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An unfinished Collabora trial has been cast as an open source failure. The timeline tells a different story. The post Denmark’s Digital Sovereignty Effort Stalls Amid Government Shakeup appeared first on FOSS Force.
I wasn’t sure Docker would work on my old Raspberry Pi — it did, and now I have big plans.
Myrlyn 1.1 improves openSUSE package management with repository-wide package protection, reboot notifications, new filters, and version comparisons.
The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out...
Just three days after version 5.4, Noctalia 5.4.1 arrives with important security fixes, encrypted notifications, and new features.
Do you know why programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25
openEuler is pushing for a developer focused Linux distro with AI at its core. From PolyMind to Witty, the AI agents are part of the package.
Tor Browser 16.0 is now available for download as a major update to this open-source anonymous web browser based on the Tor technologies and Firefox web browser with ARM support on Linux and more.
Fedora 45 is ready to ship! It will be formally released on Tuesday, 3 November...
Core Desktop could run apps that can’t run natively in a sandbox, while linux-firmware-hwe is proposed as a safeguard against newer firmware causing problems.
There is a Linux distro for everyone.
Tor Browser 16.0 adds native Linux ARM64 support, redesigned settings, improved privacy controls, and a Firefox ESR 153 base.
by George Whittaker The KDE Project has released KDE Plasma 6.8.2, delivering another round of stability improvements for its Wayland-based Linux desktop environment. Released on October 27, 2026, the update arrives one week after Plasma 6.8.1 and two weeks after the anniversary release of Plasma 6.8, which marked 30 years since the KDE project's founding. This second maintenance release concentrates on correcting regressions discovered after the initial rollout. The largest collection of changes targets KWin, KDE's window manager and Wayland compositor, with fixes involving multi-GPU synchronization, display handling, pointer constraints, color pipelines, and window stacking. Additional improvements address disappearing desktop icons, application launcher behavior, remote desktop sessions, screen recording, accessibility, and system monitoring. Although Plasma 6.8.2 does not introduce major new desktop features, its corrections are particularly important because Plasma 6.8 completed K
fireperf is a new open-source network performance measurement tool for those who work with firewalls, routers, and other systems that maintain a state for each network connection.
The new TUXEDO Nano Pro Gen15 combines a 16-core Intel processor, up to 128GB DDR5 RAM, and PCIe 5.0 storage in a compact design.
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