Open Source

LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 Released With Various File Performance Improvements
The first release candidate of the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing. This half-year update as the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office has been working on performance improvements for various file ...
2025-07-10 08:38
Canonical Releases Multipass 1.16 As Now Fully Open-Source Project
Ubuntu maker Canonical today released Multipass 1.16 stable for this Linux / Windows / macOS means of deploying Ubuntu VM instances using this lightweight VM manager built atop Linux's KVM, Windows' Hyper-V, and QEMU on macOS. Notable with Multipass 1....
2025-07-10 08:25
Project Seeks Input on Future of 32-bit ARM
The openSUSE Project is seeking community input to determine whether it should continue supporting 32-bit ARM architectures. Maintaining support for legacy platforms is increasingly challenging. The openSUSE team cited limited upstream support and dwin...
2025-07-10 07:00
Linux 6.17 Looks To Drop The pktcdvd Packet Writing CD/DVD Driver
Linux block maintainer Jens Axboe queued up a patch this week to drop the pktcdvd driver from the mainline kernel, which is expected to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle. The pktcdvd driver has been in the kernel for over two decades since...
2025-07-10 06:50
openSUSE Is Deciding Whether To End 32-bit ARM Support
The openSUSE project is currently contemplating if it's time to end support for 32-bit ARM devices...
2025-07-10 06:20
libinput 1.29 Improving Scroll Wheel Responsiveness For Most Devices
Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.29, the newest version of this input handling library used across both X.Org and Wayland environments with the modern Linux desktop...
2025-07-10 06:06
So many ranges, so little time: A cheatsheet of animation-ranges for your next scroll-driven animation
Background If you’re new to scroll-driven animations, welcome!
2025-07-09 23:25
Google releases Gemma 3n models for on-device AI
Google has released its Gemma 3n AI model, positioned as an advancement for on-device AI and bringing multimodal capabilities and higher performance to edge devices. Previewed in May, Gemma 3n is multimodal by design, with native support for image, au...
2025-07-09 23:22
Miracle-WM 0.6 Released with More Refinements
Miracle-wm, a Mir-based Wayland compositor and tiling window manager, has picked up new features in its latest release. Details and how to install inside. You're reading Miracle-WM 0.6 Released with More Refinements, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do no...
2025-07-09 22:59
Miracle-WM 0.6 Release Brings More Refinements
Miracle-wm, a Mir-based Wayland compositor and tiling window manager, has picked up new features in its latest release. Details and how to install inside. You're reading Miracle-WM 0.6 Release Brings More Refinements, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do n...
2025-07-09 22:59
Miracle-WM 0.6 Released with Further Refinements
Fans of tiling window managers which aren’t Sway, Hyprland or i3 may be keen to kick the proverbial tyres on the latest version of miracle-wm, which is now available. Miracle-WM 0.6 is a bumper update to the Mir-based Wayland compositor developed by ...
2025-07-09 22:59
Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
The year is 2013 and I am hopping mad. systemd is replacing my plaintext logs with a binary format and pumping steroids into init and it is laughing at me. The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU p...
2025-07-09 22:28
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Introducing Skia Graphite: Chrome’s rasterization backend for the future
In Chrome, Skia is used to render paint commands from Blink and the browser UI into pixels on your screen, a process called rasterization. Skia has powered Chrome Graphics since the very beginning. Skia eventually ran into performance issues as the we...
2025-07-09 21:48
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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 223
Safari Technology Preview Release 223 is now available for download for macOS Tahoe and macOS Sequoia.
2025-07-09 21:30
GlobalFoundries acquires MIPS
GlobalFoundries today announced a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS, a leading supplier of AI and processor IP. This strategic acquisition will expand GF’s portfolio of customizable IP offerings, allowing it to further differentiate its process te...
2025-07-09 21:03
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The Way Ubuntu Boots on Raspberry Pi is Changing in 25.10
Do you run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi? If you do, there are changes coming in Ubuntu 25.10 you may want to be aware of (don’t worry, they’re for the better). Canonical software engineer Dave Jones has laid out plans for ‘substantial’ rejig in the...
2025-07-09 20:56
The Way Ubuntu Boots on Raspberry Pi is Changing
Do you run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi? If you do, there are changes coming in Ubuntu 25.10 you may want to be aware of (don’t worry, they’re for the better). Canonical software engineer Dave Jones has laid out plans for ‘substantial’ rejig in the...
2025-07-09 20:56
Ubuntu is Changing the Way it Boots on Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu will use an A/B boot approach on Raspberry Pi devices to improve reliability and boot failures, albeit with a minor drawback for users. You're reading Ubuntu is Changing the Way it Boots on Raspberry Pi, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not repr...
2025-07-09 20:56
Why we can’t stop multitasking
We’ve all been there: a notification pops up, and suddenly we’re responding — even if it completely derails our focus. It feels automatic, but it’s rarely just about the task at hand. As a staff product researcher on the Firefox mixed methods t...
2025-07-09 20:53
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland components. While still in early form, the project has already taken off from being a personal GitHub project to now being hosted...
2025-07-09 20:29