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Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects
So far he hasn't been successful, but it might simply be a matter of time.

How KDE and GNOME do design
Turns out -- GNOME is just a tiny bit better than KDE on most things, in my opinion.




Thunderbird is launching its own mail provider
Mozilla is launching Thundermail, their own mail provider and productivity suite, and it looks promising already.


Servo vs Ladybird
I believe that Ladybird has more funding and better support for the web, but Servo wins in performance. Though, they're hard to compare directly!

No, Mozilla did not receive any USAID money
This sounds like a joke, but Mozilla has recently tweeted to announce they'd be losing $3.5M in U.S. federal funding, and now there seems to be some (admittedly, limited) public outcry about it.
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Mozilla has better lawyers than PR
Two days ago, Mozilla introduced new terms of use and an updated privacy notice for Firefox. This is the reaction. What the general public took out of the new terms is, well, we should probably switch to another browser. I spent yesterday reading tweets and private messages all saying something

Would you pay for Free Software?
For most of us who used smartphones for any length of time before switching to Linux, learning how to download a lot of graphical applications on a Linux distro was quite a smooth process: just open the app icon that looks like an App Store, and what you see is

Why the Asahi Linux lead developer resigned
Let's take a step back. I decided to begin this story in 2019, during the Linux Security Summit. Developers Alex Gaynor and Geoffrey Thomas decided to hold a talk called Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Safe Rust. In it, they made the case for adopting Rust in the

What's up with Linux on Snapdragons?
Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite is not there yet, but Tuxedo has a plan to ship their ARM-based Linux laptop anyway.





FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

