Team disagreements saw progress on SuperTuxKart hit the skids, but with new leadership in the driving seat, the iconic FOSS racer is getting back on track. #opensource #foss #gaming
Finding Firefox's AI features a bit sluggish? You weren't alone, so Mozilla is switching to a new, native C++ backend for on-device features. #Mozilla #Firefox #OpenSource
The fourth monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) is out, the final before the Ubuntu 25.10 beta release in September. Fancy testing it?
Meet Bazaar, a fast, standalone frontend for finding, installing, and updating Flatpak apps on Linux desktops. #Flatpak #linux #OpenSource
I tried Aviator at the weekend. It's an easy-to-use GTK4/libadwaita app for encoding AV1 videos on Linux using a quality-focused fork of the SVT-AV1 software encoder β€” yes, software. Don't be put off, this things is surprisingly fast, super straightforward, and creates high quality conversions at much smaller file sizes. Win-win, right? #av1 #opensource #linux
FFmpeg 8.0 is out, and it’s packed: Vulkan-based encoding/decoding (on any GPU that supports Vulkan 1.3), native ProRes RAW decoding, Whisper AI for speech-to-text, and new filters that offload to GPU. #FFmpeg #Linux #OpenSource
#OTD 34 years ago, Linus Torvalds sent a short post to the Minix newsgroup. The subject? An OS he was building β€” "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu", he said. That OS was Linux, the most successful computing operating system ever created (yes, really – it might not have won desktop, but it won everything in-between) #linux #tech image
Hyped for Thunderbird Pro? The team has shared an update on what's planned, including Thundermail e-mail address, appointment scheduling, file sharing, and maybe a bit more! #opensource #Thunderbird #email
I don't imagine many Linux users would trust a billy-no-name 'free' VPN extension, but friends and family might be less savvy to the dangers - dangers the researchers at Koi Security show are all too real. #privacy #vpn #security
I don't imagine many Linux users would trust a billy-no-name 'free' VPN extension, but friends and family might be less savvy to the dangers - dangers the researchers at Koi Security show are real for 100k users of this Chrome add-on. #privacy #vpn #security