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Ubuntu developers confirm plans to ship 2 new apps in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, replacing its video and system monitor apps with a pair it feels are more 'modern'. You're reading Ubuntu Replacing System Monitor and Totem with New Apps, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without... Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only, joining GNOME 50 in removing support for running the desktop session on the legacy X display server. As with GNOME, the change does not mean X11 applications will no longer work in Plasma 6.8 as they will run on Wayland using Xwayland. But a... Read more

Google has made its ‘next generation brand typeface’, Google Sans Flex, available for download — under an open source license, which is welcome news. A modern sans serif font purpose-designed for use on screens and OSes, Google Sans Flex is a ground-up, multi-axis rebuild of the proprietary Google Sans font,... Read more

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 has been released, bringing with it a brand new look, better accessibility and a couple of nifty new features baked in. A preview was released in October so, if you read regularly or you tried it out yourself, you’ll know the broad strokes of what’s new... Read more

Canonical's engineers have submitted pull requests to add RISC-V support to Google's Flutter toolkit, which Ubuntu uses to built many of its desktop apps. You're reading Ubuntu Upstreams Patches to Bring Flutter Apps to RISC-V, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.... Read more

When the Raspberry Pi 500+ was announced I’ll admit that I drooled. My first “computer” was an 8-bit Amstrad CPC 464, a hulking great clackity-clack keyboard with the computer (and tape deck, the primary means of loading and saving files) built in. The idea of a owning a premium modern... Read more

Using Apple AirPods Pro on Linux is easy enough, right? You pair them over Bluetooth and listen away – except, not quite. Many features of these gleaming white buds only work on macOS and iOS, meaning that using AirPods Pro on Linux comes with functional limitations: no active noise cancellation... Read more

Mozilla's new TABS API helps developers build AI agents to automate web tasks, as the company continues to bet on AI as its future. Details, pricing, and links inside. You're reading TABS API is Mozilla’s Latest Bet on the Agentic Web, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce... Read more

The Xubuntu team has shared an incident report on its October website breach. Attackers brute-forced the site to inject malware - but was anything else affected? You're reading Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.... Read more

A release candidate of the upcoming GIMP 3.2 release is now available for download and testing. GIMP 3.2 will be next major release of the free, open-source raster image editor, arriving a mere 8 months after the huge 3.0 milestone as a result of a new accelerated release schedule. Though... Read more

In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface.  We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In... Read more