November 21, 2025
Keeping tech free
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
In this week's roundup, we look at the winding down of LibreOffice's 7.5 series, how KDE's getting it together for Plasma's upcoming 6.0 release, Mozilla's look at privacy issues and modern automobiles, and more.
Community, News and Organizations
Lordy! Lordy! Lordy! Gnu’s turning 40! The Free Software Foundation is pulling out all of the stops for a birthday celebration hack day on October…
None of the Gnome extensions that are in use now will work on Gnome 45 when it's released on September 20.
In many ways, KDE Gear's apps supply the backbone on the Linux desktop experience. Newly released KDE Gear 23.08 brings many changes to these apps, and we look at them here.
Armbian and Linux From Scratch both had new releases this week, and ReiserFS was back in the news. Also: news headlines that gave us a chuckle.
Browsers, Distros, News Analysis and Software
The cryptocurrency funded Brave Browser has a new proprietary AI assistant; new versions of Kali, KDE Gear, and LibreOffice; with changes on the way in The Document Foundation's versioning scheme.
New users of Bodhi Linux might be confused about which of the four available ISO images to use. We've got your back.
The desktop environment that started as a side project for the Solus Linux distribution but has gone on to become included in many other distros, including Ubuntu Budgie, is out with a new release with new features and improvements.
Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can't swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country's recently passed news link law.
In the age of computers, 30 is a ripe old age. Happy birthday, Debian.
