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November 2026 1 post
PlanetFOSS: Weekly review, Bluesky and a search with filters
Every Monday, PlanetFOSS sums up the past week as a small magazine page: cover story, supernovas, new releases and the week in numbers. On top of that, PlanetFOSS now posts …
October 2026 6 posts
PlanetFOSS: Support your favorite sources directly
Blogs, magazines and publishers can now add a link to their subscription or donation page on PlanetFOSS. It shows up as a box on the source page, as a heart …
Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A show up in the kernel – while the Pi keeps getting pricier
Device trees in the kernel reveal a Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and a Pi 4 Model A. The new budget boards come at the right time: the former 35-dollar …
PlanetFOSS: Linux news that sorts itself
PlanetFOSS collects Linux and open source news from German and English sources and organizes it on its own: identical stories become bundles, new topics become comets, big events become supernovas. …
30 Years of KDE: Plasma 6.8 Drops X11, Plus a Birthday Documentary
KDE celebrates its 30th birthday and ships Plasma 6.8, which finally leaves X11 behind and runs on Wayland only.
GNOME Needs Volunteers for the Extensions Team: EGO Reviews Are Drowning in AI Submissions
Javad Rahmatzadeh volunteers to review extensions for extensions.gnome.org and is now asking for help. The team needs reviewers, people to improve the Shexli linter, and donations.
MusicBrainz Picard 3.0: Qt6, a New Plugin System and a Setup Wizard
After about three years of development, MusicBrainz Picard 3.0 is here. The tag editor moves to Qt6 and gets a completely new plugin system, sessions and a setup wizard.
September 2026 2 posts
Ubuntu Wiki: A Fresh Start with MediaWiki Instead of MoinMoin
The Ubuntu wiki now runs on new software: MediaWiki replaces the aging MoinMoin. The catch: the wiki starts with just around 50 pages, while the old content sits in the …
KDE: The Documentary premieres on October 14, right on time for the 30th birthday
The documentary studio CultRepo (formerly Honeypot) is dedicating a feature-length film to KDE. The trailer has been online since Saturday, and the premiere falls exactly on the 30th anniversary of …
May 2025 1 post
Mission Center 1.0: The GNOME System Monitor Pulls Out All the Stops
With version 1.0, Mission Center delivers a powerful and good-looking monitoring tool for GNOME. New on board: SMART analysis, GPU support for Raspberry Pi, a dark mode switch, and per-process …
