📦 "cpak: an OCI-compliant packaging for IoT & Desktop"
with @mirkobrombin #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 15:10 CEST 📍 Brescia

🧱 Daemon-free, portal-free packaging—cpak is a modern way to ship apps for IoT, servers & the Linux desktop.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/ses…
#cpak #Linux #Packaging #OCI #FOSS

🧱 "The state of GTK"
with Matthias Clasen at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 14:15 CEST 📍 Brescia

🎯 What's new in GTK? Color mgmt, Android, text rendering & more—plus what’s next for devs & contributors.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GTK #GNOME #Linux #FOSS

Ever since I switched to #GNU #Linux in my private life, using #Windows at work gives me near-daily headaches. I have full admin rights, yet I constantly fight the system: forced updates, inconsistent behavior, sluggish UI, weird errors buried in the registry.

I used to think this was just how #computers worked. But after experiencing the #freedom and clarity of #FOSS, Windows feels more like an obstacle than a tool.

Going back feels wrong.

#os #opensource #free #arch

It's another End Of 10 Challenge 🖖

Supporters are invited to do a simple task to further the campaign goals.

This time's challenge … 🚀

Locate the bug tracker 🐞 of an app you use, and learn how to submit a bug report 🐝 for the developers.

BONUS ❤️ POINTS: Actually submit a bug report.

BONUS BONUS ❤️❤️ POINTS: Show a friend how to do it too!

Tell us about it in a post. Don't forget hashtag #EO10Challenges

#EndOf10 #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Linux #GNULinux #Windows

Any #wayland devs able to help me out with an example of how one might iterate a list of available display surfaces?

This is a niche request. Please BOOST for reach!

#linux #dev

Well y'all, I might have to go back to Windows. With Fedora 42, and Orca 48.6, I cannot use Google Docs well at all on Google Chrome, and on Firefox, the outline view which I use to navigate through many, many headings in a document I need for work, isn't usable at all. I can arrow up and down all I want, but nothing speaks.

#accessibility #fedora #linux #blind

Linux users can install Mozilla VPN client from Flathub. The open source app was previously only available to install on Ubuntu-based distributions via the Mozilla APT repo.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/mozill…

#Mozilla #flathub #linux

Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub

The Mozilla VPN Client can now be installed on Linux distributions from Flathub, a change that will allow more users to access the paid VPN service.

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

I'd like to think #fedora with #gnome is a real operating system, but then not configuring templates and thus #nautilus not offering to create a new file - is some decision.

Can't say it's smart to force people to either create those templates or find a terminal and run touch.

#linux

Red Hat just expanded free access to RHEL for business developers zdnet.com/article/red-hat-expa… by @sjvn

If you're a programmer, there are lots of ways to get free Red Hat Enterprise #Linux instances for your work, and now there's another one.

Red Hat just expanded free access to RHEL for business developers

Red Hat offers a new free option for up to 25 Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances for business developers.

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

Do you use a drawing tablet with Linux? You can share your device info in two easy steps - no coding skills required! 💙

Help KDE devs like @redstrate build driver support.

More info at:

github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hi…

#linux #tablet #wacom #huion #stylus #artwithopensource #kde #freesoftware

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Being a mod on /r/gnome reddit can be pretty entertaining. I have this person who was unhappy that a #gtk3 converted to a #libadwaita app. When I told him that software freedom is you have the ability to fork and maintain the gtk3 version yourself this is the response:

'''so software freedom is the freedom of developers to sneak into my house, paint the walls a different colour and move my furniture about however they like without warning?'''

Uh, yeah. K.

#gnome #linux #OpenSource

The French city of #Lyon will also be replacing Microsoft for #opensource solutions. Really curious what #Linux distro they will choose 👀

Also featured; #Jitsi for video conferencing, #Nextcloud paired with #OnlyOffice for document sharing and co-editing, #Zimbra for email, #Chamilo for online training, and #Matrix for instant messaging. 🔥

news.itsfoss.com/french-city-r…

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

This Saturday 5 July 🐧 Linux install parties in #Germany and #France (all times local)! 🚀

* Repair-Café Kahlgrund, Niedersteinbach (#Bayern), 10h30-16h

* ComputerCafe Stuttgart Kaltental, #Stuttgart, 13h-17h30

* Premier Samedi du Libre, #Paris, 14h-18h

For details and more events worldwide: endof10.org/events/

#EndOf10 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GNULinux #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11

Below, I added some hype music to mastodon.social/@alatiera/1147…

With that, I believe we could get a huge GNOME fundraiser drive going, by selling tickets to a philanthropic wrestling match between @alatiera and probonopd. Per tradition, the match could take place in an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, kitted up as for a rave. KDE devs welcome.

