OwnCloud Dropbox Alternative Merges With Proprietary Kiteworks
Terms of this three-way merger that also includes Dracoon have not been disclosed.
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First Look at Ubuntu 23.10 on Raspberry Pi 5
My Raspberry Pi 5 finally arrived yesterday, so the first thing I did after I set it up was to try various GNU/Linux distributions, ending up with Canonical’s latest Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) release. Expect this to be a review of both software an…
Doordash Does a Thing for Safety and Wants Credit for Doing What Should Be Expected
DoorDash thinks we’re supposed to be impressed that it’s working to keep its drivers safe. We ask, isn’t that just what they should be expected to do? We have a suggestion about something they should do if they really want to impress us with their effo…
Nextcloud Unveils Hub 6: More than a FOSS Replacement for Microsoft 365 Business Standard
Saturday morning at the Nextcloud Conference in Berlin, Nextcloud announced the release of Nextcloud Hub 6, which is the latest and greatest version of the…
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FOSS Week In Review: ZFS’s Ubuntu Return, the Nigerian Prince Goes AI, Stolen Passwords, Torvalds Does Hutton, and More
In this week’s roundup we look at ZFS’s return to Ubuntu as an install option (and why it was removed in the first place), how the Nigerian Prince is adopting AI for phishing, Linux Torvalds fabulous impersonation of E.F. Hutton, and more.
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FOSS Week in Review: LibreOffice Fixes Bugs, KDE Release Plans, Automakers ‘F’ on Privacy, and more…
In this week’s roundup, we look at the winding down of LibreOffice’s 7.5 series, how KDE’s getting it together for Plasma’s upcoming 6.0 release, Mozilla’s look at privacy issues and modern automobiles, and more.
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KDE Gear 23.08 Arrived With Plenty of Changes: Here’s What’s New
In many ways, KDE Gear’s apps supply the backbone on the Linux desktop experience. Newly released KDE Gear 23.08 brings many changes to these apps, and we look at them here.
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FOSS Week in Review: Kali Cleans House, Kalendar Becomes Merkuro, Brave’s Unfree Assistant, & More…
The cryptocurrency funded Brave Browser has a new proprietary AI assistant; new versions of Kali, KDE Gear, and LibreOffice; with changes on the way in The Document Foundation’s versioning scheme.
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Fork of LXD Lands Almost Immediately as Linux Containers’ Newest Project
About a month after Canonical pulled LXD from Linux Containers, with the ‘LXD community experiment’ evidently being labeled internally as a ‘failure’ by Ubuntu, the code is forked and almost immediately accepted as a project at Linux Containers.
The po…
FOSS Week in Review: Slackware Turns 30, Mageia 9 Coming Soon, & LibreOffice 7.5.5
In this week’s column we wish Slackware a happy 30th birthday, look forward to the soon to be landing Mageia 9, and get the bugs out of LibreOffice 7.5.5.
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MariaDB’s Stock Exchange Woes For Dummies
The New York Stock Exchange doesn’t like it when your stock dips below a dollar.
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Red Hat’s Impact on Free Software and Open Source Values
In this in-depth review of Red Hat’s recent move, learn about its impact on free software and open source values.
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Snap-Based Immutable Ubuntu Coming as Flathub Downloads Pass the Billion Mark
As Canonical readies a new Snap-driven version of Ubuntu desktop, Flatpak downloads keep growing and growing and growing…
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Mirantis Pushes Security With Its New k0s 1.27 Kubernetes Release
Mirantis has released k0s 1.27 as the latest and greatest version of its open-source Kubernetes distribution. With this release, the focus seems to be on security.
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Why It Was Important to Translate Linux Foundation Training Manuals to Ukrainian
The software industry plays a large role in Ukraine’s economy, with many Ukrainian developers working remotely from Ukraine for software vendors located in the EU, UK, and US. Training manuals in the Ukrainian language will help veterans of Ukraine’s m…
Nextcloud Gaining Regulatory Upper Hand Over Microsoft and Google in Germany and the EU
Nextcloud announced on Wednesday that it now has a SharePoint replacement ready for production use, and that Deutsche Telekom has made Nextcloud Office available to the users of MagentaCLOUD.
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Harmonoid: A Beautiful Cross-Platform Music Player With Essential Features
A beautiful open-source cross-platform music player with a good feature set like lyrics display and upload, library management and more.
Convert and Manipulate Images With ‘Converter’ GUI Tool in Linux
A GUI front-end to ImageMagick to convert and manipulate images on Linux. Learn more about using this nifty tool.
5 NeoVim GUI Editors You Could Try If You are Not a Total Terminal Junkie
Looking for the GUI comfort for NeoVim? Here are a few projects that give a graphical interface to the awesome NeoVim editor.
Rnote: An Open-Source Drawing App for Notes and Annotation
Rnote is an excellent app for sketching and taking handwritten notes. Check it out here.