Want AI-generated cover art for your ebook? Calibre now offers it, along with a substantial collection of less controversial improvements for Kobo users and readers.
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New bidirectional-text tools, better OOXML round-tripping, and no built-in AI show why LibreOffice is accountable to users rather than product-market calculations.
More than four decades after Richard Stallman began GNU Emacs, version 31.1 makes the classic editor friendlier for everyday Linux users.
The new Tabbed interface is an improvement, not a retreat from LibreOffice’s longstanding commitment to offering users multiple ways to work.
This update of the nano terminal editor brings crash fixes, key-binding restoration, and a small but useful option tweak.
The new release also adds reproducible tarballs and new tools, while dropping Gold from the main tarball.
The latest LibreOffice maintenance update pushes Skia back to experimental mode on Mac and Windows.
We get down and dirty with Collabora Office 26.04, the new desktop twin to Collabora Online, to see how it stacks up against LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Euro‑Office and, yes, Microsoft Office.
Version 2.5.21 introduces Kyber/ML‑KEM, tweaks internals for newer libraries, and signals that users should move off the now‑unsupported 2.4.
Think today’s Gimp is complicated? Try the 1996 Motif version, now resurrected as a Flatpak so you can suffer for nostalgia’s sake.