3+ hour, 5+ min ago   (594+ words) Starling is a new open source Linux desktop environment. One developer built it by directing Claude for about six months, ending up with a working desktop that boots into its own session with a compositor and window manager. Don't think…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago   (859+ words) Running local AI models has become surprisingly accessible. Install Ollama, pull a model, and you can start chatting with it in minutes. That's exactly how I began my journey with local AI. Using an LLM directly in terminal is okayish…...

7+ hour, 9+ min ago   (595+ words) Open source projects have mostly split into two camps on AI. Some keep a human in the loop, letting contributors use whatever tools they want as long as they take responsibility for the result. Others have gone further and banned…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (876+ words) From the Git repo's README to blogs, Markdown is everywhere in the tech world in general. I have been using Markdown for years. That's what I use for writing the articles here. While I often write directly in the CMS,…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (577+ words) OpenUK recently published its AI Openness report, and buried inside the 40-page document is a big ask from the UK government. Build Britain its own foundation that holds code, governance, and standards the way the Linux Foundation (LF) does in…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (781+ words) FireDragon is the default browser on Garuda Linux, the Arch-based distro known for its polished KDE Plasma spins and reliability despite riding the bleeding edge. It has traditionally run on a Floorp base, giving it Firefox's extension support wrapped in…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (708+ words) Have you ever wished for a file manager that shows you nothing but audio files that you can play, and then play them within the manager itself? Yeah, I haven't either. But if you had, I might have discovered the…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1443+ words) Every two years, Canonical puts out a Long Term Support release that gets five years of security updates, which can be stretched further with Ubuntu Pro. In between those LTS releases, Canonical ships an interim version every six months, and…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (425+ words) If update notifications have stopped showing up on your Ubuntu 26.04 LTS install, that isn't some random glitch. OMG Ubuntu's Joey Sneddon has traced it back to a Launchpad bug report and a Discourse thread that both point to the same…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (531+ words) Collabora Productivity has spent the past decade proving that an open source office suite can compete directly with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace without asking organizations to give up control of their infrastructure or their documents. All of that is backed…...