Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS is available for download, the first version of the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution to use System76’s all-new Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. It’s been a “long ride” to get here (building an entirely new Linux desktop, compositor, widget toolkit, and suite of first-party apps is no mean feat). System76 announced plans to build COSMIC in 2021, and a series of alpha and beta builds followed. Now, it’s out in orbit, joining the constellation of Linux distros (cheesy, eh). Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76, says the company is “proud of this contribution to the open source ecosystem”, and […]
MZLA Technologies Corporation has released Thunderbird 146, the latest monthly update for its famed open-source email client. Changes this month may sound less flashy compared to last month, which saw Thunderbird 145 add Microsoft Exchange support (albeit with some caveats, carveouts and a couple of capabilities still be added). Plus, work on readying Thunderbird Pro, the paid-for subscription-based webmail, appointment and file sending service excepted to cost upwards of $9/m, for a soft-launch continues. Those services are about to enter community testing. What’s New in Thunderbird 146? MZLA say logins are migrated to a more modern AES encryption standard in […]
Version 1.92.0 of Rust has been released. This release includes a number of stabilized APIs, emits unwind tables by default on Linux, validates input to #[macro_export], and much more. See the separate release notes for Rust, Cargo, and Clippy.
Our Larry Cafiero takes a look at Solus and its homegrown desktop Budgie, and discovers why it's one of the most popular scratch-built distros. The post Solus 4.8 ‘Opportunity’: An Independent Distro Struts Its Stuff appeared first on FOSS Force.
Pop!_OS 24.04 Linux distribution from System76 is now available for download with the first stable release of the COSMIC desktop environment. Here's what's new!
The first topic of discussion at the 2025 Maintainers Summit has been in the air for a while: what role — if any — should machine-learning-based tools have in the kernel development process? While there has been a fair amount of controversy around these tools, and concerns remain, it seems that the kernel community, or at least its high-level maintainership, is comfortable with these tools becoming a significant part of the development process.
As Linux Professional Institute (LPI), we love to highlight the voices of professionals who live and breathe open source. In this Share Your Voice interview, we hear from Taymour Elerian, an experienced Solutions Architect whose journey with Linux started in ... Read more The post Taymour’s Story: Scaling IT Skills Through Linux and Open Source appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
by George Whittaker Introduction The KDE community has just published KDE Gear 25.12, the newest quarterly update to its suite of applications. This refresh brings a mix of enhancements, bug fixes, performance refinements, and new features across many popular KDE apps, from Dolphin file manager and Konsole terminal to Krita and Spectacle. With this release, KDE continues its tradition of incremental yet meaningful upgrades that make everyday use smoother and more productive. KDE Gear updates are not limited to the KDE Plasma desktop; they also benefit users of other desktop environments who install KDE apps on their systems. Whether you’re running KDE on Linux, BSD, or even Windows via KDE Windows builds, Gear 25.12 delivers improvements worth checking out. Highlights from KDE Gear 25.12 Dolphin: Better File Browsing and Thumbnails Dolphin, KDE’s file manager, receives several enhancements in this update: Improved thumbnail generation for more file types, making previews quicker and mo
An acquisition announcement that flew under the radar yesterday but then I only noticed today with a GCC MAINTAINERS file update, "with the acquisition of Ventana Microsystems by Qualcomm..." Qualcomm has acquired Ventana as a RISC-V high performance CPU start-up...
Changes are afoot for Ubuntu’s opt-in, anonymous system telemetry gathering , including greater transparency with the open-sourcing of the server it’s sent to. Ubuntu 25.10 introduced Ubuntu Insights, a newer, more modern hardware metrics reporting service that is preinstalled alongside the distro’s existing Ubuntu Report tool. The former is used by those who upgrade to 25.10, the latter on new installs. With 26.04 LTS coming, Canonical would like to make Insights the default for all users, including those coming from versions with Ubuntu Report (i.e., Ubuntu 24.04 LTS), and re-seek consent. Telemetry makes folks twitchy so, lest anyone brandishes a […]
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