Considering how GNOME Color Manager's support for calibrating scanners (and printers?) has been broken for many years, and how it seems like the remaining code might get ripped out entirely from GNOME Control Center as a result, I have filed a new #GNOME app idea, in the wild hope that someone might find this interesting enough to create a standalone utility app for creating ICC color profiles for your photo scanners and printers: gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-id…

#ColorManagement #Linux #photography

Color management: a printers and flatbed scanner calibration tool to generate ICC colour profiles (for accurate scanning & printing) (#293) · Issues · Tobias Bernard / App Ideas · GitLab

I searched far and wide for standalone calibration tools and they are either nonexistent or extremely hard to use (and typically commandline stuff requiring obscure arcane knowledge). Even...

^GitLab

Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.5

After almost a year I made another release of the Linux Desktop Migration Tool. In this release I focused on the network settings migration, specifically NetworkManager because it’s what virtually all desktop distributions use.

#linux #migration #NetworkManager

enblog.eischmann.cz/2025/06/23…
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If you are attending the Open Source Summit in Denver, this week, make sure to attend the presentation from my Igalia colleague Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo on kernel bug fixing: ossna2025.sched.com/speaker/ca…

We also have a booth in the B12 section if you want to drop by and talk about the work we do.

#igalia #ossummit #linux

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo's schedule for Open Source Summit North America 2025

Check out what Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo will be attending at Open Source Summit North America 2025

^{Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (ossna2025.sched.com)}

It's a few posts behind but today we have @fireborn the author of the new accessibility blog series "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back" to talk about his experience with Linux accessibility #Linux

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=3Yj6D5ez2O…

Audio: creators.spotify.com/pod/profi…

#277 Linux Accessibility Needs Some Work | Fireborn

You may have seen this series of accessibility posts floating around the FOSS world and today have the author it on the show. A very long time Linux user who...

^YouTube

[arch-announce] Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11

lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…

#archlinux #linux #kde #x11

Automated digital signing of OS artifacts

lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…

#ArchLinux #Linux #RFC #OpenPGP #DigitalSignature #Automation #Signstar #NetHSM

I don't know why @libreoffice didn't toot this yet, but here it goes:

The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and LibreOffice
blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @Endof10 endof10.org/

#Linux #LibreOffice #TDF #TheDocumentFoundation #Endof10 #Windows10

The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10.

^{Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)}

[arch-announce] Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging

archlinux.org/news/transition-…

#ArchLinux #linux #GamingOnLinux

I got interesting news from the fedora accessibility room today! this concerns blind and visually impaired #linux users exclusively, however:

For a bit of time, specifically pipewire >=1.4, one can start pipewire as root. That includes the regular daemon and the alsa layer, because jack emulation is a library loaded inside programs. Anyway, more recently than that, pipewire-pulse got the ability to be launched via root, as a system service:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

I'm not sure if ubuntu can use any of this yet, I suppose not, but most other distros which aren't debian based should be able to do so, for example arch, gentoo, probably nix and fedora starting with 42. This means that your system can start talking much, much sooner without the use of scripts, as long as you enable the system services instead of the user ones, or well, apparently the user units don't conflict, weird as that might sound. Either way, the same security is achieved, because who cares if root apps can listen to your microphone, the battle is lost if those apps are already root anyway!

In particular, this means that one can start espeakup with the system and it'll speak as soon as possible. Not in the initramfs, not at the enter decryption key prompt, but that's still huge progress in case your system crashes and so on.

What do y'all think, does this change anything, or it's still the same for you because you use scripts anyway, or because your systems rarely crash in such a way where that'd be required?

systemd: add systemwide pipewire-pulse files (dea6fa7f) · Commits · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab

We can and it works, so why not.

^GitLab

🗓️ Planify mi bylo doporučeno v komunitní místnosti o #triliumnext – a musím říct, fakt super!
Konečně krásná co padne do #Gnome, jednoduchá a funkční aplikace pro správu úkolů, která se napojí na #Nextcloud #oscloud přes CalDAV.

Nextcloud (backend) + DAVx⁵ + Tasks.org (Android) + Planify (desktop)
Funguje to skvěle dohromady.

#FOSS #Planify #Nextcloud #CalDAV #Linux #OpenSource #oscloud
github.com/alainm23/planify

It's really harder and harder to understand why is #GNOME alienating itself more and more form the rest of the community. Looks like we'll end up with GTK only for GNOME and GNOME only for #Linux and #systemd. I have no problems with systemd in particular, but making it a hard requirement is a limiting factor.

blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/202…

After some deliberation I decided to move my development stack from Windows to Linux.

I've been using windows for over 20 years and always loved it's backwards compatibility and stuff, but recently it has become borderline unusable and gets in the way of my work.

It took me like a single day to configure everything and it just works, and also works better than Windows too! I posted a thread of my reasoning and experience on BS (sorry):

bsky.app/profile/sosowski.bsky…

#gamedev #indiedev #linux

I don't want to support this move to amazon. @fedora What does this mean? Do I have to replace fedora?

