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RHEL Summit, KDE Plasma working on HDR, better GNOME settings, and more!

The Red Hat Summit is into the second to last day, KDE Plasma announces preliminary HDR support and Kubuntu will releases new Laptop. Keyboard driven browser Nyxt and GNOME settings gets updates. Fedora Budgie Onyx spin has been confirmed! Red Hat Summit 2023 is LIVE! The Red Hat Summit is

Cosmic DE now has panels, BlueSky open-sourced their app, and more!

The latest COSMIC DE update features panels, settings, and more The monthly update on the COSMIC desktop development is out, and it contains lots of user-facing improvements. The first big one is panels that can be freely customized; that is, you can move them around, change their size, have multiple

Big KDE Plasma 6 news, Firefox 113 & 114, Fly-Pie everywhere, and more!

KDE sprint focused on Plasma 6 During the last week, many KDE developers attended a sprint in Germany with the goal of shaping up the next Plasma release. Now that it has finished, we have many attendees publishing their work on their personal blogs, meaning we can some insight into

Mastodon get BETTER, Krita reflects on 2022, and more!

Mastodon is bringing easier onboarding, quote posts, and more As you can see in the image above, Mastodon has decided to make it easier to join the Fediverse by suggesting mastodon.social as a default option (still allowing any custom server to be picked). This will make it easier for

GIMP ported to GTK3, BlendOS 2, Plasma 6 ISO, and more!

GIMP has been ported to GTK3 And after another month, I merged the branch to our main development branch. The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished (apart from minor deprecated API here and there, but no huge tasks anymore)!!! 🥳🎉🥂 I even already updated the roadmap which now says

ChatGPT in YOUR Terminal

Ai and ChatGPT is possible in your Windows, macOS, and Linux terminal! In this video we cover a small utility called tgpt that will allow you to run Ai prompts in your terminal without the need for API keys. From their GitHub page the application is described as; "a cross-platform

Fedora 38, Proton 8, Vivaldi 6, Deepin 20.9, and more

This was a week packed with major releases of various projects. In this newsletter issue, I'll cover the releases from Fedora, Proton by Valve, the Vivaldi browser, Deepin (though the release is 20.9 and not 23), and digiKam (KDE's photo management application). Fedora 38 released, with new spins and

Linux Mint introduces Styles, System76 works on COSMIC, and more!

Linux Mint introduces Styles and Color Variants Up until now, in Linux Mint you could only choose your theme and that was it. In March, the developers decided to introduce a more complex (and powerful) way to customize their system, which relies on three elements: "styles", "modes" and "variants". Quoting

Pine64 announces RISC-V tablet, System76 announces in-house laptop, and more!

This week there's a lot of Linux hardware news! We start off with Pine64 providing great news for three devices: the PineNote (e-ink tablet), the PineTab 2, and the new "PineTab V" (which is the PineTab 2, but with a RISC-V board). Then, there's System76 announcing they're working on an

New Framework laptops, GNOME 44, Wayland screen sharing, and more!

Framework announces new 16" modular gaming laptop, revamps 13" one too Framework is a hardware company that makes "modular" laptops: very easy to take apart and with little blocks to attach on the sides to customize the IO of the devices. They're either sold pre-built, or in a "DIY Edition"

Nextcloud announces Hub 4 with AI Tools for everyone, a Sharepoint alternative, and more!

Hub 4 introduces AI Tools in Nextcloud We are currently witnessing a race by big companies to introduce AI tools in their "office" ecosystems. Microsoft, as an example, has announced a "Copilot" that will be able to generate text for Word and interact with other Office365 apps; Google also announced

The Future of AI NEEDS to Deal with Copyright Laws

Regardless of how you feel about AI, it’s clear that something is going wrong. This is how the ArtStation main page looks at the time of writing: The same “No AI” images could be found on DeviantArt and have been tweeted by many artist accounts, even by KDE’s

KDE Konsole on Windows, GNOME Image Viewer improvements, and more!

KDE has managed to port Konsole to Windows 11, and for a good reason; A GNOME Image Viewer application has refactored image decoding, with many user-facing improvements; Meta is considering joining the Fediverse through ActivityPub: there's a lot going on! However, I'll start with a major release (2.0) of

VanillaOS 2.0 announced, Nitrux 2.7 released, and more!

This week is full of Distro news. Firstly there's the announcement of the next version of VanillaOS, which will officially drop Ubuntu to be instead based on Debian. Which, by the way, is also working on their next release, called Bookwork, and which will include Plasma 5.27. The Nitrux