Avast , the well-known security solutions company of Czech origin, has publicly shown its commitment to become one of the founding partners of the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF) , a project with which The Linux Foundation intends to promote a collaborative effort to create a base open source technology that serves to create interoperable digital wallets. Avast explains that the OpenWallet Foundation has three goals: to develop and maintain a robust open source engine for world-class digital wallets, to ensure interoperability between digital wallets, and to advocate for a level pla ..read more

ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.2 and ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors v7.2 are already among us as the latest version of this free office suite. The first refers to the basic functions of the suite that are distributed between the server and desktop applications, while the second refers to the specific applications for the desktop. Many may call this release ONLYOFFICE 7.2 for simplicity. The first thing that those responsible for the suite have highlighted is that the management of the plugins is now easier and simpler thanks to the new administrator , which allows you to exp ..read more

Are you looking for a smartphone that respects your privacy? If so, you should take a look at Murena One, a device originating from the company founded by the creator of Mandrake, Gaël Duval. If we pull antecedents, we can already guess that the operating system to use will be /e/formerly known as eelo and which is a fork of the popular LineageOS. Something paradoxical has happened in the smartphone sector, and that is that, despite the greater diversity of hardware manufacturers compared to what is seen in the x86 spectrum, alternative operating systems are having a much more difficult time ..read more

Although there are more and more lovers of the new application formats such as Flatpak or Snap, not AppImage, there is still time for them to prevail in the Linux environment. For different reasons. In the case of Snap, for example, Canonical is already trying to impose it and has never gone as far as in the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. And is this bad or good? Sometimes it depends on how you look at it. Despite the regrets, that one would say, there is only one thing for sure: Canonical is going to do what it wants with Ubuntu and that happens by putting Snap up in the soup. Broadly speaking, it ..read more

June has begun and Linux Mint has just published its monthly newsletter not for this month, but for the previous one, since as we all know, it not only collects the news in the development of the system and the project, it also does the same with the economic contributions received throughout this last section. All in all, what most interests us in these parts are the novelties and of these there are really only a couple to comment on, although both have the common denominator of XAppLinux Mint’s own applications to cover some of the basic needs of the three official flavors, Cinnamon, MATE a ..read more

Deepin 20.6 It is already among us to continue the development and evolution of the best-known Linux distribution of Chinese origin. As we can see, it is a project with a very active development and with constant releases, so let’s see what it has brought this time. The first thing that has been highlighted in Deepin 20.6 is the app store (App Store), which now supports in the filtering and sorting of search results differentiating between native Linux, Windows, and Android apps. In this way, it is intended that the user easily find the application that he really wants. The browser has includ ..read more

From June 1, 2022 to August 31, the registration period for the sixteenth edition of the Free Software University Contest (CUSL)corresponding to the academic year 2021/2022. On this occasion, the organization has decided to review the format, so that the projects that are registered will be evaluated in the first half of September, so that the final phase takes place in early October. A brief FAQ of the contest: Who can participate in the CUSL? University students (bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate), intermediate and higher level students, as well as high school students; all of them includ ..read more

Although from the official line of the project it has been insisted that it is oriented to the desktop, there are not a few who see GNOME-Shell as a hint of convergent interface oriented to touch devices. With a Phosh that has been trying for years to adapt the desktop to mobile phones, now it seems that there are real intentions of officially bringing it to this type of device, or at least that is what the post published by Jonas Dressler in the blogs of GNOME. Dressler says that, as part of the design process for GNOME 40, the team behind it was working on several experimental concepts, som ..read more

While PipeWire is starting to establish itself as the new default Linux sound server, that’s not to say that PulseAudio is dead, since its version 16 has recently appeared to extend the support and correct some things. We start with the part of the extension of the support mentioning that PulseAudio 16 is now capable of reporting the battery status of Bluetooth devices. This addition opens the door to reporting battery status via an app in case the desktop environment isn’t capable of doing so. Another aspect that has been modified is the latency tunnel, which is now configurable through the ..read more

The growth of videogames in Linux has motivated the creation of distributions oriented to this sector, so we are going to take advantage of the occasion to present (or remind, depending on how you look at it) Chimera OSan operating system that at least in appearance competes with the SteamOS 3 present in the Steam Deck. ChimeraOS is not a really new project, but was born as a result of the renaming of GamerOS, a system that we echoed a couple of years ago. Based on Arch Linux, it makes it easy to use Steam through good hardware support, pre-installs RetroArch, and includes Chimera (formerly S ..read more