You know funding open source is a hard problem when even the platform dedicated to funding open source software gets closed because it couldn't get enough funding.

Open Collective is shutting down.
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/regarding-the-announcement-to-dissolve-open-collective-foundation

If you are interested in developing open source medical solutions, then perhaps you want to take a look at the following set of helpful open source projects:

https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/15-openmedlab-open-source-medical-ai-models-and-tools

This is an important blog post about upcoming font rendering and fractional scaling enhancements in Gtk 4.14:
https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/

You would need to use a modern Linux distro to receive such update, though.

We maintain the main website of FOSS Post where new content gets published, the forum where interesting discussions and topics are created and social media channels where we cover important open source news directly from the source.

Join us on Patreon so that we can continue these efforts:
https://www.patreon.com/fosspost

Linux kernel 6.8 has been released.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiehc0DfPtL6fC2=bFuyzkTnuiuYSQrr6JTQxQao6pq1Q@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

Mozilla in collaboration with developers of other browser engines like Blink (Chrome) and Webkit (Safari) have announced the release of Speedometer 3: A benchmark for web browsers to measure their responsiveness according to modern web standards.

Take the test here and tell us how much score you got + what browser you are using: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0

Updates from System76 about their COSMIC desktop and its new features: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-more-alpha-more-fun

Very excited to put our hands on it once it becomes stable.

5 Live Linux systems that you can use for data restoration and data backups.
https://fosspost.org/recovery-clone-systems-save-disk-data/

See this hilarious bug in openSUSE KDE (Tumbleweed), and remember Windows XP bugs back in the day. 😁

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1bi5yvo/hilarious_bug_after_a_fresh_install/

Firefox 124 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/124.0/releasenotes/

Warning to those installing KDE themes and addons... You might lose your entire disk data, just like this user did.
https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/16-kde-6-global-theme-removed-all-user-data

GNOME 46 has been released.
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/03/20/introducing-gnome-46/

Normally we do not cover alpha/beta/RC releases of software, but Linux kernel 6.9 RC1 has been released, and so far it is full of new and interesting features: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-rc1-Released

Makes you wonder, if this is the RC1, then until the final release there will be so much more. 🎉😎

We have a few supporters on our Patreon campaign (less than 10 actually).

Can we double their number by the end of the month? 😍

Remember: It's just one cup of coffee per month.
https://www.patreon.com/fosspost

Here are the technical aspects for creating our forums website, and how you can also follow the same steps if you like to create an open source powered forum or community platform:

https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/17-creating-a-modern-open-source-forum-in-2024

A backdoor was discovered in upstream "xz" package, which found its way to many Linux distributions. It was pushed by a malicious maintainer for the project.

Details from:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Check the "Boot Repair" program so that you can easily fix your bootloader issues on Ubuntu/Linux.
https://fosspost.org/fix-boot-grub-problems-ubuntu-linux/

ffmpeg 7.0 has been released.
https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr7.0

German state moving 30K PCs to LibreOffice.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

Penpot 2.0, the open source UX and prototyping tool, has been released: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-2-0-a-major-milestone-in-our-journey-is-now-yours-to-explore-and-enjoy/4906