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Tech - It's FOSS - 4 hours ago

FOSS Weekly #26.26: Free Origin Access, Niri Tiling, Firefox Tricks, Myna in Ubuntu and More Linux Stuff

Brave browser released Origin, a striped down, non-crypto version of the Brave browser. It's basically Brave browser without the bloat but still with ad-block and anti-tracking. Here's the good thing which you will lke a s Linux user. This Brave Origin costs $6o for Windows and macOS users, but it is free for Linux users. Not everyday we Linux users get such privilege.Epic Games open-sourced Lore at State of Unreal 2026, a Git alternative built specifically for projects that mix code with huge b...

Tech - It's FOSS - 5 hours ago

Getting More Out of KDE Plasma System Monitor

One of the biggest strengths of KDE Plasma is its customization, and the System Monitor is no exception.I have shown this with KDE Konsole tweaks earlier and now I am here to do the same with KDE System Monitor.Like most other parts of the Plasma desktop, the System Monitor offers plenty of customization options that are easy to overlook.Let me show you how to transform the default KDE Plasma System Monitor into a clean and powerful system monitoring dashboard. Understanding the System Monitor L...

Tech - It's FOSS - 6 hours ago

Terramaster F4-425 Pro: An Hardware Upgrade for an Already Solid NAS

Terramaster F4-425 Plus was the first NAS I ever used in my hoemlab setup. It's a solid device for a NAS. Not too expensive, silent and has a decent operating system. The hybrid HDD+SSD model along with TRAID and built-in backup tools makes it a good NAS choice.Now Terramaster has refreshed their F4-425 series with a Pro model. The main thing that changes here is the CPU. There is also a revamped operating system in the form of TOS 7 but that should be available on previous F4-425 models, too.20...

Tech - It's FOSS - 14 hours ago

Linux Users Get This For Free! Brave Origin Costs $59.99 For Everyone Else

Origin is Brave's stripped-down browser, built for people who never touch most of what the company packages with Brave Browser. It drops the AI assistant, the rewards program, the crypto wallet, and the VPN, leaving the ad and tracker blocking in place.Don't let that fool you into thinking that this is some half-baked browser; you still get regular security upgrades, Chromium-specific patches, and general browser updates.Though, for most users, Brave Origin costs $59.99 for a one-time license pu...

Tech - It's FOSS - 2 days ago

PINE64's Smart Speaker is a Home Assistant Powered Alternative to Amazon Echo

PINE64 has been building budget-friendly ARM and RISC-V hardware since 2015, when the original PINE A64 single-board computer launched on Kickstarter. The community-driven outfit has since put out devices like the PinePhone, the ROCK series of SBCs, and the Ox64 RISC-V board.And now with the PineVoice, they are stepping into the smart speaker space, going the Home Assistant way instead of bundling Alexa or Google Assistant.🚧PINE64 points out that this device is still in the early stages of devel...

Tech - It's FOSS - 2 days ago

No More Reboots During Kernel Patching for ARM64 Systems on Ubuntu

Canonical's Livepatch can now patch the Linux kernel on ARM64 systems without forcing a reboot. This has been possible on AMD64 machines for years, but ARM64 users had no equivalent option until now.It is available for users on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 26, and if this sounds familiar, that's because Canonical has already talked about this before. The first time was when the Ubuntu 26.04 release was out, back in April, and the second instance was when Ubuntu Core 26 arrived.We are coverin...

Tech - It's FOSS - 2 days ago

I Finally Tried Niri, The New Way Of Tiling Linux Users Are Going Crazy About

When I first heard about Niri, a Rust-powered, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor with a supposedly different take on window management, I was both skeptical and intrigued. But after a few weeks of daily driving it and pairing it with the excellent Dank Linux desktop suite, I have a lot to say.What Exactly Is Niri?Niri is not your typical tiling window manager. It describes itself as a "scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor," and that one word, scrollable changes everything.Traditional tiling W...

