Ubuntu's 20th anniversary brings a revamped GNOME

Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole', the latest version of the Linux distribution,  has been released for the Linux operating system’s 20^th anniversary.

Gnome alone

The Red Hat Package Managers for LibreOffice have been orphaned, according to a post by Red Hat manager Matthias Clasen on the "LibreOffice packages" mailing list.

HorrorPills AI Gnome up and running

Rafal Mioduszewski, aka HorrorPills, has installed ChatGPT (Chat Generative-Pre-Trained Transformer) into a Gnome extension.

Could speed up Wayland display server development

GNOME developer Emmanuele Bassi has suggested that the next major release of Gtk could drop support for the X window system.

They are leaving Gnome after being a gnome for so many years

System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution already has their own "COSMIC" desktop that is based on GNOME but apparently it has had enough and wants to move to a Rust-based desktop.

News buried as GNOMEs triumph

Red Hat appears to have used the news of its takeover by IBM to bury the news that it was killing off KDE.

Users use Google mail

The open saucy Ubuntu is considering dumping the Thunderbird mail app because users tend to favour using webservices mail instead.

Shuttleworth takes axe to company

More than 80 Canonical workers are facing the axe as founder Mark Shuttleworth has taken back the role of chief executive officer at the open saucy outfit.

Gnome alone

Today is a big day for hand wringing and woe in the Linux world as Canonical admits that its Unity project was a waste of space and it gives up on its convergence plans for devices like phones and tablets.