Firefox 155 has arrived quietly, speeding up page loads with Happy Eyeballs v3 and QUIC v2. And the timing is perfect for you to switch. Google just removed uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store, leaving Firefox one of the last non-Chromium
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Omarchy has been on something of a roll now. Funding for its foundation has been climbing fast, from an $8 million launch to $10 million a few weeks later, and now crossing $13 million with the most recent pledge. What’s drawn my
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Debian has gotten some good press thanks to Federico Vaga and Nikos Tsipinakis, who presented a talk at MiniDebConf Winterthur this past weekend. The two CERN engineers laid out why the organization is moving its particle accelerator control computers onto Debian 13,
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Gaming on Linux keeps getting better, Wine and the Proton compatibility layer keep opening up more of the Windows catalog, and community projects continue filling the gaps that big publishers leave behind. Take Xodus, for instance. The open source effort is looking
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If your Raspberry Pi can no longer connect to Wi-Fi because the SSID or password changed, you can update the Wi-Fi configuration directly from its SD card. This helps when you cannot connect the device to a monitor and keyboard. That’s what
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My history with Vanilla OS goes back to 2022, when I covered its debut stable release, just a month after I landed this gig at It’s FOSS (yapping about open source and Linux). Since then, my focus has moved to other distros
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Auke Kok spent eight years working on Clear Linux OS at Intel. Now he thinks he knows exactly what broke it, and he’s trying to fix that by himself. In a LinkedIn post this week, Auke, now a Linux Distribution Architect at
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In a very low-key manner, Firefox 155 has arrived as the latest stable release for the popular privacy-focused web browser. While there are a range of refinements with this release, we will be focusing on two technical ones that change how Firefox
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Zack Bartel is a developer who switched to Linux full time and hasn’t really looked back at his earlier daily driver, macOS, as something he would return to. There is, however, an exception. Continuity. That is Apple’s catch-all term for how iPhone,
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If the past few weeks are any indication, more and more open source projects are drawing lines around how much AI they will let into their workflow and codebases before it’s too much. Debian just voted to allow generative AI in project
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