Tech - It's FOSS - 3 days ago

Astra: For All Your High Fidelity Music Needs and Absolute Control

In the general trend of "back to the future past" that we've been experiencing these days, a lot of users want to roll back from the streaming-based consumption services now, days of physical media or digital files that are locally present on their systems (I still miss my iPod). So what do we need again? Physical and/or offline digital media players. At the same time, the technology encoding these files have enhanced exponentially, bringing the need for software that can adequately process all ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 3 days ago

6 Raspberry Pi Handhelds Worth Exploring (If You Have Money to Spend)

Ever since it first appeared as a credit card-sized computer, the Raspberry Pi has quietly reshaped how we think about cheap, hackable hardware. Its ability to run fully-fledged Linux distros and GPIO pins for wiring up sensors and motors all while being cheap is what drew people in.Of course, recent hikes across its lineup have made things harder for tinkerers, but that's the price they have to pay for access to a well-established ecosystem.That ecosystem covers a lot of ground too. Between the...

Tech - It's FOSS - 4 days ago

Firefox Can Do All This? 21 Features Most Users Never Touch

Firefox is my daily driver, my main browser. I have been using it for years and I also pay attention to the features it adds with new releases.I find it surprising that many people use it just for browsing websites but not utilizing many other features it offers. Trust me, you will be surprised by just how much power and convenience is packed into this browser beyond simple web surfing.From clever productivity hacks to handy built-in tools, it is packed with features that can help enhance your o...

Tech - It's FOSS - 5 days ago

ArmSoM Sige6 is The First Sige Board to Ditch Rockchip For Allwinner

ArmSoM is known for designing and manufacturing development boards and embedded solutions for a range of use cases that range from multimedia and IoT to AI and industrial applications.We have covered a few of their products here at It's FOSS, and they have generally been a good pick so far. Their flagship SBC lineup is the Sige series, which has so far shipped with Rockchip silicon.The Sige6 is the first to break from that, swapping the Rockchip for an Allwinner chip, targeting use cases like AI...

Tech - It's FOSS - 5 days ago

Guncrypt is Halfbrick Studio's First PC Game, That Also Works on Linux

Halfbrick Studios reached out to us recently, and they were hyped to show off their newest project, Guncrypt, a dungeon crawler built around loading bullets in the right order instead of chasing better gear.If that name sounds familiar to you, they are the ones behind a string of popular mobile games like Jetpack Joyride, Fruit Ninja, and Dan the Man.In-game, the weapons system has three guns with over 60 bullet types and 80 relic types that can be combined to change the gameplay according to yo...

Tech - It's FOSS - 6 days ago

Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type

In April, Jon Seager of Canonical laid out the company's plan for handling AI in Ubuntu. The framework split things into two groups, implicit AI that quietly improves what you already use and explicit AI that are features you'd actually summon on purpose.Back then, Jon gave speech-to-text and text-to-speech as one of the examples of what an implicit feature could look like. Weeks later, one piece of that puzzle has materialized in the form of Myna.While the tool is early in the development cycle...

Tech - It's FOSS - 7 days ago

Epic Games Built Its Own Git Alternative For Handling Large Files

Epic Games used its State of Unreal 2026 keynote to announce Lore, an open source version control system the company built in-house and is releasing for free.You see, game and film projects have a workflow where they have to mix source code with large binary files such as build inputs, big data files, and other generated content. The problem is that most existing version control tools were not built to handle that kind of combination well.Git handles large binary files through an add-on called G...

Tech - It's FOSS - 7 days ago

FOSS Weekly #26.25: AUR Supply Chain Attack, Commodore Phones, SonicDE, Y Server, Kernel 7.1 and More

Last week I shared something personal and something I was way too hesitatnt to share. It was the fact that the ad-driven model that kept It's FOSS running for 14 years is breaking down, and that YOUR support is the most direct way to keep this going.The response was overwhelming and I cannot thank you enough to all the well wishers and supports. From what I see, so far 112 readers opted for the lifetime Plus membership. Several readers, even existing paid members, bought coffees (a metaphor for ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 7 days ago

After the AUR Malware Flood, Yay v13 Lets You Script Your Own Safety Net

As you might already know, the AUR has been going through a rough patch, where more than 1,500 packages were compromised across three separate waves of malware attacks before Arch developers could get a handle on it.yay, the most popular AUR helper for Arch Linux, just put out a release aimed at tackling that mess on the user level, introducing two new features that make it easier to spot a risky package before you install it and to automate the review work yourself. Let's check it out! 🤓New too...

