OBS could sue Fedora, GNOME's new site & branding

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Feb 15, 2025

A brewing legal clash looms as OBS threatens to sue Fedora over its Flatpak packaging. Meanwhile, Fedora plans to pivot away from RPMs in app distribution. GNOME unveils a sleek new website and branding, while updates to GNOME 48 bring better notifications. KDE's Plasma 6.3 debuts alongside efforts for unified theming. On the browser frontier, Firefox is slashing RAM usage, while developers voice frustrations with Google Chrome's restrictive extension policies. All this paints a dynamic landscape in open source and Linux.

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OBS vs. Fedora

OBS threatened legal action against Fedora for their unofficial, broken Flatpak package.
Fedora's package caused issues for OBS users and was presented as the default OBS package.

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GNOME Software's Future

A GNOME/Red Hat developer aims to replace RPMs with Flatpaks in GNOME Software.
This long-term goal prioritizes Flatpaks for graphical application packaging.

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GNOME's New Website

GNOME's new website has a vague tagline: "An independent computing platform for everyone."
The website lacks the GNOME foot logo, potentially indicating a rebranding.

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