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As some of you might know, Google plans to control the way of getting applications on Android starting in September 2026 by forcing developers to pay a fee and provide government identification documents. That would mean that most of the FOSS apps out there that can be downloaded from Accrescent, Obtainium, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid and whatever else won't be installable anymore.

Althought Google announced to allow sideloading further, their statement didn't changed until now.

"Starting in September 2026, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed on certified Android devices"

If you want to help keep Android an open platform, see here: https://keepandroidopen.org

We can only hope that Google change that and/or allow sideloading further for "advanced" users whatever "advanced users" are (I'm ok with clicking three popups and the "are you seriously sure" button)

#android #keepandroidopen #opensource #freesoftware #fdroid #accrescent #izzyondroid #grapheneos #obtainium

Happy #ilovefs day, everyone!

A huge thank you to all the amazing free software community members who build and distribute the software we use everyday.

A special thank you (because I like and use these projects) to the Xfce team, the GrapheneOS developers, the Fedora and openSUSE community, the LibreOffice community, and the wonderful people behind the BSDs.

On another year of awesome free and open source software.

#opensource #freesoftware #linux #bsd #fedora #opensuse #archlinux #gentoo #voidlinux #debian #ubuntu #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #almalinux #rockylinux #libreoffice #grapheneos #xfce #gnome #kdeplasma #lxqt

I was asked many times over the last years which Linux distribution I would recommend for beginners. I always answered that they should try out multiple ones and choose the one that they like the most.

But, for the people that don't know where to start with that, here is my list of Linux distributions I would recommend for beginners in the Linux world.

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/articles/linux-distro-rec-beginners.php

#darkblueproject #linux #linuxdistribution #fedora #debian #archlinux #endeavouros #nobara #linuxmint #q4os #solusos #ubuntu #opensource #freesoftware

Today I've stumbled across old screenshots from my distro hopping adventures I made 4-6 years ago and remembered when I first learned about the differences between distributions and also between Linux and BSD.

Here are two of them that I've made from two i3wm setups, one on FreeBSD and one on Gentoo.

#freebsd #gentoo #linux #bsd

Hello guys!

The last few months were very eventful personally and I've only published the weekly news series and some articles. Now that many of the happenings are over, I have more time for the project and will (hopefully) announce a new addition very soon.

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe By the way, would you be open for a Teahouse as a neighbor to the BSD Cafe? 😉

#darkblueproject

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" has been released. A separated article about the changes in Ubuntu and it's flavors will be released tomorrow on the Dark Blue Project website.

#darkblueproject #ubuntu #linux

Since desktop environments can always change and many new releases came out since last year, I would like to know which desktop environment you currently use?

#gnome #kdeplasma #xfce4 #cinnamondesktop #matedesktop #budgiedesktop #lxqt #linuxdesktop #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #i3wm #bspwm #xmonad #dwm #fvwm #qtile #wayland #xorg

* Multiple choices possible