Tech - It's FOSS - 7 days ago

Commodore's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS

A year has passed since Commodore, the computer brand many of you know and love, came back from the dead under new ownership.The comeback is picking up pace too, with a lineup that already includes multiple Commodore 64 Ultimate editions, a C64X PC, and a licensing program that invites outside builders to use the name.Now, they have announced a return to the phone market, and not in the doomscrolling glass-slab avatar we are all used to, but in a retro, very equippable flip phone format.Making F...

Tech - It's FOSS - 7 days ago

KDE Plasma 6.7 Release Resurrects Two Themes From the KDE 4 Era

KDE's 30th anniversary is closing in on us, and the developers have spent these past few months getting things ready for the occasion, set to take place in October. Two of those things are Oxygen and Air, two classic Plasma themes from the KDE 4 era that we talked about a few months ago.The X11-free Plasma 6.8 is also due around the same time, barring any delays, of course.But, yeah, that's looking somewhat further into the future. For now, let's focus on the Plasma 6.7 release, which has arrive...

Tech - It's FOSS - 9 days ago

Raven Prism is a Linux Computer That Happens To Be A Pair of Glasses

Smart glasses have become a real consumer product over the past year, being at the center of some pretty funny brainrot and outdoorsy content.Meta's partnerships with Ray-Ban and Oakley have put AI-powered glasses on faces across global markets, pitching voice-activated AI assistants, integrated cameras, and phone notifications as the selling points.The privacy record of those products, however, is extremely disturbing. Meta's AI features push footage from the glasses to their servers for proces...

Tech - It's FOSS - 9 days ago

Arch Linux Pulls the Plug on New AUR Registrations After Malware Flood

Arch Linux has disabled new account registrations on the Arch User Repository (AUR) as they work to contain a malware campaign that swept through the community package repository last week.The AUR is where Arch users look in for software that has not made it into the official repositories yet. It is community-run and unsupported, meaning packages are user-submitted with no safety guarantee from the Arch team.Over 1,500 packages were hit in the first wave alone, and two more waves followed shortl...

Tech - It's FOSS - 9 days ago

To Make Things Easier, CachyOS Opted for a New GUI Package Manager

CachyOS is a relatively new distribution that has gained mass popularity due to its cutting-edge software and features that focus on performance optimization, finding a very specific niche easily. In its recent updates, CachyOS has changed the default package management system to the Shelly from Octopi, so obviously, I was bound to check it out.What does Shelly offer?To start with, Shelly is a one stop solution to manage packages not only from CachyOS's own repositories, but also AUR, AppImage a...

Tech - It's FOSS - 9 days ago

To Make Things Easier, CachyOS Created a New GUI Package Manager

CachyOS is a relatively new distribution that has gained mass popularity due to its cutting-edge software and features that focus on performance optimization, finding a very specific niche easily. In its recent updates, CachyOS has changed the default package management system to the Shelly from Octopi, so obviously, I was bound to check it out.What does Shelly offer?To start with, Shelly is a one stop solution to manage packages not only from CachyOS's own repositories, but also AUR, AppImage a...

Tech - It's FOSS - 9 days ago

To Make Things Easier, CachyOS Created a RUST-Based GUI Package Manager

CachyOS is a relatively new distribution that has gained mass popularity due to its cutting-edge software and features that focus on performance optimization, finding a very specific niche easily. In its recent updates, CachyOS has changed the default package management system to the Rust-based Shelly from Octopi, so obviously, I was bound to check it out.What does Shelly offer?To start with, Shelly is a one stop solution to manage packages not only from CachyOS's own repositories, but also AUR,...

Tech - It's FOSS - 10 days ago

Flipper One is a Pocket-sized Linux Cyberdeck

Pocket-sized computer tools are the definition of cool, recruiting many people over to the developer side of things, including your humble writer. A project like Flipper One, which is intended to be a device that features the full mainline Linux kernel in a small package with a full range of connectivity, not to be used as a full-fledged computer (not all the time, at least) but rather a cyberdeck that can be used for development, experimentation and last but not the least, pentesting, is such a...

