The Gnome Foundation indicates increased belt tightening in its new budget due to continuing financial woes.
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Two months after Holly Million tendered her resignation -- and a month-and-a-half after leaving -- the financially strapped Gnome Foundation announces that the search is on for a new executive director.
Does Wayland becoming the defacto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
Professional shaman Holly Million, who became Gnome's executive director in October, has evidently participated in a banishing ritual and will disappear from Gnome at the end of this month.
While the alpha release of the new scratch-built-in-Rust Cosmic desktop has been pushed back by a couple of months, that's not expected to delay the launch of the production ready version that will be the default DE in Pop!_OS 24.04 later this year.
We could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us we'll see a production ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this year's LinuxFest Northwest.
The first beta release of KDE Plasma 6, which exchanges X11 for Wayland, was released last week. The second beta will be released in two weeks.
There's a good chance that when Fedora 40 is released in April, that it will become the first major Linux distro to be released without X.
This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.
FOSS Week in Review: LibreOffice Fixes Bugs, KDE Release Plans, Automakers ‘F’ on Privacy, and more…
FOSS Week in Review: LibreOffice Fixes Bugs, KDE Release Plans, Automakers ‘F’ on Privacy, and more…
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.
None of the Gnome extensions that are in use now will work on Gnome 45 when it's released on September 20.