I bet Jordan would smack Xorg down so hard that xeyes pops out, and we would never hear from X11 again as Wayland reigns supreme.

#Linux #Wayland #GNOME

Jordan Petridis

2025-07-01 17:16:59

So close to the planch

Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

Improve accessibility with event widgets in the month view (!576) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Calendar application for GNOME

^GitLab

First step for non-x86_64 contributions

lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…

#archlinux #linux #arm #RISCV

Congrats on the release! Anytime a Linux GUI app gets more beautiful, that means a great deal to all the non-geeky users of the world, where aesthetics and convenience are king. I just hope it stops short of getting bloated and slow - witness the sluggish Node.js horror show that the #Signal desktop client is, in #Linux.

BTW: What version of OMEMO does Gajim support? Does the website or documentation say this anywhere?

am officially a Friend of GNOME as of a couple days ago, something I should have done sooner but never remembered to before

just want to say again how much I love using it. seeing GNOME 3 in action 9-10 years ago is what spurred me to try Linux to begin with, _because_ it looked so unique and very not Windowsy. and as of GNOME 40 and the subsequent Fedora release (4+ years ago), it has remained my daily driver

it's not for everybody, but it's by far my favorite desktop to use

#GNOME #Linux

From the Debian mailing list: Proposal: Debian-AI — A Free and Open-Source AI Operating System

So people think of AI before accessibility. I'm not surprised, but still, just another reminder. And I know it's just a proposal, nothing concrete, but we don't see proposals for accessibility, like, at all. So yeah foss, keep going with that End of Ten evangelism, keep showing disabled users how y'all are. I hope governments in Europe have to return to Windows due to accessibility issues in Linux, and that it hits the news hard. Maybe then you'll wake up.

#accessibility #foss #debian #linux

To #Blind and #LowVision Linux users:

Which #Linux or #BSD distributions are you able to install without assistance? Are there any that work better with screenreaders and other assistive technologies out of the box?

I'm trying to understand how much of the problem is specific to distributions, their installers or differences in windowing system such as Wayland breaking screenreaders vs X11.

#accessibility

Ever wondered about something?
Whether it’s how things work at Star Labs, questions about our products, or just some cool Linux tips, we’re all ears.

Drop your thoughts in the comments, we’d love to chat and maybe take a closer look at it in a video.

#linux #developers #opensource #starlabssystems

Seeing how reviving old PCs is a hugely important thing to use Linux for, it's really strange to me how difficult it is to find out which distros works best on old hardware!

People say many things, but it's hard to find real benchmarks. Tried Lubuntu and Zorin Core on one laptop I have here, and it was not OK. AntiX seems fast enough, but unfortunately too nerdy to give to a non-nerd.

#linux #AntiConsumption #reuse

Does the feature meet the standards for #accessibility? Is the documentation complete? No? THEN DON’T RELEASE THE FEATURE. Make these things release blockers, it’s literally that simple.

#linux #a11y

I am slowly oxidizing my unix CLI. A lot of people have made rust based versions of common unix utilities and some of them are REALLY good.

Like fd-find for doing essentially find . -name blah. And rg (ripgrep) which does grep -R but it's aware of git, files like pyc or .bak files, and it excludes them by default.

Now I have sd which is hopefully replacing the last thing I used perl for. I write perl -pi -e s/x/y/g a lot. Just doing a quick string replace inside a file. So sd can start doing that.

I'm also trying to get used to zellij instead of tmux and starship for modern prompt decorations like the kids do.

These kids, my friends, are welcome on my lawn.

#rust #cli #linux

Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS? Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.

No ads
No trackers
No #surveillance
No terms of service traps

PureOS supports Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.

More Info: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…

Is #Linux Mint still good?

I'm trying to decide which Linux to go for on my desktop. I've used Mint before but a very long time ago.

Please do not fill my replies with techy talk. I want something easy.

fireborn wrote an excellent series of posts about how badly accessibility is broken under #Linux. They include workarounds used, patches applied, patches submitted, and depressingly with things that worked a decade ago.

Naturally somebody volunteered to not read the series and reply with "first of all, it's GNU/Linux" as their opener.

*This* post is a line-by-line response to that comment.

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine, 20250625,
by @fireborn,
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

… via lobste.rs/s/nwvary/you_don_t_o…

> Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt […]

>> GNU/Linux is about you owning your machine.

> Then why do I have to reassert that ownership every time a package breaks accessibility?

#linux #accessibility #gatekeeping

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine

53 comments

^lobste.rs