Tech - It's FOSS - 10 days ago

KDE is Going Wayland Only So This New Project Gives You Plasma With X11

When KDE announced that Plasma 6.8 would be dropping the X11 session entirely, not everyone was happy about it. Wayland has been the default on most major distributions for a while now, but there's still a significant chunk of users with reasons to stay on X11.One such case is of a group of developers who took the code that KDE itself is walking away from and started building an X11-first desktop around it. That project is SonicDE.Their goal is to maintain and actively develop the parts of KDE P...

Tech - It's FOSS - 10 days ago

KDE is Going Wayland Only So This New Project Gives You KDE With X11

When KDE announced that Plasma 6.8 would be dropping the X11 session entirely, not everyone was happy about it. Wayland has been the default on most major distributions for a while now, but there's still a significant chunk of users with reasons to stay on X11.One such case is of a group of developers who took the code that KDE itself is walking away from and started building an X11-first desktop around it. That project is SonicDE.Their goal is to maintain and actively develop the parts of KDE P...

Tech - It's FOSS - 10 days ago

Linux Kernel 7.1 is a Feature Release That Could Be Useful For You

Following Linux 7.0 in April and the stable point releases since, Linux 7.1 is now available as a major feature release in the 7.x series.You get a bunch of upgrades with this, ranging from a new NTFS driver that landed after four years of development all the way to a bugfix for a long-standing audio issue on the Steam Deck OLED.And, if you remember our reporting from a few months ago, then this release also formally drops i486 CPU support from the kernel build system.What's new in this release?...

Tech - It's FOSS - 11 days ago

An AI Agent Infiltrated Fedora's Bug Tracker and Wreaked Havoc

On May 27, Adam Williamson of the Fedora QA team sent a message to contributor Nathan Giovannini, CC'ing the project's devel and test mailing lists so everyone could see what had been going on.Adam had been combing through Nathan's Bugzilla history and found what he described as the work of "some kind of agentic AI system," operating unsupervised across both Fedora's bug tracker and several upstream projects.Soon after, Nathan replied, saying his credentials had been compromised and that he had ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 12 days ago

There is a New X11 Server, Written in Rust, With the Help of AI

If you have been keeping an eye on the display server situation on Linux, you know where things are headed. Wayland is taking over as distros are dropping X11 sessions one by one.So naturally, someone went ahead and built a brand new X11 server from scratch. Developer Jos Dehaes recently went public with yserver, a new MIT-licensed X11 display server written entirely in Rust.Now, this will either impress you or make you shout "Clanker!" but this project was built with significant help from Claud...

Tech - It's FOSS - 14 days ago

FOSS Weekly #26.24: Dank Linux Review, BitWarden Alternative, Mint Tips (And an Important Message)

It's FOSS turns 14 tomorrow. Incidentally, my son turns 1 tomorrow as well. Two milestones the same day call for celebration, right?But there is something important that I wanted to share with you and it relates to the future of It's FOSS.The thing is that Google Search is gone. Not broken but gone. What replaces it is an AI that reads the web, summarizes it, and hands you the answer directly. No links. No clicks. No visits to the sites that actually wrote the content.This is not a minor update....

Tech - It's FOSS - 14 days ago

DOCX, PDFs Were Not Built for AI. This New Open Standard Wants to Change That

The LF AI and Data Foundation has announced the formation of the DocLang Specification Working Group, kicking off a collaborative effort to build an open, AI-native document format standard.The working group operates under the Joint Development Foundation's vendor-neutral governance model, ensuring that no single company controls the roadmap.The founding members are IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, ABBYY, and HumanSignal. Though, the spec documentation also credits Forgis as a founding member, but the anno...

Tech - It's FOSS - 14 days ago

DCOX, PDFs Were Not Built for AI. This New Open Standard Wants to Change That

The LF AI and Data Foundation has announced the formation of the DocLang Specification Working Group, kicking off a collaborative effort to build an open, AI-native document format standard.The working group operates under the Joint Development Foundation's vendor-neutral governance model, ensuring that no single company controls the roadmap.The founding members are IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, ABBYY, and HumanSignal. Though, the spec documentation also credits Forgis as a founding member, but the anno...

