On December 13th, 2025 with 23 comments
This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Announced in 2021, it's designed for all GNU/Linux...
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On April 16th, 2023 with 130 comments
"The fact remains that Google Chrome is the arbiter of web standards," argues FSF campaigns manager Greg Farough (while adding that Firefox, "through ethical...
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On November 13th, 2021 with 55 comments
"It's Open Source. It's free," says a web page at Penpot.app.
Slashdot reader kxra writes:
Penpot is a free-software, web-based vector design platform using...
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On September 26th, 2020 with 172 comments
LWN.net re-visits the emacs-devel mailing list, where the Emacs 28 development cycle has revived discussions about how to make the text editor more "modern"...
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On August 1st, 2020 with 18 comments
An anonymous reader quotes The Los Angeles Times:
On Dec. 9, 1968, the then-small world of computer engineering was shaken to its core by a presentation of new...
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On April 12th, 2020 with 137 comments
Phoronix reports on a new concern about Qt, the free and open-source widget toolkit for creating GUIs and cross-platform applications:
Wednesday a KDE...
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On February 11th, 2020 with 15 comments
jrepin writes: The KDE community today announced the release of Plasma 5.18. This version of the popular desktop environment is the latest long-term supported...
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On August 11th, 2019 with 67 comments
"In the 3D content creation space, where are lot of professional 3D software costs anywhere from 2K to 8K Dollars a license, people have always hoped that the...
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On November 20th, 2016 with 191 comments
"With a click of a button, you can change the desktop layout to match that of Windows versions and Gnome 3. The Ultimate edition...also features Ubuntu, Gnome...
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On September 11th, 2016 with 72 comments
"Today, Elementary 0.4 (code-named 'Loki'), achieves stable status," BetaNews reported Friday, applauding the "clean and functional" app tiles in its software...
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On February 5th, 2016 with 156 comments
David Rothman writes: The Thin Helvetica Syndrome arises from the latest Kindle upgrade and has made e-books less readable for some. In the past, e-book-lovers...
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On August 25th, 2015 with 43 comments
jrepin writes: KDE have announced the release of Plasma 5.4 desktop. This release of Plasma brings many nice touches for our users such as new fullscreen...
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On August 6th, 2014 with 59 comments
An anonymous reader writes with news that, after a six year journey, Qt will once again be maintained by a standalone company. From the Digia weblog:
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On February 20th, 2014 with 255 comments
sfcrazy writes "Canonical is bringing back menu integration with application windows. In 14.04 there will be an option for users to enable menus in application...
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On November 20th, 2013 with 111 comments
jones_supa writes "As can be recalled, Mir didn't make it to the Ubuntu 13.10 release to replace X.org as the display server. Back then it suffered of problems...
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On November 11th, 2013 with 147 comments
First time accepted submitter VZ writes "The first new stable wxWidgets release in years and the first new major release since 1998 has just been announced....
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On October 18th, 2013 with 79 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Beginning with version 1.11.0, open source packet analyzer Wireshark is switching its user interface library from GTK+ to Qt. 'Both...
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On September 2nd, 2013 with 59 comments
sfcrazy writes "Kubuntu is one of those few GNULinux based distributions which brings the two leading technologies together — Ubuntu and KDE. There are...
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On July 5th, 2013 with 136 comments
An anonymous reader writes "As the PCMan at the LXDE blog lets us know, the work on a port of LXDE to the Qt platform is showing promise. As the developers...
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On June 5th, 2013 with 250 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla is planning a major design overhaul of its flagship browser with the release of Firefox 25, slated to arrive in October....
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On March 9th, 2013 with 81 comments
hypnosec wrote in with news that XBMC has experimental Wayland support now. Even better, it's implemented by porting XBMC to SDL 2.0, something that will...
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On February 25th, 2013 with 81 comments
The latest Firefox for Android nightly build now features a number of changes to the UI with the goals of "...keeping a clear distinction between different...
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On December 26th, 2012 with 202 comments
sfcrazy writes "Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, has shared his plans for 2013. It was clear from the Nexus 7 initiative that Ubuntu is eventually...
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On July 19th, 2012 with 128 comments
sfcrazy writes "The general tendency within the open source community is to a whole new wheel to push your own cart. A majority of open source projects are...
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On April 2nd, 2012 with 197 comments
In order to provide an alternative to IE on Windows 8, Firefox needs a Metro UI. Luckily, development of a Metro interface for Firefox is well underway. The...
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On March 28th, 2012 with 147 comments
supersloshy writes "The popular GNOME desktop environment has just announced the release of version 3.4. User-facing updates include, among others, a new look...
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On February 21st, 2012 with 142 comments
New submitter egparedes points out a post dissecting webOS and highlighting the things it did right, in the hopes that developers for other mobile operating...
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On February 7th, 2012 with 356 comments
LinuxScribe writes "An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the...
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On October 31st, 2011 with 798 comments
darthcamaro writes "There are a lot of us that really don't like Unity. Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth defended Unity today, arguing that even 'cool' power...
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On October 13th, 2011 with 455 comments
Cue the Ubuntu release parties — Ubuntu 11.10 has arrived. Ars Technica has a very positive summary of the changes in 11.10; Joe Brockmeier's piece of a...
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