This Rubbish Icon Might Get a Makeover in Ubuntu 25.10
Ubuntu's trash icon may get a makeover in 25.10. Yaru icon theme designers are working on a new look to improve desktop consistency. You're reading This Rubbish Icon Might Get a Makeover in Ubuntu 25.10, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce e...
Kubuntu 25.10 Drops X11 Session for Wayland-Only Install
Kubuntu 25.10 will not ship with an X11 desktop session on its ISO, following Ubuntu's lead. An X11 Plasma session will remain available for manual install. You're reading Kubuntu 25.10 Drops X11 Session for Wayland-Only Install, a blog post from OMG! ...
Kubuntu 25.10 Won’t Include an X11 Session by Default
Kubuntu 25.10 will not ship with an X11 desktop session on its ISO, following Ubuntu's lead. An X11 Plasma session will remain available for manual install. You're reading Kubuntu 25.10 Won’t Include an X11 Session by Default, a blog post from OMG! U...
Kubuntu 25.10 Won’t Come with a Plasma X11 Session
Kubuntu 25.10 will not ship with an X11 desktop session on its ISO, following Ubuntu's lead. An X11 Plasma session will remain available for manual install. You're reading Kubuntu 25.10 Won’t Come with a Plasma X11 Session, a blog post from OMG! Ubun...
YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures
Over the past few months, YouTube has been trying another round of anti-adblock measures. Currently the anti-adblock stuff is being A/B tested, and one of my accounts is in the experimental group. I wrote a filter that partially avoids one of the anti-...
Cosmoe, BeOS/Haiku on Linux, returns from 18 year hiatus
It’s 2025, and we’re going to talk about BeOS, AtheOS, Cosmoe, and OpenBeOS, all in one news item, right here, right now, on OSNews. In the very early 2000s, Cosmoe was a unique project that started out as a merger of the AtheOS userland with the L...
rou2exOS: a DOS-like hobby operating system written in Rust
rou2exOS is a 64-bit DOS-like operating system (OS). The system is mainly written in Rust, but some portion of x86 assembly is used as well (inline + freestanding code for the stage2 kernel loading). ↫ Blog post about rou2exOS at blog.vxn.dev It can ...
Thunderbird Mobile Progress Report: May 2025
Thunderbird for iOS We’re growing a few more stars! We’re so happy to hear there is great interest in Thunderbird for iOS, and hope to reach a stage soon where you all can be more involved. Thank you, also, to those of you who’ve submitted an inc...
ONLYOFFICE 9.0 Released with New Themes, AI Tools + More
A new version of open source productivity suite ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is available, packed out with another round of welcome improvements. ONLYOFFICE 9.0 introduces two new theme options: Modern Light and Modern Dark. Both offer restyled UI elemen...
Grace Hopper to Boost Tumbleweed Armv9 Builds
Grace Hopper to Boost Tumbleweed Armv9 Builds The openSUSE Project is preparing to expand its hardware capabilities with a high-performance system designed to accelerate support for the next generation of processor architecture. As part of a collaborat...
Developers set the pace for genAI tools adoption
The increasingly weird interactions between everyday people and ChatGPT may make more headlines, but developers are setting the pace for AI’s future. Whether it’s coding assistants auditioning (sometimes erratically) as copilots, development platf...
The hyperscalers disrupt the sovereign cloud disruptors
The fast-paced world of cloud computing is a continuous cycle of innovation and disruption. Most recently, sovereign cloud startups have stepped into the spotlight, offering specialized cloud services with a focus on sovereignty to address pressing co...
