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Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 10, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users. The post In an Angry Fit, Dev ‘Sabotages’ OpenMandriva Repository appeared first on FOSS Force.
The only elephant in the room isn't in the oval office. For enterprises dependent on IT -- meaning every enterprise on the planet these days -- there's an elephant in every server and in every data center. Unless you're air-gapped, that's any code that's running. The post Lightwell: Red Hat’s and IBM’s AI Defense Against AI-Based Attacks appeared first on FOSS Force.
We get down and dirty with Collabora Office 26.04, the new desktop twin to Collabora Online, to see how it stacks up against LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Euro‑Office and, yes, Microsoft Office. The post Collabora Office 26.04 Takes On Open Source’s Office Disrupter Wannabes appeared first on FOSS Force.
Digital sovereignty is driving European governments off US clouds and onto homegrown open source options. The post Another German State Swaps Microsoft for ‘Born in the EU’ Open Source appeared first on FOSS Force.
Proprietary formats, rendering choices, and font restrictions don’t just create interoperability failures, they make open alternatives appear unreliable and keep institutions locked in. The post How Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken appeared first on FOSS Force.
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 3, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Version 2.5.21 introduces Kyber/ML‑KEM, tweaks internals for newer libraries, and signals that users should move off the now‑unsupported 2.4. The post GnuPG 2.5.21 Released With Kyber Support as 2.4 Reaches End of Life appeared first on FOSS Force.
GCC's latest and greatest is available at https://sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-14.4.0/ and https://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html/. The post GNU Ships GCC 14.4 as a Bug-Fix Release appeared first on FOSS Force.
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 26, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
The name Akrites is derived from Akritai -- the Byzantine Empire’s frontier guardians, who stood watch where threats arrived first and defenses were thinnest. The post Akrites Puts Up a United Front Against AI-Wielding Black Hats appeared first on FOSS Force.
Think today’s Gimp is complicated? Try the 1996 Motif version, now resurrected as a Flatpak so you can suffer for nostalgia’s sake. The post It’s 1996 All Over Again on the New GIMP 0.54 Flatpak appeared first on FOSS Force.
There are two ways to contribute to FOSS Force. The first way is to make a donation to our GoFundMe FOSS Force 2026 Independence Drive. The other is to sign up for Linux Foundation training, and let the foundation make a "donation" for you. The post Get Linux Certification and Help Fund FOSS Force All at Once! appeared first on FOSS Force.
We remain behind on our 2026 fundraising goals and are resetting our efforts to restore regular contributor support. The post Latest Update on Our FOSS Force 2026 Independence Fundraising Drive appeared first on FOSS Force.
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