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With Euro-Office due on Tuesday, and LibreOffice Online back in development, Collabora has plenty on the line with this new release. The post Collabora CODE 26.04: AI, Better Collab, in a Bid to Stay Ahead appeared first on FOSS Force.
The Document Foundation disputes Euro-Office’s “first European open-source office suite” claim and criticizes its OOXML default.
Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some concerns among users, but the plan is still for Ubuntu MATE to continue moving forward...
Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware...
Rspamd 4.1 lands with redesigned MX checks, load-aware upstreams, dynamic composites, stronger diagnostics, and broad security hardening.
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Can an unused machine really work as a lightweight Linux desktop?
Linux's ufshcd-pci as the Universal Flash Storage host controller PCI driver has supported a variety of Intel devices to this point while for Linux 7.2 the first AMD device is set to be added...
Proton confirms it is actively building a native Drive client for Linux, using its new SDK to bring encrypted file sync closer to desktop users.
In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein updated attendees on the fanotify filesystem-event monitoring subsystem. He wanted to describe changes that had come in the last year or so, as well as upcoming features and some remaining challenges in his efforts to use fanotify for hierarchical storage management (HSM). Fanotify is the user-space API for monitoring files, directories, and filesystems for events of various sorts (e.g. opening or deleting a file).
An open letter from the Document Foundation argues that Euro-Office isn’t what it claims—and may reinforce Microsoft’s ecosystem instead. The post LibreOffice Weighs In on Euro-Office and EU Digital Sovereignty appeared first on FOSS Force.
OpenCV 5.0 debuts a new DNN engine, broader ONNX support, VLM inference, C++17 requirements, and legacy API cleanup.
Euro-Office launches its stable 1.0 release on June 9, billed as a ‘truly open’ sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office – a claim riling The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice. In an open letter published today, TDF’s Italo Vignoli takes issue with the upstart productivity suite’s pitch. He disputes Euro-Office’s marketing, which he says positions it as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. It’s historically inaccurate as OpenOffice.org got there in 2001, followed by LibreOffice from 2010. But he calls out another issue. The European Union is making a big push for digital sovereignty, cutting down on how much […]
A new open source portal seeks to coordinate and scale open source efforts across the United Nations system.
Andrew Tridgell has announced the release of rsync 3.4.4 with fixes for the regressions introduced in the 3.4.3 release. He also notes there will be an rsync 3.5.0 soon, with many more security updates: As part of the 3.5.0 release update I have created a rsync-security@lists.samba.org mailing list for anyone who is willing to do testing of the 3.5.0 release. The idea is to try to reduce the chance of more regressions by expanding the set of testers of this release. I have seeded it with people who were involved in past rsync security issues. If you want to join this list then the easiest way would be for you to be vouched for by someone on the distros@vs.openwall.org list or someone else I already trust. My apologies for the regressions in the 3.4.3 release and I hope future security updates for rsync will have less issues. The greatly expanded test suite in rsync 3.5 combined with the rsync-security mailing list should help.
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