GNOME OS ready for more extensive testing
While it’s still early days and it’s not recommended for non-technical audiences, GNOME OS is now ready for developers and early adopters who know how to deal with occasional bugs (and importantly, file those bugs when they occur). ↫ Tobias Berna...
“My experience with Canonical’s interview process”
A short while ago, we talked about the hellish hiring process at a Silicon Valley startup, and today we’ve got another one. Apparently, it’s an open secret that the hiring process at Canonical is a complete dumpster fire. I left Google in April 202...
7 ways to improve your AI coding results
Leaders are calling for more AI use in favor of hiring additional engineers, expecting developers to “10x” themselves. But there’s an art to actually being productive using AI coding assistants. For starters, AI coding assistants have known stre...
Demystifying serverless in the modern data and AI landscape
Serverless computing has proliferated across cloud platforms, yet its core principles are widely misunderstood and misused. Much of the industry treats serverless as being synonymous with infrastructure abstraction or automation, but this is a limited...
Private cloud still matters—but it doesn’t matter most
For all the hype about “cloud-first” strategies, the enterprise data center is far from extinct. In fact, roughly half of enterprise workloads still run outside the public cloud, residing in on-premises data centers or private clouds. Industry sur...
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - May 2025
May ended with a large update for openSUSE’s rolling release. While that snapshot addressed several Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, more security fixes were introduced throughout the month. May introduced qemu 10.0 with improved virtualization ...
Linux App Release Roundup: May 2025
I run through a selection of smaller Linux app releases made in May 2025, from a flashy MPD frontend to a local AI-powered image enhancer. You're reading Linux App Release Roundup: May 2025, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere with...
Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo
Ubuntu 25.10 will replace the sudo command with sudo-rs, a new Rust rewrite designed to improve memory safety and security. What does this mean for users? You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not rep...
Flatpak “not being actively developed anymore”
At the Linux Application Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flatpak is doing great. The Flatpak application-packaging format is popular with upstream developers, and with many users. More and more applications are being p...
The Copilot delusion
And the “copilot” branding. A real copilot? That’s a peer. That’s a certified operator who can fly the bird if you pass out from bad taco bell. They train. They practice. They review checklists with you. GitHub Copilot is more like some guy who...
CheerpJ WebAssembly JVM previews Java 17 support
Leaning Technologies has released CheerpJ 4.1, an update of its WebAssembly-based JVM for the browser that previews support for Java 17 and improves support for mobile devices. Introduced May 28, CheerpJ 4.1 follows last month’s CheerpJ 4.0 release,...
The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini
Opera Mini was first released in 2005 as a web browser for mobile phones, with the ability to load full websites by sending most of the work to an external server. It was a massive hit, but it started to fade out of relevance once smartphones entered m...
Angular v20 arrives with eyes on generative AI development
Angular v20 is now available. The new version of Google’s web framework stabilizes APIs and features such as incremental hydration, promotes Zoneless (which removes ZoneJS as a dependency) to developer preview, improves debugging, and improves suppo...
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
The final issue of Linux Format, the UK's best selling monthly Linux magazine, has gone on sale. The first issue launched in May 2000. You're reading After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsew...
