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Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed
Greetings Programs!! It's been a minute and we have a ton of stuff to do before the @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 release next week, so lets get to it!
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Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more.
Roughly this time tomorrow I’ll be chatting with the folks at Sensemaking Scenius about all things Open Source, something I’ve dedicated >20 years of my life to and have *opinions* about.
I reckon it’s high time we made OSS an innately anti-fascist movement that doesn’t pander to oligarchs and autocrats. Let’s talk about it!
We love hearing from you and take pride in a tight feedback loop where we push updates in weeks not years. Since the release of OS 8, we’ve been able to address over 1,100 of the reports you filed!
~72% of them were fixed bugs—unexpected or disruptive software behaviors
~18% were new features or enhancements that you requested
The last 10% were things like project management tasks, tech debt, and code cleanup
Today in User Space
🚀We get a full release
⚡Baked in syncing
🧑💼An entirely new #Mozilla CEO
🫰Take a deep look at Snaps
✅And make a few corrections
🎄Finally, a quick holiday break!
Reading RSS feeds from the terminal 💯
⚡ **eilmeldung** — A fast & powerful TUI RSS reader.
🚀 Vim-inspired navigation, zen mode, filtering with queries & sane defaults.
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/christo-auer/eilmeldung
#rustlang #tui #ratatui #terminal #rss #news #productivity #opensource
Today in User Space
🚀We get a full release
⚡Baked in syncing
🧑💼An entirely new #Mozilla CEO
🫰Take a deep look at Snaps
✅And make a few corrections
🎄Finally, a quick holiday break!
Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more.
Many notebooks and tablets now ship with displays that aren’t quite HiDPI, but are more pixel dense than traditional displays. In OS 8.1, we now support fractional display scaling in the Secure Session
We love hearing from you and take pride in a tight feedback loop where we push updates in weeks not years. Since the release of OS 8, we’ve been able to address over 1,100 of the reports you filed!
~72% of them were fixed bugs—unexpected or disruptive software behaviors
~18% were new features or enhancements that you requested
The last 10% were things like project management tasks, tech debt, and code cleanup
Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed
Reading RSS feeds from the terminal 💯
⚡ **eilmeldung** — A fast & powerful TUI RSS reader.
🚀 Vim-inspired navigation, zen mode, filtering with queries & sane defaults.
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/christo-auer/eilmeldung
#rustlang #tui #ratatui #terminal #rss #news #productivity #opensource
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