Tech - It's FOSS - 15 days ago

KaOS Releases First Dinit-Based ISO, but It's Not Ditching Systemd Entirely

We are used to seeing systemd as the default init on most Linux distributions, but not everyone is a fan.Some users and developers take issue with its broad scope, preferring init systems that do one thing and do it well rather than one that reaches into session management, logging, device handling, and more.To escape it, people often find refuge in systemd-free distributions that feature a diverse selection of init systems.While we are yet to see a widespread trend where mainstream distros ditc...

Tech - It's FOSS - 15 days ago

Good News For Linux Terminal Junkies! Proton Drive Now Has a CLI

Proton Drive (partner link) is getting a lot of love these days. We recently covered the encryption upgrades and the Linux desktop client that's in the works. Now Proton has added something the terminal dwellers will find useful; an official Command-Line Interface (CLI) for Drive, available on Linux, macOS, and Windows.The CLI is built on the Proton Drive SDK, the same foundation that powers the official desktop and mobile apps. It runs as a single binary on the various platforms and carries the...

Tech - It's FOSS - 16 days ago

ONLYOFFICE DocSpace 3.7 Lets You Generate Files Using AI

Other than its well-known lineup of office suites, ONLYOFFICE has been consistently building up its collaborative platform, DocSpace, since 2023. It sits in the same space as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, targeting teams that want a self-hostable, format-compatible alternative.Things got a bit complicated recently when Nextcloud and IONOS forked ONLYOFFICE into Euro-Office, a "Made in Europe" alternative aimed at organizations with data sovereignty requirements. ONLYOFFICE pushed back, acc...

Tech - It's FOSS - 16 days ago

Collabora's CODE 26.04 Release Might Be Its Biggest One Yet

Collabora is a UK-based company that builds open source office suite solutions based on LibreOffice. These are designed to run both on a browser and locally, integrating directly into an organization's infrastructure.Their flagship offering is Collabora Online (COOL), the paid, enterprise-grade version that ships with support agreements, long-term maintenance, and thoroughly tested updates.Complementing that is Collabora Office, a desktop app for Linux, Windows, and macOS that mirrors the same i...

Tech - It's FOSS - 16 days ago

Tired of File Size Limits? This Open Source Tool Sends Large Files Directly Browser to Browser

There are ways to transfer files over the internet. Twenty years ago, it was FTP for technically advanced people and emails for lazy people. (And Torrents for legally challenged people),Then came Dropbox and other cloud services and things have moved in that direction.But sharing large files through cloud services has its own quirks. Most services either have strict size limits, require account creation, or quietly store your data on their servers even when encryption is involved.This is where C...

Tech - It's FOSS - 16 days ago

Bambu Lab Keeps Locking Down, The Community Keeps Building Up

People who dabble in 3D printing know that Bambu Lab makes some of the most capable consumer 3D printers on the market right now. And no, this is not sugarcoating it; the hardware is genuinely good, catering to tinkerers at varying price points.The software, though, is like a slow-burning wound for anyone who values owning what they buy. Things have been downhill for some time now, and it started back in January 2025, when the company announced a new authorization and authentication system for i...

Tech - It's FOSS - 17 days ago

AliasVault is The BitWarden Alternative You Didn't Know You Needed

Passwords are one of those things everyone knows they should handle better but rarely do. The bare minimum is not reusing them across sites, and beyond that, you really want a password manager doing the heavy lifting for you.If you have been looking for options, you have probably come across Proton Pass (partner link) and Bitwarden as two of the more popular cloud-powered choices. For local hosting, something like KeePassXC lets you keep everything on your own machine without any cloud dependenc...

Tech - It's FOSS - 17 days ago

AliasVault Is The BitWarden Alternative You Didn't Know You Needed

Passwords are one of those things everyone knows they should handle better but rarely do. The bare minimum is not reusing them across sites, and beyond that, you really want a password manager doing the heavy lifting for you.If you have been looking for options, you have probably come across Proton Pass (partner link) and Bitwarden as two of the more popular cloud-powered choices. For local hosting, something like KeePassXC lets you keep everything on your own machine without any cloud dependenc...