EDIT: it's possible to switch desktop environments: docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/q…

#linux #fedora #gnome #f42 #gnome48

Switching desktop environments

Different Fedora Linux variants (Spins/Labs) have different default environments. For example, the Fedora workstation uses GNOME as its default desktop environment, while the KDE spin will use KDE. Irrespective of…

^{Fedora Docs}

💻 "Hacking the Shell"
with Florian Müllner at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:05 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧪 Bleeding-edge deps? No fear—containers & tooling make GNOME Shell dev easier than you think.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #gnomeshell #Linux #DevTools

🛡️ "The evolution of Linux targeted cyber threats"
with Pau Hoz at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 11:05 CEST 📍 Brescia

🔍 From supply chain attacks to evasive malware, Pau digs into how Linux threats are evolving—and what it means for FOSS security.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#Linux #Security #FOSS #CyberThreats

New computer with Windows pre-installed? Want to install #Linux 🐧 instead?

You pay for #Windows, even if you don’t use it. That’s unfair and non-transparent.

#Refund4Freedom from @fsfe & @ItaLinuxSociety defends your right to get refunds for unused pre-installed software! 😎

refund4freedom.org/

The campaign starts in #Italy 🇮🇹 but will later be extended.

FSFE & ILS support your right to choose your operating system. They also support #EndOf10 to prevent e-waste!

#GetYourWindowsRefund

All open source projects can use more contributions, so here are some places where you can start for @rockylinux !

This page has a list of active Special Interest Groups, like the Cloud or Security SIGs. There's also a list of areas where you can lead the change in making a SIG for it, like for embedded systems or storage applications!
wiki.rockylinux.org/special_in…

#RockyLinux #FlockToFedora #FedoraFlockSponsor #Linux #OpenSource

Want to start a Repair Café in your area?

You can!

Repair Café International enables local groups around the world to start their own:

repaircafe.org/en/join/start-y…

@RepairCafeInternational supports #EndOf10 to prevent #eWaste!

#RCInternational #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows #Win10

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…

What Is PureOS? A Beginner’s Guide for iOS, Android, and Windows Users – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

^{Purism SPC}

Thank you
@openSUSE
for being a Gold #sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 🌟

The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world’s best Linux distributions.

Visit their website to know more: opensuse.org

#linux

The makers' choice for sysadmins, developers and desktop users.

Discover Tumbleweed and get the newest Linux packages with our rolling release. Fast! Integrated! Stabilized! Tested!. Discover Leap and get the most complete Linux distribution with openSUSE’s latest regular-release version!

^openSUSE

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…

Thank you
@ubuntu for being a Gold sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 🌟

Ubuntu comes with everything you need to run your organization, school, home or enterprise.

Visit their website to know more: ubuntu.com

#sponsor #foss #linux

Enterprise Open Source and Linux | Ubuntu

Ubuntu is the modern, open source operating system on Linux for the enterprise server, desktop, cloud, and IoT.

^Ubuntu

🖼️ "A study in reactive UI toolkits"
with Jan Fooken at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 09:40 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧪 Can GTK feel like React or SwiftUI? Let’s explore modern takes on building Linux UIs.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GTK #Linux #Frontend #ReactiveUI

The End (of Windows 10) is nigh!

On 14 October, #Microsoft will end support for #Win10.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

Yours may be one of them!

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Learn more: endof10.org/press

Saved a device from the bin? Tell the world with the hashtag: #EndOf10

#Linux #GNU #GNUlinux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows

Thank you Google for being a Gold #sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 🌟

Google belives that open source is good for everyone. It enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology.

Visit their website to know more: opensource.google

#foss #linux

📣 "Bridging Accessibility Barriers"
with Lukáš Tyrychtr ( @tyrylu ) at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 09:00 CEST 📍 Brescia

🧑‍🦯Making screen readers work on modern GNOME (Wayland + GTK 4) and pushing toward real accessibility.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#Linux #GTK4 #Accessibility

As we are making good progress on #accessibility for GNOME Calendar lately (big thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton there) I have now rewritten and updated the description of this meta ticket to reflect the current status: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

15 of 28 checklist items completed as of May 22nd, 2025, based on what issues I've been able to find so far.

#a11y #GNOMECalendar #GNOME #keyboardnavigation #screenreaders #Linux

Improve keyboard navigation and annotations throughout the app for better accessibility (a11y) (#1036) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

GNOME Calendar is not known to be very accessible nor keyboard-friendly. This is a list of currently known

^GitLab

If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual applications, libraries and subsystems as well as broader topics like e.g. "messaging".

#linuxmobile #linuxdesktop #opensource #mobilelinux #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…

If you contribute in some way to GNOME, are you already a GNOME Foundation member? If not, you should apply ASAP: foundation.gnome.org/membershi…

Once you do (or if you’re already a member), don’t forget to VOTE in the upcoming Foundation elections!

The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is elected by Foundation members. If you want to influence how the Foundation is run, one of the most effective things you can do is to become a member and vote.

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS