Denmark’s Government Ditches Microsoft for Open Source

Denmark is making ‘digital sovereignty’ a priority, replacing Microsoft and other US big tech products with Linux and open source. You’re reading Denmark’s Government Ditches Microsoft for Open Source, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

Ubuntu 25.10 Adds New Rust Library to Default Installs

A new Rust-based library is included by default in Ubuntu 25.10 ‘Questing Quokka’, designed to bolster Canonical’s hardware story for Ubuntu Pro. The rust-hwlib package is described as “part of the hardware-api project, owned and developed by Canonical Hardware Certification team. It will be used by Ubuntu pro-client to retrieve information about the machine and

[$] CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork

The open-source mobile app Organic Maps is used by millions of people on both the Android and iOS platforms. In addition to featuring offline maps (generated from OpenStreetMap cartography) and turn-by-turn navigation, it also promises its users greater privacy than proprietary options. However, controversial decisions taken by the project’s leaders, feelings of disenfranchisement among contributors,

5 Best Free and Open Source Text Expander Tools

A text expander can be extremely powerful as it detects when you type a keyword and replaces it while you are typing. People often use them to write quick text snippets. The post 5 Best Free and Open Source Text Expander Tools appeared first on Linux Today.

Radicle Desktop released

The Radicle peer-to-peer code collaboration project has released Radicle Desktop: a graphical interface designed to simplify more complex parts of using Radicle such as issue management and patch reviews. Radicle Desktop is not trying to replace your terminal, IDE, or code editor – you already have your preferred tools for code browsing. It won’t replace

Run the last command as root

$ sudo !! Useful when you forget to use sudo for a command. “!!” grabs the last run command. View this command to comment, vote or add to favourites View all commands by root Diff your entire server config at ScriptRock.com

PaloAlto init-cfg.txt Bootstrap Config file Layout with Examples

When you install and configure the PaloAlto firewall, when the firewall boots up for the first time, it does the bootstrapping process. PaloAlto uses the settings defined in the bootstrap files, including the init-cfg.txt and bootstrap.xml under the config folder to configure the initial state of the firewall. For example, during the bootstrap process, it

Guake Drop-Down Terminal Emulator Sees New Release

Guake 3.10 has been released with the ability to choose which search engine to use with its “Search on Web” feature, a new pin button to temporarily prevent hiding, and more. Guake is a drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop which includes split terminal functionality, session save/restore, support for transparency, and many other features. While