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Red Hat orphans LibreOffice
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Monday, 05 June 2023 11:57

Red Hat orphans LibreOffice


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.

Gnome display manager gets ChatGPT
Published in AI
Friday, 20 January 2023 11:44

Gnome display manager gets ChatGPT


HorrorPills AI Gnome up and running

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

GNOME developer calls for X window chop
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Wednesday, 06 July 2022 11:31

GNOME developer calls for X window chop


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.

System76's Pop!_OS Linux to create Rust based desktop
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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.

Red Hat killing off KDE
Published in News
Friday, 02 November 2018 12:12

Red Hat killing off KDE


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.

Ubuntu might retire Thunderbird
Published in News
Thursday, 20 April 2017 09:53

Ubuntu might retire Thunderbird


Users use Google mail


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

More than 80 Canonical workers replaced by GNOMES
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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.

Canonical throws in the towel on Unity
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Thursday, 06 April 2017 11:23

Canonical throws in the towel on Unity

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.

Tuesday, 26 October 2010 10:17

Canonical to dump GNOME

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Open Sourcers insist that there is no place like Gnome