Newsletter

This week we cover three big news: the latest release of Nextcloud Hub, the great increase in donations towards the open-source game engine Godot, and all the controversy surrounding Fedora's plans to drop X11 entirely! Nextcloud announces Hub 6 with AI Assistant and healthy meeting culture Nextcloud is a great

Criticism over Unity's new pricing, and Godot's new development fund This is about the proprietary game engine, not the open-source desktop environment. Unity has recently announced a new pricing plan which - I think - is both a great example of why relying on proprietary platforms is a considerable risk,

Microsoft is having issues following European regulations ...and it's pretty funny to watch. The first issue is pushing users into Edge; currently, Windows 11 opens its own browser if you click the Windows Widgets panel or any search result, completely ignoring the default browser selection. This violates some EU regulations,

KDE releases Apps update, with new Merkuro app suite KDE has released the KDE Gear 23.08, which contains updates to most KDE applications. One highlight of this release is the introduction of the "Merkuro" application suite, which will - soon - have Calendar, To-Dos, Contacts, and E-Mails covered. Merkuro

StarLabs announces 12.5" Linux Surface-Like device Surface-like devices are quite unique in the Linux world. There are a few out there; a couple of examples are the very low-end PineTab, and the now-dead JingPad. It's a form factor that not everybody likes and would use daily, but - speaking

System76 shares the plan for COSMIC customization System76 is currently working to create a new desktop environment from scratch, called COSMIC. We are receiving monthly updates on the work-in-progress, and the latest news goes in-depth about the customization options; in fact, it states that theming was a main focus for