It seems like Ubuntu cannot catch a break. Their entire web infrastructure was under continued DDoS attack for 5 days. Which seemed to be over now. But the misery is not. A few hours ago, there was a (now deleted) tweet from
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Before we dive into the topic at hand, you should know that Euro-Office is a new European productivity project by Nextcloud and IONOS, which was forked from ONLYOFFICE. It is a self-hosted, web-based office suite built for organizations and governments that want
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The Google Home Mini launched in 2017 as Google’s smallest, cheapest smart speaker. Millions were sold, handed out, and given away as promotional gifts. Many of them still work, but it being in the last phase of its lifecycle means that while
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Back in November 2025, Jan Vlug, a software engineer who writes for the Dutch government’s developer portal, put out a detailed blog recommending which Git forge the Netherlands should adopt for its governmental source code hosting needs. His post came at a
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📋 TLDR:– A 9-year-old bug was discovered recently.– The vulnerability is already patched in the Linux kernel.– Normal users could gain root access by running a small Python script.– Not much of a bother for regular desktop Linux users who keep their
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VS Code has been quietly appending a Co-authored-by: Copilot line to users’ git commits, including ones written entirely without Copilot’s involvement. The culprit behind this, git.addAICoAuthor, is a feature that was introduced in VS Code 1.110 back in March. It is designed
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OpenSource Science B.V., better known as OS-SCi, is a Netherlands-based institution that has a pretty specific focus. To train the next generation of developers exclusively on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). They run bachelor’s programs, modular courses, and student projects with
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Earlier this year, the Linux Mint project announced a significant shift in how it shipped releases, hinting at a longer cycle. Project lead Clement Lefebvre had pointed out that the existing pattern of a new release every six months, on top of
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Choice is one of the hallmarks of Linux, to the point that both “distro fever” and “distro fatigue” are alive in equal measure. Historically, Ubuntu has also been known the same. Different stroke for the wide range of folks who make Ubuntu
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Before Microsoft became the company that shipped Windows to corporate desks around the world, it had to start somewhere. That somewhere was a scrappy little operating system written by one guy at Seattle Computer Products. Tim Paterson built what he initially called
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