Category Archives: FossNaija News

Sovereign Tech Fund Invests €1M In GNOME’s Open-Source Project

By | November 19, 2023

In a groundbreaking development, the GNOME Foundation, a pivotal player in the realm of open-source and Linux desktops for an impressive span of 25 years, has recently unveiled an extraordinary work commission. This momentous endeavour has been made possible through generous €1 million in funding from the esteemed Sovereign Tech Fund, financially backed by the… Read More »

Google’s Bard AI: ChatGPT Rival or The Next Frontier in AI and NLP Technology

By | February 8, 2023

Google has recently announced its new Artificial Intelligence (AI) language model, Bard AI, as a response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As the field of AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) continues to evolve, companies are racing to develop the most advanced AI models. And now, Google has entered the race with its new language model, Bard… Read More »

The Latest GNOME 43, “Guadalajara”, Released See What’s New

By | October 19, 2022

The GNOME project has announced the immediate availability and release of version 43 after putting in a lot of effort over the past six months. The most recent version of GNOME has a plethora of enhancements, some of which include a revamped Files app, an updated fast settings menu, and improved cooperation with hardware security.… Read More »

New Linux Foundation Open Source Programming Courses Offers for FOSS Developers.

By | January 28, 2022

The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of three new edX training courses covering Linux, Git, and other open-source development tools. A Professional Certificate in Open Source Software Development, Linux, and Git can be earned by taking the courses individually or in combination. Jerry Cooperstein, PhD, who has been working with Linux since 1994 and… Read More »

Mozilla Launches a Virtual Private Network (VPN) Service

By | July 31, 2020

No doubt if you have been using computers, most especially when accessing the internet, you would have come across that yellow logo above. That is the ubiquitous logo of an internet giant – Mozilla. To take its online privacy one step further, Mozilla has decided to venture into the VPN space by launching its own… Read More »

THE CHINESE DOMAIN SCAM AND OUR REACTIONS AT FOSSNAIJA.

By | June 30, 2020

Last month (May 8 to be precise) we got a very interesting email from one Albert Liu ([email protected]) which was in retrospect with the intention to scare us into purchasing unwanted domains from him and possibly other scam trick he’s got up in his sleeves. Claiming to be a staff of the Chinese domain name registration, he wrote that a company, Hongbo Ltd,… Read More »

Get Free Unlimited Private Repositories From GitHub

By | January 11, 2019

GitHub has announced that it now allows unlimited private repositories (“repos” for short). For those who don’t know, GitHub is an online code-hosting platform using the open-source version control software system called git. Code stored on GitHub can be modified and improved upon any an individual developer or group of developers; and any changes made… Read More »

Extern OS: the Linux you wish you had

By | October 26, 2018

One of the beautiful aspect of the Linux world is the availability of a variety of Linux distributions (ditros) to choose from. Ranging from the ones that powers space hardware (like rockets and the ISS) to the ones that can power your refrigerator; Linux has it all. Popular ones you would likely hear about include… Read More »

Graphic Server for IoT, mir, released

By | October 11, 2018

Mir is a wonderful software product from  Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu Linux. It has announced the release of mir application (mir 1.0.0). The very first major release by the Mir team.     Mir is graphics rendering server that can be used to render graphics on the screen of internet of things (IoT) devices. It… Read More »

Microsoft Acquiring GitHub for 7.5 Billion Dollars

By | June 12, 2018

Microsoft has finally hit the nail squarely in a much rumoured deal of acquiring GitHub.     Though the talks for the acquisition has been on and off for while according to rumours from unnamed persons close to the companies. Finally the rumours have been put to rest as it announced on June 4 that… Read More »