Guide: FreeBSD, KDE Plasma, and Wayland
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! But what if your friends and relatives are more interested in FreeBSD than Linux? Well, here we have a detailed guide to setting up a FreeBSD desktop using KDE Plasma and Wa...
Various desktop Linux tips for newcomers
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! It’s weekend, you might be visiting friends or relatives, and perhaps some of them are curious about switching away from Windows or macOS to Linux. There’s countless gui...
8×19 text mode font origins
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! Ever wanted to know everything about a specific 8×19 font Intel used for the POST and BIOS screens on its motherboards? OS/2 Museum’s Michal Necasek has you covered. The ...
Debian turns 32!
On August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock announced the Debian Project to the world. Three decades (and a bit) later, Debian is still going strong, built by a worldwide community of developers, contributors, and users who believe in a free, universal operating ...
Deadline Extended Call for Host openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026
Deadline Extended: Call for Host – openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 The openSUSE.Asia Summit Organizing Committee has extended the deadline for the Call for Host to submit proposals for the 2026 Summit. Communities now have until August 20, 2025 to apply. T...
Kiro (Agentic AI) Limits Downloads, Introduces Paid Tiers
Usage tiers have been announced for Kiro, the ‘agentic’ AI IDE built on Code by a team at Amazon AWS — and bad news if you use it: they’re now in effect. I spotlighted the preview release of Kiro in mid-july, since the launch of an Amazon-backe...
Kiro (Agentic AI IDE) Tightens Free Access, Adds Paid Tiers
Kiro, an IDE with AI-powered agentic features, has announced pricing tiers with usage limits and restricted new downloads by implementing a waitlist. You're reading Kiro (Agentic AI IDE) Tightens Free Access, Adds Paid Tiers, a blog post from OMG! Ubun...
macOS made to run on iPhone
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! What if you could run the full macOS on your iPhone or iPad? Quite a few people have made the case to run macOS especially on the latter, and it seems this isn’t as much o...
Mini Floating Panel GNOME Extension Adds Much-Requested Features
A new version of the nifty Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell extension is available, and adds the sought-after ability to show/hide indicator and applet icons. To recap this add-on for those unfamiliar, Floating Mini Panel turns the GNOME Top Bar (the pa...
Mini Floating Panel Extension Adds Sought-After Features
A new version of the nifty Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell extension is available, and adds the sought-after ability to show/hide indicator and applet icons. You're reading Mini Floating Panel Extension Adds Sought-After Features, a blog post from OMG!...
Wine 10.13 Released With One Month Worth Of Improvements
One month has passed since the Wine 10.12 release. While typically new Wine development releases are on a bi-weekly release cycle, summer holidays typically interfere for one release per year with the Wine project. Thankfully Wine 10.13 is out today to...
