Not all of our progress is headline worthy! But steady, detail-oriented work, described in our latest development update, is a firm foundation for the next leaps forward.
We're here to stop surveillance by corporations like Google and Apple. That's why we replaced Google's FCM with our own notification system and keep Apple Notification Data at a minimum. Learn here why this is important.
Join us for the Matrix Conference from October 15 to 18, 2025. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.
NordVPN added a (long-awaited) GUI to its Linux app back in May. Now, the code for that front-end has been made open source to "better serve the Linux community".
NordVPN has open sourced the GUI in its official Linux app, and the company behind the virtual private network has also updated its Snap package with a GUI.
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As free Windows 10 support ends today, consider upgrading to a Linux operating system! You will continue to be protected with security updates, but you will also gain total freedom for your device.
Doesn't have to be Fedora - look around for the Linux distro that works for you. :)
There’s an accessibility bug on Mastodon: you cannot add custom alt text to your profile or header image. This means people using screen readers can’t know what these images show, so important info is missing for visually impaired users. ♿
Please help by upvoting and commenting on the issue so it gets more attention from developers 👇
Pitch In the public profile edit section of the Mastodon web interface, it is not possible to set alternative text (alt text) for the profile picture and header image. Right now, both images have a...
OK #Blind #Linux people, is it really worthwhile to consider dual booting @elementary or at least testing it out in a VM? I’m probably not going to be able to give up windows completely, correct? What can I do natively under Lennox and what can’t I do? How is word processing, spreadsheets, making presentations? How about editing music notation? what works, what doesn’t, and what am I going to be giving up in terms of time and efficiency? Boosts appreciated and input very much welcome. #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind @blind #OpenSource #ElementaryOS #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11Y
I've been thinking about creators and distributors. picture a woodworker who crafts a perfectly balanced, minimalist chair. a furniture store loves it and starts selling it. but, to "match their brand", the store paints every chair bright green
customers see a green chair. they don't know the store painted it. they just assume the original artisan loves making bright green chairs. the creator's original intent and aesthetic are completely lost in translation, and their reputation is now tied to a choice made by someone else
this happens so often in FOSS. upstream developers create the "wooden chair", and downstream distros often paint it "green". there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it creates a gap where users blame the artisan for the paint job. it makes you think about where creative ownership truly lies
Berlin, 9 October 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.2, the second minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.
LibreOffice has been available for Linux since we started the project in 2010. The official builds from The Document Foundation (the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice) are designed to be self-contained and distribution agnostic – that is, they sho…
We’re hiring on the Red Hat Bootloader team! Work on GRUB2, shim, the Linux kernel, and core bootloader toolchains — the foundation of every Red Hat system.
This is your yearly reminder to #contribute to the apps you depend daily and still respect your #privacy are #free and #opensource. Demonstrate your love for them, help them do what they do best.
Qualcomm announced today that they are acquiring Arduino, the popular open-source hardware/electronics prototyping platform for single-board micro-controllers.
I wonder if we should have #GPL 4 that would cover machine learning. Something like "if this code is used to train an LLM, then the code produced by the LLM must be released under the same license". I know there are many challenges, such as effective enforcement, but if this issue remains unaddressed, I believe LLMs may become a way to evade license virality.
LibreOffice turned 15 years old in September! We also had our annual conference, an update to the software, guidebook translations, news about migrations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… At the start of the month, the LibreOffice Conference 2025 took place in Budapest, Hungary.
What's the topic of Office Hours conversation? Conversation view! From backend changes to in-person collaboration, find out how the Thunderbird team is making it possible:
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Looking reasonably likely that #SOURCE magazine issue 3 will be out tomorrow! 27 pages of supercool #opensource tutorials relating to opensource hardware! I'm off for a lie down now after laying all those pages out!
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