TeamViewer and AnyDesk. Built with Rust and licensed under AGPL 3.0, it offers cross-platform support across Linux, Android, Windows, macOS, and iOS. The project has now
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I rely heavily on GNOME extensions for my daily workflow. From Dash to Dock for quick app launching to Tiling Shell to effortlessly manage app windows while working. These basically turn the vanilla GNOME experience into something that truly fits my needs.
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Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, has open-sourced Valdi, a cross-platform mobile UI framework. The social media company typically keeps its technology in-house, but this marks a surprising move into open source territory. While there was no dedicated announcement for this on
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If you’re like me, you probably grew up with the classic Linux command-line tools such as ls, cat, du. These commands have carried me through countless scripts and late-night debugging sessions. Here’s the thing. While these tools do their job, they can
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Firefox has been pushing AI features for a while now. Over the past year, they’ve added AI chatbots in the sidebar, automatic alt text generation, and AI-enhanced tab grouping. It is basically their way of keeping up with Chrome and Edge, both
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Ubuntu is Canonical’s flagship Linux distribution that powers a significant portion of the information technology infrastructure today. It has two major versions: an interim release that comes with nine months of support and a long-term support release that comes with five years
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FFmpeg maintainers have publicly criticized Google after its AI tool reported a security bug in code for a 1995 video game. The maintainers called the finding “CVE slop” and questioned whether trillion-dollar corporations should use AI to find security issues in volunteer
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