Tech - It's FOSS - 17 days ago

Meet Melia: A Privacy-First, Modern Desktop Email Client Made Just for Linux

Every once in a while, a project comes that is very adamantly heavy on its principles and it is always a breath of fresh air in a world where corporate greed forms the basis of all the services we use. This time it is for a service that is extremely basic and essential, e-mail. There are a few email clients for desktop Linux already. Thunderbird, Evolution, Geary, to name a few.I am not saying that they are not good but there is always scope for improvement and new features. And Melia does just ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 18 days ago

The Single Biggest Reason Why ProtonMail is Killing My Productivity

I use ProtonMail for all official communication related to It's FOSS. Around 2020, I took their Visionary plan and switched from Google Workspace for the @itsfoss.com emails.The bundled offer of email, VPN, calendar, drive and password manager is a good ecosystem in its own. I am happy with their offering and continuous feature additions and improvements. Well, for the most part,One thing that I am still missing after all these years is the canned response feature.The lack of saved repliesIf you...

Tech - It's FOSS - 19 days ago

Craving Hyprland But Don't Want to Configure It? Try Dank Linux

During your journey around the world of Linux, you might've come across riced-up builds that look and feel like something out of a sci-fi novel. And if you wondered, why can't I have this on my system?, then you wouldn't be alone.Many of those builds have something like Niri or Hyprland sitting on top of a Linux distribution that plays nice with such heavy customization. But setting those up is a bit of work, and not everyone might be up for it.That is where pre-configured distros and scripts li...

Tech - It's FOSS - 20 days ago

Proton Drive is Now Faster (And Getting a Linux Client Soon)

If you have been following Proton Drive this year, you know the pace of development has picked up. The developers have been busy rolling out a shared SDK across all their clients, and each update has introduced major improvements.This week's update is the biggest one yet.Two things have landed at once. Proton pushed a cryptography overhaul that makes file encryption a lot faster and quietly confirmed that a native Linux client is now in development.A faster Drive experienceIllustration by the Pr...

Tech - It's FOSS - 21 days ago

FOSS Weekly #26.23: Vim Forked, Coreutils on Windows, Reverse WSL, KDE Linux and a Giveaway

Microsoft has released its own version of Coreutils to bring Linux commands to Windows command prompt. If you can't beat them, join them? This is a big move from the company that once called Linux a "cancer".Someone forked Vim to keep it free from any AI assisted code contribution. A bit too extreme? You tell me.KDE Linux is shaping up well, as May's progress update shows the project dropping its AUR dependency, switching to kde-builder for a faster and more distro-agnostic build system, and rep...

Tech - It's FOSS - 21 days ago

ZimaCube 2 Review: Combining Self-hosting, NAS and Local AI in a Single Package

I already reviewed the original ZimaCube Pro and gave it a positive verdict, for the most part.So when IceWhale offered me the newer version for review, I was curious to see how much had actually changed.Not much specification-wise. Here's why. If you compare the spec sheets of the ZimaCube Pro (original) and the ZimaCube 2 Pro side by side, you will find the same Intel Core i5-1235U processor, the same 16 GB DDR5 RAM, the same 256 GB system SSD, and the same six SATA bays. The core hardware of ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 21 days ago

Canonical Promotes Steam Snap to Stable on ARM64, With Plans to Rebuild It from Scratch Later

Canonical's Steam snap for ARM64 has been promoted to stable, nearly five months after a call for testing drew feedback from users across a wide range of ARM hardware.The reason a snap like this exists at all is that Valve's Steam client for Linux is x86-only. To make it run on ARM64, Canonical bundled the x86 Steam binary together with FEX-Emu, a Linux usermode emulator that translates x86 and x86-64 instructions for ARM64 systems at runtime.Snapcraft lists the stable release of the Steam snap ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 21 days ago

Linux Foundation Wants Open Standards for What AI is Actually Costing You

The Linux Foundation has been steadily growing its roster of projects and initiatives, with AI governance becoming an increasingly prominent part of that push.Their latest push in this direction is a plan to launch the Tokenomics Foundation, a new program focused on open standards, benchmarks, and best practices for the economics of AI token consumption.It will work in close partnership with the FinOps Foundation, which has been busy with efforts surrounding cloud cost management since 2020.Why ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 22 days ago

Tuta Joins Other European Companies Under the Euro-Office Umbrella

Tuta, the German encrypted email and calendar provider, has officially joined Euro-Office.Unless you have been living under a rock or were trapped in some freaky dungeon, this collaborative effort has brought together many notable European companies. The participating names include Nextcloud, IONOS, Proton, XWiki, Soverin, EuroStack, BTactic, Open-Xchange, and a few others who are jointly developing an open source document handling solution.It is in the works as a web-based, AGPL-licensed fork o...

