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Since 2016, Internet stakeholders in the Philippines have advocated for changes to the country’s restrictive Internet provider regulations. Now, landmark connectivity legislation called Konektadong Pinoy is nearing passage and poised to bring Internet connectivity to rural communities that have been left behind by the digital divide.

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Ikey Doherty’s Serpent OS Changes Name to AerynOS

Why the big change after all this time developing this new Linux distro? Well, Ikey Doherty says that “the “Serpent OS” name was a quickly chosen name that stuck.” In addition, the developer thinks that “serpents” are often associated with negative connotations and that “Serpent OS” is not the most inviting name for a project.

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GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

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elementary OS 8.0.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

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This Week in KDE Apps: LSP Support in KDevelop, systemDGenie rewrite and big UI changes in Dolphin

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Mar 10, 2025

Quoting: This Week in KDE Apps - KDE Blogs —

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. This time we will cover the past two weeks as I was traveling last weekend.

Last week we released KDE Gear 24.12.3, which concludes the 24.12 series of KDE Gear. 25.04.0 is right around the corner, with only a few days left before the beta and feature freeze. Aside from the numerous bug fixes and polishing going on, we also had some pretty big changes in Krita regarding advanced text editing options, KDevelop with support for the LSP protocol, some big UI changes in Dolphin, and a complete rewrite of systemDGenie.

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