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FOSS Weekly #26.38: GNOME 51 Release, LibreOffice Image Trick, VMWare Drama, Fingerprint Reader for Linux and More
It's FOSS reader Mišo Oroz shares how he migrated a small transport and logistics company in, Bergamo, Italy to Linux and open source to reduce cost and ordinary technical problems. This is the kind of positive stories we need to hear more.
Another positive news is that Rune, a Go-based IDE for Linux and macOS, went GPLv3 this week with no CLA requirements, with contributors keeping copyright over their work. The more interesting part is the revenue-sharing plan. Accepted contributions earn credits, and a slice of eligible service revenue gets split among contributors based on those credits.
Check out the features in newly released GNOME 51. Arch-based distro users should get it in the next few weeks, hopefully. Upcoming major releases like Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora 45 will also offer it.
Ubuntu has completed its coreutils migration to Rust, with cp, mv, and rm finally making the jump. Earlier, an audit commissioned by Canonical found 113 problems across two rounds, 44 of which got assigned CVEs, and the vast majority are now resolved.
Mirko Brombin, the creator of Bottles, recently got Microsoft 365 installing, signing in, and launching Word on Linux using unreleased software that he is currently working on. Don't get your hopes too high, though. It's all experimental.
The Linux kernel is finally moving ahead on some of the 32-bit ARM platform removals that have been on the table for years. Initially, thirteen patches target Linux 7.4, covering old hardware like the Acorn RiscPC, SA1100 boards, OMAP24xx, and various STM32 microcontrollers.
Leaving VMware just got harder thanks to Broadcom quietly revoking public access to VDDK, the SDK that backup and migration tools use to read VMware virtual disks.
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Bruce Schneier and EFF's Cindy Cohn have written a strong piece on how mass surveillance has outlived its terrorism justification. Instead, it's being used to breach constitutional rights and carry out systemic abuse.
This time I have another LibreOffice hack to share with you. If you are bothered by having to manually right-click document pages to extract images, you can extract all the images by saving your documents as HTML.