Tech - It's FOSS - 22 days ago

Not Kidding! Microsoft Just Brought Linux Commands to Windows Officially

Microsoft just shipped coreutils for Windows. Yes, you read that right.ls. grep. cat. cp. find. The same commands that have powered Unix and Linux systems for over 50 years are now available natively on Windows, maintained by Microsoft itself.In case you are not already familiar, GNU coreutils are the foundational utilities that every Linux and macOS system relies on for basic file operations, text processing, and shell scripting. They are the foundation of Unix computing. Tens of millions of sc...

Tech - It's FOSS - 22 days ago

Vim Classic is a Vim Fork for People Who Want Their Editor AI-Free

A Vim fork has arrived, and it exists because of AI. Drew DeVault, the developer behind SourceHut, announced Vim Classic back in March 2026 after becoming unhappy with the direction both Vim and NeoVim were heading.His gripe was that generative AI had started creeping into their development, and he wanted no part of it.The NeoVim side of that concern is the project's labeling of AI-assisted pull requests as "AI assisted 🤖," which has now stacked up a fair number of requests, many of which have a...

Tech - It's FOSS - 23 days ago

I Tried This Open Source ChatGPT Alternative on Linux, But Went Back to Ollama

I may hate AI slop but I am not a AI hater. I have found decent use of the AI tools and I try to include these tools in my workflow wherever it makes sense.While mainstream LLMs like ChatGPT and Perplexity have decent free offering, they leach on the user data. "If you are not paying for the product, you are the product".That's why I am loving the idea of exploring local AI and I have spend my fair share of time experimenting with LLMs that can be run on normal systems. Recently, I discovered Ja...

Tech - It's FOSS - 23 days ago

AlmaLinux Day is Coming to Hollywood's Backyard This July

If you have been following AlmaLinux OS, you know it is one of the more popular free enterprise Linux distributions out there.Born out of the CentOS chaos, it has steadily grown into a community-governed project with a clear focus on stability and compatibility for production use.Now, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation is taking things to Los Angeles, with an event squarely aimed at the studios and engineers who keep the entertainment industry running on Linux.AlmaLinux Day: Los AngelesIllustration by ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 23 days ago

KDE Linux is Coming Along Nicely, Ditching the AUR and Tightening Up Security

You might remember that the KDE folks have been busy working on KDE Linux, their own Linux distribution that is still very much in active development. I tried its Alpha build last year and found the experience surprisingly smooth for something so early.Fast forward to today, and Nate Graham, a well-known KDE name, has put out a progress report covering a pretty busy May for the project, with security fixes, build system changes, and a notable app swap all making the cut.A lot of workThe most sig...

Tech - It's FOSS - 24 days ago

This Credit Card-Sized Linux Box Has a Keyboard, Camera, and AI Capability

The Espressif-backed M5Stack has been keeping its Cardputer product line alive since 2023 by continuously updating it.The original ran on an ESP32-S3, and the follow-up, the Cardputer-Adv, stuck with the same ESP32-S3 but brought in better audio, a larger battery, a 6-axis IMU, and more expansion options.Both were decent microcontroller-powered devices, but neither ran a real Linux environment.The CardputerZero is where that changes. It trades the ESP32 for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero (CM...

Tech - It's FOSS - 24 days ago

Reverse WSL? I Tried This New Tool to Integrate Windows Apps in Linux

Microsoft's WSL allows people to use Linux inside Windows. It integrates well in the system allowing people to use Linux command line Windows. Linux GUI apps can also be used, which helps for editing config file in GUI-based editors.Now reverse the situation. How about using Windows applications on Linux? Sure, WINE and Bottles are there but I came across a new tool that combines container technology with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to give you native-app feel for Windows software on Linux.I a...

