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Bonjour! Firefox Smart Window Users Now Get to Use a French AI

Mistral Small 4 is the latest in Smart Window's model lineup, available for users in France, Canada, and the US.

Microsoft’s CLI text editor now does syntax highlighting

Edit, Microsoft’s open-source command-line text editor, added syntax highlighting, improved regex handling in Find & Replace and new editing shortcuts in its v2.0.0 update. Microsoft open-so...

Ubuntu 26.10 snapshot 4 released

In the mood for testing? The fourth monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 is now available for download. It’s not just unusual for Ubuntu to release a monthly snapshot the same month as a beta releas...

FOSS Weekly #26.38: GNOME 51 Release, LibreOffice Image Trick, VMWare Drama, Fingerprint Reader for Linux and More

Latest assortment of Linux news and tips. Stay updated with FOSS Weekly.

Zsh Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Shell?

Think you've mastered zsh? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

Mistral wird KI-Anbieter für Firefox Smart Window

Mozillas KI-Assistent Smart Window nutzt nun Mistral-Modelle. Deutschland soll noch 2026 folgen. Beide Partner versprechen Null-Datenaufbewahrung.

Miracle-wm 0.11 gains a fancy new overview mode

Miracle-wm gains a ‘fancy’ new overview mode in its latest update, v0.11.0. For those unfamiliar, miracle-wm is a a tiling window manager built around the Wayland compositor Mir, with ambi...

The Famed PS5 Linux Project Lead Quits Over a Premature Exploit Report to Sony

Andy Nguyen blames AI-assisted bug reporters who ignored his request.

How an Italian Logistics Company Moved From Windows to Linux: A Real Migration Story

Mišo Oroz shares how he migrated a small transport and logistics company in,Bergamo, Italy to Linux and open source to reduce cost and ordinary technical problems.

Ubuntu schließt Rust-Umstieg ab

Ubuntu 26.10 migriert alle Standard-Coreutils auf Rust. Auch cp, mv und rm sind nun enthalten.

KI-Coding-Tools: Entwickler fordern Freiheit bei der Modell-Wahl

KI-Schmieden wie Anthropic und OpenAI stehen vor einem Dilemma: Sollen Entwickler ihre Coding-Tools mit beliebigen Modellen nutzen dürfen oder nur mit eigenen?

On Time! GNOME 51 Arrives With a Set of Improvements You Shouldn't Miss

Offline maps, a fingerprint manager, and a refined shell are some of the additions you can expect.

Euro-Office kommt auf den Desktop

Nextcloud Hub 26 Summer erweitert die freie Kollaborationsplattform. Euro-Office bekommt eine dedizierte Desktop-Anwendung.

heise+ | OpenTrafficMap: Live-Verkehrskarte im Eigenbau

Das Projekt OpenTrafficMap bringt den V2x-Verkehrsfunk ITS-G5 ins Internet. Das ist nicht nur spannend, sondern könnte auch bei der Verkehrsplanung helfen.

Local AI Weekly #2: Agents Everywhere

Debuggers, memory, and a browser for your agents. And a tool that finally tells you what your hardware can run.

GNOME 51 released with auth login

GNOME 51 is out, bringing FIDO2 passkey login, a Reduced Motion option and frame scheduling changes that make UI animations and scrolling feel smoother. Core apps pick up improvements too. The desktop...

I Spent Time With GeForce NOW to See If It's Gameable on Linux

The native Linux client recently left beta, so I tested it on Ubuntu to see how it performed.

The Simplest Method to Extract All Images from a Document in LibreOffice

Saves a lot of time and effort as you don't have to manually save all the images one by one. Also, this trick works with most office tools, if not all.

Ubuntu's Rustification Has a New Milestone! Coreutils Migration is Complete

The Ubuntu 26.10 release moves its last three GNU commands, cp, mv, and rm, to Rust.

Rune Goes Open Source, Looks to Share Revenue With Contributors

The Go-based IDE is now available under GPLv3, and contributors keep the rights to their work.

Orion for Linux beta update lets you customise the toolbar

A new beta of Orion for Linux, the native WebKitGTK port of Kagi’s iOS and Mac web browser, is out. Orion Beta v0.4.3 continues to flesh out the browser’s feature set to reach parity with ...

Firefox 156: PDF-Viewer startet bis zu 45 Prozent schneller

Mozilla hat Firefox 156 veröffentlicht. Die neue Version beschleunigt den PDF-Betrachter und optimiert den Speicher- und CPU-Einsatz.

heise-Angebot: CLC 2026: KI, Platform Engineering, Software Delivery – Frühbucherticket sichern

Die CLC 2026 zeigt KI-gestützte Softwareentwicklung, DevEx, Platform Engineering und Kubernetes-Betrieb. Frühbuchertickets gibt es bis zum 22. September.

Firefox 156 reduces CPU usage when viewing JPGs

Firefox 156 is out with faster start-up times for its built-in PDF viewer and lower CPU usage when viewing large JPEG images. As you browse the web you (pretty much always) see images smaller than the...

openEuler and the Race to Build Asia's AI Infrastructure

openEuler is an open-source project incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation. The community is expanding international collaboration through local user groups, industry partnerships, and part...

