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2019
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Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

The Inkscape project has released a beta version of the upcoming and much-awaited Inkscape 1.0 on September 17th! After releasing two less visible alpha versions this year, in mid-January and mid-June, Inkscape is now ready for extensive testing and subsequent bug-fixing.

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Debian 10 “Buster” Released

[16 Nov 2019] Updated Debian 10: 10.2 released [08 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 9: 9.11 released [07 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 10: 10.1 released [07 Sep 2019] Updated Debian 9: 9.10 released [27 Jul 2019] DebConf19 closes in Curitiba and DebConf20 dates announced [07 Jul 2019] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Buster — a complete…

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Firefox 69.0 Released

As of today, Enhanced Tracking Protection will be turned on by default, strengthening the security and privacy for all of our users around the world. We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.

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Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium

In 2015 Cliqz released its own desktop web browser, forked from Firefox. Up to that point, we had distributed our search and privacy products as a single Firefox addon. In this article we cover why we thought it necessary to create our own browser, why we chose Firefox, and why we think it was the right choice.

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Microsoft's “Love” of Linux

Recently Microsoft has been making a lot of announcements and releases of technology that fall under a supposedly “Microsoft Loves Linux” type of strategy. This is particularly noteworthy given the history of Microsoft since the end of the 90s. Their internal policy was a full attack on Linux 1 . and they were…

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Winding down my Debian involvement

This post is hard to write, both in the emotional sense but also in the “I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time” sense. Hence, please assume the best of intentions when reading it—it is not my intention to make anyone feel bad about their contributions, but rather to provide some insight…