FOSSPicks
FOSSPicks
This month we explore the top FOSS, including one of the great ebook managers, an anarcho-pacifist Doom clone, and a Monero CPU miner.
A Million KDE Dreams
KDE has just received a significant vote of confidence from an unexpected quarter: Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency has committed EUR1,285,200 to the project across 2026 and 2027. The funding, channelled through the Sovereign Tech Fund, is earmarked for some genuinely foundational work: shoring up Plasma's QA infrastructure, improving recoverability mechanisms, strengthening security for organizational deployments, and overhauling data backup and restore systems, among others.
As Fiona Krakenbürger, director of technology at the Sovereign Tech Agency, put it: "The desktop holds personal data and mediates nearly every service we depend on…. We are investing in KDE because it is one of the two major desktop environments used across Linux and plays a key role in how millions of people experience open technology."
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