Microsoft updates AI chat template for cloud app dev
Microsoft is now offering a second preview of its .NET AI Chat Web App template. This update is intended to make it easier to build cloud-native, AI-powered chat applications via support for the .NET Aspire cloud-ready stack for building distributed a...
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 Call for Speakers
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Speakers for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 is now open. The event will take place from August 29 to 31, 2025 in Faridabad, India. This summit is an excellent opportunity to share your expertise, ideas, and e...
WordPress Jubilee
As I said, we’re dropping all the human blocks. Community guidelines, directory guidelines, and such will need to be followed going forward, but whatever blocks were in place before are now cleared. It may take a few days, but any pre-existing blocks...
Ghostty DEBs Now Available for Ubuntu 25.04
Ghostty terminal fans needn’t fear an upgrade to Ubuntu’s latest release, as a community packaging effort just added Ghostty DEB packages for Ubuntu 25.04. The Ghostty Ubuntu project was set up was the aim of providing “Ubuntu/Debian (.deb) packa...
Ghostty DEB Installers Now Available for Ubuntu 25.04
Ghostty terminal fans needn’t fear an upgrade to Ubuntu’s latest release, as a community packaging effort just added Ghostty DEB packages for Ubuntu 25.04. The Ghostty Ubuntu project was set up was the aim of providing “Ubuntu/Debian (.deb) packa...
Thanks again to our outgoing sponsor: Nova Custom
We’d like to thank our outgoing sponsor, Nova Custom, for sponsoring OSNews! Nova Custom, based in The Netherlands, makes laptops focused on privacy, customisation, and freedom. Nova Custom laptops ship with either Linux, Windows, or no operating sys...
“How I use Kate Editor”
I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do. Kate has been around for long time now, about 20 years! At least earliest blog post for it I could find was written in 2004. I wanted to go over my workflow with i...
Understanding application modernization
In today’s digital-first economy, businesses face relentless pressure to innovate. Legacy applications, often built on outdated architectures like monolithic systems or on-premises infrastructure, struggle to meet modern demands for agility, scalabi...
What GitHub can tell us about the future of open source
In its earliest days, open source tended to imitate and commoditize high-priced proprietary software (Linux for Unix, JBoss for BEA WebLogic, etc.). Today open source commands the role of innovator, not imitator. From cloud infrastructure and devops a...
The Fedora Project history and family tree
This article provides a short overview and history of the Fedora Project. Introduction The Fedora Project has become known for Linux innovation. Since its inception in 2003, Fedora has been a proving ground where new ideas in Linux are tested and refin...
Parallels Desktop 20.3 Brings Linux VM Fixes to Mac Users
The fourth major release in the Parallels Desktop 20 series has been released, bringing a stack of fixes for running Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines on macOS. Yes, I did say macOS. I know; at first blush it seems odd for an Ubuntu blog to cov...
Blue95 Topanga released with Paint and Plus! clones
Only a few weeks ago we talked about Blue95, a Fedora-based distribution focused on bringing the Windows 95 look to the Linux world by integrating a set of existing Windows 95 Xfce themes. Since Fedora 42 has just been released, the Blue95 project also...
LXQt 2.2.0 released
LXQt, the Qt-based alternative to KDE as Xfce is the GTK-based alternative to GNOME, has released version 2.2.0. LXQt is in the middle of its transition to Wayland, and as such, this release brings a number of fixes and improvements for Wayland, like i...
11 Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 25.04
The Ubuntu 25.04 release is packed full of fresh features, updated apps and other upgrades that deliver a practical, pleasing out-of-the-box experience. —Perhaps not a perfect one, though. I just installed Ubuntu 25.04 on my “couch potato” laptop...
Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash hybrid reasoning model
Google has introduced an early preview of its Gemini 2.5 Flash hybrid reasoning model. An early version of the model is available through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, according to an April 17 Google blog post. Gemini 2.5 Flash bu...
Learning how to measure genAI’s impact
Top picks for generative AI readers on InfoWorld AI will require more software developers, not fewerData show AI assistants make it significantly faster and easier to develop software, spurring companies to tackle more software projects—and (surpris...
How U.S. tariffs could impact cloud computing
The cloud computing industry has long been the backbone of digital transformation. In 2022 alone, this sector surpassed $480 billion in global valuation, and its growth trajectory remains strong. However, like any other industry that relies on physica...
