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I Tried This Open Source Chat GPT Alternative on Linux, But Went Back to Ollama
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (1444+ words) I may hate AI slop but I am not a AI hater. I have found decent use of the AI tools and I try to include these tools in my workflow wherever it makes sense. While mainstream LLMs like Chat…...
Reverse WSL? I Tried This New Tool to Integrate Windows Apps in Linux
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1293+ words) Microsoft's WSL allows people to use Linux inside Windows. It integrates well in the system allowing people to use Linux command line Windows. Linux GUI apps can also be used, which helps for editing config file in GUI-based editors. Now…...
Warp's Oz Platform Can Now Run Claude Code and Codex Alongside Its Own Agent
1+ week, 4+ day ago (397+ words) The folks over at Warp have been busy building out their Oz platform since we covered the initial launch back in February. The service takes care of the infrastructure side of running coding agents at scale, covering sandboxing, scheduling, monitoring,…...
FOSS Weekly #26. 21: Microsoft's Distro, Bitwarden Drama, Adobe on Linux, New Email Client and More
1+ week, 4+ day ago (919+ words) The Fedora AI Developer Desktop initiative that passed unanimously is now blocked. Two council members retracted their votes after community pushback, with contributors arguing the CUDA focus contradicts Fedora's free software foundations and that significant kernel policy changes hadn't been…...
Wow! Microsoft Now Has a Fedora-based Linux Distro
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (522+ words) At the Open Source Summit this week, Microsoft announced a range of open source-focused updates, ranging from new Linux distro releases to agentic AI tooling. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and Corporate VP for Azure OSS and Cloud Native at…...
Libre Plan 1. 6. 0 Released With Better Collaboration Tools and 15 New Languages
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (358+ words) If you have not heard of Libre Plan before, then you wouldn't be alone. When they sent us a press release, I was wondering what this project was for. Then I read up on it, and it turns out to…...
Someone Vibe-Coded Lightroom CC Into Running on Linux, and I am Not Touching It
2+ week, 1+ day ago (420+ words) Someone has managed to make Adobe Lightroom CC run on Linux via Wine. Don't get it confused with the other Adobe offerings though; this is the cloud-syncing desktop version of Lightroom. Sander Hilven, a developer, has put together a working…...
I Gave Desktop Email Clients Another Shot and This New App Delivered
2+ week, 3+ day ago (817+ words) If you are someone who has to tackle many emails throughout the day, an email client is most likely part of your workflow. For the uninitiated, these desktop applications let you manage one or more email accounts from a single…...
Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative
2+ week, 4+ day ago (514+ words) What looked like a done deal for Fedora is now very much on hold. The Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposal to build an official platform for AI and machine learning workloads on Fedora, has been blocked after two…...
Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1797+ words) For the longest time, I assumed running LLMs locally needed a decent GPU. That's what most guides implied, and honestly, that's how the ecosystem felt not too long ago. But after digging into recent tools and actually trying things out…...