Tech - It's FOSS - 27 days ago

Steam Deck OLED is Absurdly Overpriced Now, Yet It Sold Out in North America Overnight

The Steam Deck OLED has been largely off the shelves since mid-February, being among the casualties of the RAM and storage shortage that has been driving up prices across consumer tech since late 2025.It recently came back on May 27, just not at the prices everyone was hoping for.Valve bumped the pricing for the 512GB OLED from $549 to $789 and the 1TB model from $649 to $949; that is a near-50% jump on the top model, btw. The cheaper LCD variant is gone entirely, having been discontinued before...

Tech - It's FOSS - 28 days ago

FOSS Weekly #26.22: Win for Linux, Firefox New AI Feature, AMD Betrayal, Rust Linux Commands and More

Good news on the age verification front, though. California and Colorado have both moved to exempt open source software from their age verification laws after neither bill originally made any concessions for community-run projects.Warp's Oz platform has been updated with multi-harness support, meaning teams can now run Claude Code, Codex, and Warp's own agent side by side under unified access controls and audit logs.The SFC has formally accused Bambu Lab of two AGPLv3 violations, shipping a prop...

Tech - It's FOSS - 29 days ago

Don't Expect a Raspberry Pi 6 Until At Least 2028

If you've been holding out for a next-gen Raspberry Pi, the wait just got a lot longer.Eben Upton joined fellow Raspberry Pi honchos, James Adams, the CTO of Hardware Engineering, and Gordon Hollingworth, the CTO of Software Engineering, for a Reddit AMA on r/engineering last week, and the Pi 6 release timeline was among the top things to come up.Eben's response put the Pi 6 on a 4 to 4.5-year cycle from the Pi 5 launch, meaning early 2028 at the absolute earliest. He didn't seem in any particul...

Tech - It's FOSS - 29 days ago

I Tried Firefox Smart Window, and It Won Me Over a Little

Mozilla has received plenty of flak for adding AI features to Firefox, like a chatbot in the sidebar, automatic alt text in PDFs, AI-powered tab group suggestions, and whatnot.It's been one thing after another, and while people might appreciate that these can be disabled, the sheer pace of the additions does make one wonder where it all ends.Their latest experiment in this space is the Smart Window, currently in beta and rolling out to users in the United States and Canada on Firefox 150 and new...

Tech - It's FOSS - 30 days ago

A New Linux Driver Could Make USB4 Cables a Blazing Fast Way to Move Data

Large data transfers are one of those things that always seem to find a way to be annoying. Tools like LocalSend make it easier over a local network, but wireless is not always an option, and some transfers are simply too important to leave to a Wi-Fi connection.In such a scenario, a wired solution that does not require setting up networking at all would be ideal.Intel's Thunderbolt maintainer Mika Westerberg and fellow Intel engineer Alan Borzeszkowski have been working on exactly that.USB4STRE...

Tech - It's FOSS - 30 days ago

Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado

Age verification laws have been spreading fast, and we have been keeping tabs on them for a while now. California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was the first to land, signed in October 2025, with Colorado following with its own version (SB26-051).Neither made any concessions for open source software in the original language, which left Linux distributions and other community-run projects in a very uncomfortable dilemma.Both have since moved to fix that, with Colorado having wrapped it up...

Tech - It's FOSS - 31 days ago

AMD Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Linux Users with Vivado Licensing Changes

Big tech companies have a habit of offering something for free, watching the user base grow, and then quietly walking it back once people are too invested to leave easily. A bait-and-switch, so to speak.Redis did exactly this back in March 2024, dropping its long-standing BSD license for the more restrictive dual licensing model, and the blowback was severe enough that the community forked it into Valkey almost immediately.Linux tends to get hit hardest by these moves. Its comparatively smaller ...

Tech - It's FOSS - 31 days ago

Bambu Lab Has Been Violating AGPLv3 for Years, SFC Says

The GNU Affero General Public License version 3, or AGPLv3, is one of the strongest copyleft licenses in the open source world.Published by the Free Software Foundation in 2007, it requires that any software built on an AGPLv3-licensed project must make its complete source code available under the same terms.That applies even when the software runs as a network service rather than being distributed as a standalone binary. I say that because what follows are two violations that the Software Freed...