The GIMP turns 25 and promises to carry on being the FOSS not-Photoshop
Image Manipulation Program spawned GTK, which begat GNOME
23 Nov 2020 | 145
We see what you did there: First-stage booster from Rocket Lab's Return to Sender mission floats back to Earth
Electron celebrates a parachute party and is successfully recovered
20 Nov 2020 | 23
KDE maintainers speak on why it is worth looking beyond GNOME
Interview The Qt advantage? 'We're a weird by-product of coffee machines and cars'
16 Nov 2020 | 136
Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation
'Unusual for a vulnerability on a modern operating system to be this easy to exploit,' says bughunter
11 Nov 2020 | 20
Rocket Lab to equip 'Return to Sender' with parachutes amid plans to catch an Electron booster with a helicopter
Successful recovery would make it the first and only reusable orbital-class small launch system
5 Nov 2020 | 7
How's this for the ultimate gaming achievement? Half-Life 2's Gnome Chompski is going to space – in real life
Drag racing in orbit with Rocket Lab
3 Nov 2020 | 3
Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical's Snap Store
That's Chromium fixed. But the snap-only problem may reappear for other packages
2 Nov 2020 | 43
Ubuntu 20.10 goes full Raspberry Pi, from desktop to micro clouds: Full fat desktop on a Pi is usable
But company also has its eye on Kubernetes at the edge
23 Oct 2020 | 35
'This was bigger than GNOME and bigger than just this case.' GNOME Foundation exec director talks patent trolls and much, much more
Interview Snaps vs Flatpaks, losing in mobile, Microsoft and Linux, and avoiding another GNOME 2 to 3 disaster
23 Oct 2020 | 107
AWS makes its own Arm CPUs the default for ElastiCache in-memory data store service
Bills home-brewed silicon as the upgrade path to better Redis or memcached
12 Oct 2020 | 4
Red Hat tips its Fedora 33: Beta release introduces Btrfs as default file system, .NET on ARM64, plus an IoT variant
RHEL 7.9 also here – last major version in the 7.x family?
2 Oct 2020 | 50
GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again
What strange magic is this? 41st release and sequel to version 3.38 will be called version 40
22 Sep 2020 | 43
Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth
Linux distro founder apologises for 'having dropped the ball'
14 Sep 2020 | 23
Pretty wild that a malicious mailto: link might attach your secret keys and files from your PC to an outgoing message
Some OpenPGP, S/MIME-capable email clients vulnerable to attack
19 Aug 2020 | 17
Companies toiling away the most on LibreOffice code complain ecosystem is 'beyond utterly broken'
Interview Major open-source projects need paid-for developers, but what is the business model?
16 Jul 2020 | 117
Linux Mint 20 isn't exactly bursting with freshness but, hey, there's kernel 5.4 and it's a long-term support release
Oh Snap: Based on Ubuntu but without package manager. Warpinator anyone?
1 Jul 2020 | 89
Linux desktop org GNOME Foundation settles lawsuit with patent troll
Updated Shotwell case ends with Rothschild Patent Imaging backing off for good
21 May 2020 | 50
Could it be? Really? The Year of Linux on the Desktop is almost here, and it's... Windows-shaped?
Build Windows Subsystem for Linux to gain out-of-the-box support for GUI apps, GPU chippery
19 May 2020 | 120
Nervous, Adobe? It took 16 years, but open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape now works properly on macOS
Happy 1.0 to the fruits of volunteer labour
6 May 2020 | 38
Talk about physical to virtual translation: Red Hat officially emits OpenShift 4.4, Fedora 32 in online conference
Red Hat Summit Linux distro giant gets cosy with Microsoft among other announcements
28 Apr 2020 | 2