Conflux icon set gives a modern look to Linux desktops

Conflux is a new Linux icon set that aims to be both beautiful but neutral – I think it succeeds at both. The author of Conflux said they struggled to find a “modern-looking” icon pack for...

OpenObserve zeigt, warum KI-Agenten falsche Antworten geben

OpenObserve 1.0.0 bietet eine neue Observability-Umgebung für LLM-Anwendungen, erweiterte Alarme, SLOs und schnellere PromQL-Abfragen.

Paperweight: An Open Source App to Clean Up Your Inbox and Digital Footprint

Paperweight scans your inbox locally to find mailing lists, forgotten accounts and breach risks, with bulk unsubscribe and GDPR request tools.

Shotwell 33 goes stable with its long-awaited GTK4 port

Shotwell 33 is out, the first stable version of the photo manager for GNOME desktops to use GTK4. A GTK4 port of Shotwell has been in the works since 2025. It’s the first big toolkit port the im...

MAKERphone 2.0 Lets You Build a 4G Phone and Vibe-Code Its Apps

It runs on an ESP32-S3, takes a real SIM for 4G calls and texts, snaps together without soldering. Code your own app, away from social media.

Ubuntu 26.10 completes its transition to Rust-based coreutils

Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to memory-safe versions. cp, mv and rm were held...

This Tiny Fingerprint Key Unlocks Linux, Approves SSH and AI Agents

Immurok is a wireless fingerprint reader that wants to guard your sudo, your SSH logins, your TOTP codes, and even your AI coding agent. Here is how it held up on Linux over a week of daily use.

KI-Bots von OpenAI griffen Open-Source-Plattform RubyGems an

Ein Schwarm KI-Bots griff im Mai die Open-Source-Plattform RubyGems an. KI-Experten führten die Spur auf OpenAI zurück.

Interview: Zehntausende US-Dollar Schaden durch aufgeblähte Sicherheitswarnungen

Meldungen zu Sicherheitslücken sind für Open-Source-Projekte wichtig – viele davon seien inzwischen aber aufgeblähtes Marketing, meint Peter Gutmann.

Microsoft-Alternativen: Open-Source-Software aus Europa | c’t uplink

Bloß weg von US-Diensten? Im c’t uplink diskutieren wir über digitale Souveränität und stellen Microsoft-365-Alternativen wie openDesk vor.

Ubuntu pulls 24.04.5 downloads due to installer bug

Canonical has pulled the Ubuntu 24.04.5 desktop ISO because of a bug that crashes the installer when users select the extended install options. The fifth point release to 24.04 landed on 10 September,...

Default terminal option is coming to GNOME Settings

An option pick a default terminal is to GNOME Settings, as the image above, teased by developer Ignacy Kuchciński last week, shows. Those of you who don’t use the command line often enough to ca...

Bottles' Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux

As of now, he has the desktop app installing and signing in.

Herdr: Terminal-Multiplexer sortiert Flotten von Coding-Agenten

Herdr bündelt langlebige Terminal-Sitzungen und zeigt, welcher Coding-Agent auf Eingaben wartet. Omarchy Linux integriert das junge Open-Source-Projekt.

Linux Mint announces two new desktop apps

Two new apps are coming to Linux Mint later this year: a new calendar and eBook reader. A redesigned document hub will also be included to make it easier to find and manage files on your device. The n...

GIMP 3.2.6 released with faster font loading, Wacom barrel rotation

GIMP 3.2.6 has arrived, a new maintenance update in the 3.2.x series that made a splash earlier this year. You won’t find any major new features, but plenty of improvements – not least in font h...

Ubuntu 26.10 will now ship with Linux 7.3

Ubuntu 26.10 is getting a newer kernel than planned: Canonical has switched its target from Linux 7.2 to Linux 7.3. You're reading Ubuntu 26.10 will now ship with Linux 7.3, a blog post from OMG! Ubun...

Linux Kernel is Getting Ready to Purge 55,00 Lines of Old 32-bit Arm Platform Code

These thirteen patches would delete the deprecated platform code, and the driver cleanup will follow later.

Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS released with Linux kernel 7.0

The fifth (and final planned) point release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available to download. Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS brings refreshed installation media (ISOs) that includes of the software updates, bug f...

Liquid Glass extension for GNOME Shell

You can now give the Ubuntu desktop a ‘Liquid Glass’ makeover using a new GNOME Shell Extension that written with ‘significant’ help from AI. Its developer, Ryosuke Watanabe, s...

FOSS Weekly #26.37: Swiss Linux Move, Flyline, PPA Guide, Fedora Win Over Windows and More

Omarchy is an unstoppable force.

Sicherheitslücken in ePA-Clients: „Die Implementierungen hatten blinde Flecken“

Sicherheitsforscher sorgten für Fixes kritischer Lücken in ePA-Clients und der Telematikinfrastruktur. Simon Weber erklärt die Details im Interview.

Omarchy Linux Quiz

Omarchy fan? Test how much you know about the hottest distro of the year 2026.

Broadcom Kills Public VDDK Access to Tighten its Grip on VMware

Existing copies still work; getting a fresh one is another matter. They seem to have "forgotten" to announce this.

5 Linux Distros Bringing AI to Your Desktop

One project has raised $15.5 million for its foundation, while Ubuntu 26.10 is starting with nothing more than voice dictation.