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Author: Sourav Rudra

This Dev Built an Office Suite Because His Wife Kept Going Back to Microsoft Office
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This Dev Built an Office Suite Because His Wife Kept Going Back to Microsoft Office

Sourav RudraOctober 14, 2026

Gaël Duval has already put out two beta releases of ElixirOffice, a desktop app and a self-hosted server version, and he is asking early testers

This New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to Do Nearly a Decade Ago
Tech

This New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to Do Nearly a Decade Ago

Sourav RudraOctober 13, 2026

Remember Ubuntu’s convergence dream? One operating system across your desktop, tablet, and phone, with apps that adapt to whichever screen you’re using. Canonical pursued that

Linus Torvalds Says He Likes Using AI, While His New Kernel Branch Credits Claude Code
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Linus Torvalds Says He Likes Using AI, While His New Kernel Branch Credits Claude Code

Sourav RudraOctober 12, 2026

Linus Torvalds has a new branch in his own kernel repository named noref-filemap-read-with-llm. It holds an eight-patch series built on Linux 7.3-rc6 plus fixes, and

BentoPDF Handles PDFs Locally, So You Don’t Have to Upload Them to Websites
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BentoPDF Handles PDFs Locally, So You Don’t Have to Upload Them to Websites

Sourav RudraOctober 10, 2026

There are plenty of online PDF tools that let you edit documents without installing anything on your computer. You just open a website, upload your

Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out
Tech

Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out

Sourav RudraOctober 8, 2026

Plenty of open source projects keep going on goodwill alone, with contributors putting in the hours and expecting nothing back. While others lean on outside

Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU
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Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU

Sourav RudraOctober 7, 2026

How does an operating system that isn’t proprietary or powered by the Linux kernel manage to run Docker, you ask? Well, it would need features

Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program
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Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program

Sourav RudraOctober 7, 2026

Since 2022, Google’s Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) has been the path for outside researchers to get paid for reporting security flaws

Red Hat’s Lightwell Doesn’t Wait for Upstream Maintainers to Act
Tech

Red Hat’s Lightwell Doesn’t Wait for Upstream Maintainers to Act

Sourav RudraOctober 6, 2026

Lightwell is Red Hat and IBM’s response to a specific problem in enterprise open source security. Vulnerabilities sit in production library versions that upstream maintainers

Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live
Tech

Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live

Sourav RudraOctober 5, 2026

The globally recognized tech and engineering company has quietly shut down the OpenRadioss project at the start of this month, keeping the GitHub page around

Ubuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement
Tech

Ubuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement

Sourav RudraOctober 5, 2026

You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu’s C-based system components with Rust-written equivalents that don’t compromise in terms of functionality, most of

The Netherlands Picked NixOS. France Was Already Using It
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The Netherlands Picked NixOS. France Was Already Using It

Sourav RudraOctober 3, 2026

When we heard about the Netherlands’ DAWO initiative, a formal mandate to replace outside software across Dutch public institutions with a NixOS-powered platform, we asked

F-Droid’s New App Shows it Isn’t Going Anywhere
Tech

F-Droid’s New App Shows it Isn’t Going Anywhere

Sourav RudraOctober 2, 2026

Since 2010, F-Droid has been the go-to place for downloading free and open source apps for Android. Its client app is the one people interact

YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI
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YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI

Sourav RudraOctober 1, 2026

yt-dlp has over 195,000 stars on GitHub, supports thousands of platforms, and is actively maintained by a global developer community. Unfortunately, the IFPI would like

Microsoft Has Made WSL Containers Available to Everyone
Tech

Microsoft Has Made WSL Containers Available to Everyone

Sourav RudraSeptember 30, 2026

Announced via a two-part series of blogs, Microsoft has moved WSL containers (WSLC) out of public preview and into general availability. Let’s take a look

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