When it comes to open-source office suites, we’re not short on options, despite what it may seem at first glance. Yet, without a doubt, two names stand head and shoulders above all others. LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE sit unchallenged as the most popular
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Ubuntu MATE creator Martin Wimpress has announced that he no longer has the passion he once had, nor the time, to work on the project: As another development cycle passes, I find myself lacking the time I once had to work on
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” is not out yet, but its release notes have an unexpected change that missed my eyes completely. Canonical has bumped the minimum RAM requirement for Ubuntu Desktop to 6 GB for this upcoming LTS release. While it
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PINE64 has built a reputation for delivering open source hardware to people who actually care about what runs on their devices. From single-board computers like the ROCKPro64 and the RISC-V powered STAR64 to Linux smartphones like the PinePhone, the company has been
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If you’ve recently dipped your toes into the world of immutable Linux distributions like Fedora Silverblue, openSUSE MicroOS, or even the Steam Deck, you’ll encounter this issue eventually. You try to perform a basic task, like adding a custom script to /usr/bin
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There is a new merge on the Wayland GitLab repo. This new merge (of an old pull request) adds xdg-session-management protocol to Wayland. This is a big development and certainly a feature Linux users will enjoy. As per the brief message in
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For years, many Ubuntu users have felt that traditional .deb packages were being gradually sidelined in favor of the Snap ecosystem. It started quietly. Double-clicking a downloaded .deb file would open it in Archive Manager instead of the installer. Then came controversial
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Canonical engineer Julian Andres Klode, who works on Ubuntu’s secure boot signing, has put forward a proposal on Ubuntu’s community forums to significantly cut down the GRUB bootloader for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10. The proposal takes aim at GRUB’s parsers, which Julian
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For regulars in the open source space, Ubuntu is kind of a household name that introduced many to the diverse world of Linux, where you have all kinds of flavors. Want some work done? You have Fedora. Want to earn the rights
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Age verification has suddenly become the most heated topic in the Linux world and it’s not slowing down anytime soon. Distributions are already picking sides. Void and Garuda Linux have outright rejected the idea. The privacy-focused Android distro GrapheneOS isn’t entertaining it
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