Thirty years after KDE’s debut, the venerable desktop is celebrating with cake, candles, and a call for community support.
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Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
After more than a quarter century at the helm of key digital rights battles, Cindy Cohn hands leadership to veteran ally Nicole Ozer while plotting a return to the courtroom.
Backed by major European vendors, Euro‑Office takes on Microsoft, Google Docs, and OnlyOffice — and we have screenshots to show how the new sovereign suite is shaping up.
AlmaLinux rolls out 9.8 and 10.2 side by side, pairing new compiler and language stacks with security fixes and an ALESCo‑approved kernel backport that arrives ahead of the RHEL upstream.
As Colorado and California move age verification to the OS layer, exemptions for open source determine whether Linux desktops stay free of mandatory age‑gating.
With Richard Stallman back on the road and FSF backing 46 community-focused LibreLocal meetups worldwide, the free software movement looks anything but finished.
Enterprise customers keep Gemini CLI, but open source users are nudged toward a proprietary “upgrade” called Antigravity CLI
Calling Bambu Lab a ‘strident long‑time AGPL violator,’ the nonprofit is organizing reverse‑engineering volunteers and an Orca Slicer fork in a right-to-repair move for 3D printer owners.
From Copy Fail to Dirty Frag to Fragnesia and ssh-keysign‑pwn: AI‑driven bug hunters are turning the Linux kernel into a shooting gallery.
Two kernel zero‑day fixes, two quick Tails releases, and one Tor‑backed project determined to keep its privacy‑minded users safe — this is open source security hygiene in action.