7 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software
This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.
Tux Machines
Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
Europe is updating its telecommunications rules through the Digital Networks Act (DNA). The European Commission published its proposal in January, and it is now the European Parliament’s turn to develop its position.
KDE Plasma 6.7.6 is a pretty modest update that updates the Wi-Fi & Networking page in System Settings to fully fit within the window at its default and minimum size, updates the Brightness & Color widget to no longer show a spurious control for keyboards without backlight or that don’t support backlight control, and updates the Clipboard widget to no longer disappear from the system tray when its panel is over 100px thick.
Based on the recently released Fedora Linux 45 release, Fedora Asahi Remix 45 ships with the Wayland-only KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment by default and introduces out-of-the-box initial support for Apple M3, Apple M3 Pro, and Apple M3 Max machines.
Coming two months after LibreOffice 26.2.6, the LibreOffice 26.2.7 release is packed with more fixes to address various bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users in an attempt to improve the overall stability and reliability of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.
Coming more than a year after openSUSE Leap 16.0, the openSUSE Leap 16.1 release folds Leap Micro, openSUSE’s immutable server distribution, into Leap itself through a new Immutable Mode, which lets you transactionally update a system with a read-only root file system.
Coming six months after Fedora Linux 44, the Fedora Linux 45 release is powered by the Linux 7.2 kernel series and features the latest GNOME 51 desktop environment by default for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, and the latest KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment by default for the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop flavor.
Coming almost two months after GIMP 3.2.6, the GIMP 3.2.8 release adds DPI information when copying an image to the clipboard, restores Offset as a non-destructive filter, adds the ability to cancel font loading in the middle when quitting GIMP early, and improves Dot to Dot support to work better even on integer scaling.
Coming three months after aerynOS 2026.08, the aerynOS 2026.11 release is powered by the Linux 7.2 and Linux 6.18 LTS kernels, and features the latest and greatest GNOME 51 desktop environment by default on the live ISO, along with support for KDE Plasma 6.8 and COSMIC 1.11, and, for the first time, Budgie 10.10 desktop.
Coming a month after Audacity 4.0.1, the Audacity 4.0.2 release restores automatic saving during recording, restores trim, clear selection, and zoom shortcuts, adds PgUp and PgDown timeline scrolling, improves playback latency from input meter display, improves the status bar layout in narrow windows, and improves file importing on Linux.
Indictment for the Cheeto dictator
Take it easy
Duh.
It looks like they will receive several “F” grades
Vote in the ballots, not in social control media (which does not count and won’t be counted)
aka “green-eyed bird”
We’ll always remember
The scarce joy
his coming weekend (Sunday) Stevie Wonder will be back in Manchester. Mariah Carey comes here a month later. They will perform across the road from us.
“When you point the finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back to you”
This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.