A Fedora Test Week Starts Sunday. Want to Help? Here’s How
Fedora is looking for a few good testers.
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Ubuntu Wants You to Test its Steam Snap
Remember when Ubuntu said it was getting serious about gaming? Well, it hasn’t forgotten entirely — it’s once again asking gamers to take part in a fresh bout of testing for its Steam snap. Steam is available on Ubuntu through traditional p…
OSI Email Mistake Could Affect Election Results
A seemingly unintentional factual error in a get-out-the-vote email sent by Open Source Initiative to its members could result in some members waiting until after the polls close to vote in the organizations current board of directors election.
The pos…
It’s Board Election Time at Open Source Initiative Again
If this is March, it must be election time at OSI. This year, two individual seats and one affiliate seat are in the running.
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12 Reasons to Attend This Year’s Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 20x)
Here’s a dozen reasons, in the form of a dozen items that are on this year’s schedule, to go to this year’s SCALE, which starts Thursday in Pasadena, California.
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Ubuntu Flavors Decide to Drop Flatpak
Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. In a surprise move, Ubuntu flavors have agreed to stop shipping Flatpak, preinstalled Flatpak apps, and any plugins needed to install Flatpak ap…
ATO’s ‘Open Source Charlotte’ to Hold Inaugural Event January 26
All Thing’s Open’s expansion into North Carolina’s largest city will be begin with a free Meetup by podcast host Mike Bifulco, and will be followed in March by this year’s Open Source 101.
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Ubuntu’s Education-Focused Flavour is Heading Back to Class
Edubuntu is a forgotten member of Ubuntu family focused on educators, schools & students. Now, 9 years on from its last release, it’s heading back to class.
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Registration for the (All New) Ubuntu Summit Opens Sept 1, 2022
You will be able to register to attend the revived Ubuntu Summit from September 1, 2022. A webpage to promote the 3-day in-person conference (which folks will be able to follow along with online) is live, ahead of the event itself being held in Prague,…
Microsoft Gives $10k to the GNOME Project (for Being Awesome, Basically)
The GNOME project is set to receive a $10,000 boost from Microsoft. But before anyone gets their underwear twisted there aren’t any strings attached. No acquisitions, no conditions, and certainly no embracing. So what’s the deal? Well, Micr…
GitHub Axes Atom Text Editor, Recommends VSCode Instead
GitHub is ‘sunsetting’ the Atom text editor later this year. No further development on the app is planned, and encourages users to seek out alternatives.
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Canonical Details Plans to Make the Firefox Snap, Snappier
I think most of us can agree that the Firefox Snap included in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS doesn’t start up nearly as fast as it could (or arguably should). Now, Canonical wants us to know that — and it wants us know that it’s doing something to fix i…
Canonical is Recruiting Devs for ‘Ubuntu Gaming’ Team
Anyone remember Ubuntu Gamer? It was a spin-off blog we launched way before Steam for Linux was a thing. Oops! But hey, here’s something related…
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GNOME Devs Help User Solve “Barking Laptop” Problem
Is your Ubuntu laptop barking at you? For one user it is, and it is worrying their actual dog. Confused, they turned to GNOME developers for assistance.
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Ubuntu Brings Back Its Iconic Developer Summit
Ubuntu is reviving an in-person event at which developers and distro enthusiasts can get together to plan, hack on, and find ways to help improve the project. The new “Ubuntu Summit” is going to be held this autumn in an as-yet unannounced …
These AI-Made Ubuntu Mascot Artworks are Incredible
I don’t understand neural networks work, much less how they go about drawing stuff without any hands, but boy am I blown away by the results they can produce. Every Ubuntu release has a codename composed of an adjective and an animal. These cute …
Xubuntu 22.04 Wallpaper Contest is Open For Entries
Submissions are now open for the Xubuntu 22.04 LTS wallpaper contest. Artists, photographers, and digital designers have until March 12th to submit up to 5 pieces of original work for potential inclusion in the Xubuntu 22.04 LTS release in April. The X…
Why Every Software Developer Needs to be a Part of an Open Source Community
Do you have a place where you can learn from a group of very experienced software developers? If not, why not? What’s stopping you?
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The Next Ubuntu Wallpaper Contest Needs to Focus on Quality
A new long-term support release of Ubuntu is on the way, and so too is a brand new Ubuntu wallpaper contest. In recent years long term support releases of Ubuntu have tended to include a “greatest hits” package of supplementary wallpapers, …
New Community Manager at OpenSource.com to Focus on Accessibility
AmyJune Hineline, Opensource.com’s new senior community manager, has a long history of involvement with open source communities, both as an advocate/manager and as a developer.
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