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Big news! Today we’re launching the GNOME Fellowship: funded positions for contributors to work on the GNOME project’s long-term sustainability. 🎉

We are starting with one 12-month fellowship; applications are open through April 20.

Find out more: https://fellowship.gnome.org/

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GNOME Fellowship

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Alexandre Mazari 4d ago

Technology Connections 4d ago

Welp, finally got that new video done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCfOazZCNQ

Oil pressure is the only thing keeping an engine alive

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Alexandre Mazari 6d ago

GTK 6d ago

RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/116251314261667336

The GNOME 50 run time comes with GTK 4.22, so you can now use all the new API in your applications.

Alexandre Mazari Mar 18

GNOME Mar 18

We are pleased to announce the release of GNOME 50! You can read about what our contributors have been working on at https://release.gnome.org/50

We’d like to use this new release as an opportunity to thank all of the contributors who made it happen. ❤️

Let us know what you think!

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Alexandre Mazari Mar 14

GNOME Mar 14

🚨 #GNOME 50 will be released on March 18!

😍 Star or/and boost this post if you're excited! With 5 more days to go we just asked our developers to drop their final GNOME 50 release of their projects.

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Alexandre Mazari Feb 20

Felipe Borges

Feb 20

🗣️ @gnome is participating in Google Summer of Code 2026!

Potential GSoC contributors may reach out with questions about our project ideas or #GNOME internships in general. Please direct them to https://gsoc.gnome.org to learn more.

You can find our proposed project ideas at https://gsoc.gnome.org/2026.

🗓️ Project proposal submissions are open from March 16th to 31st.

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Alexandre Mazari Feb 9

OSNews Feb 9

The official unplanned emergency OSNews fundraiser!

It's time for an OSNews fundrasier! This time, it's unplanned due to a financial emergency after our car unexpectedly had to be scrapped (you can find more details below). If you want to support one of the few independent technology news websites left, this is your chance. OSNews is entirely supported by you, our readers, so go to our

https://www.osnews.com/story/144352/the-official-unplanned-emergency-osnews-fundraiser/

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Alexandre Mazari Nov 15

Chris Trottier Nov 14

Linux fans get annoyed when I compare Valve to Apple, but the comparison is more accurate than they want to believe.

Apple’s OS core really is open source. That’s Darwin: XNU, large portions of BSD userland, networking subsystems, and low-level components released under Apple’s open-source license. And when Apple rolled it out in 1999, Eric S. Raymond stood on stage endorsing it because Apple wasn’t phoning it in—they were pouring real engineering into BSD.

And those contributions weren’t theoretical. Apple pushed hardware drivers BSD never had the resources to build: networking, storage, USB, FireWire. They drove kernel modernization: Mach scheduling upgrades, serious VM improvements, better SMP support. They introduced security models that rippled outward—MAC frameworks, sandboxing ideas, privilege separation strategies. They improved networking with IPv6 work, RFC compliance, Wi-Fi robustness, and mDNS/Bonjour. And Apple’s early, heavy funding of LLVM/Clang didn’t just benefit Darwin—it became the modern BSD toolchain because Apple paid for the hard parts.

Those contributions were real, substantial, and transformative—even though macOS itself stayed proprietary at the UI/framework layer.

And that’s the point.

Valve is doing the exact same thing. Their Linux work is real—Proton, Mesa pressure, kernel scheduling, shader pipelines—just like Apple’s BSD work was real. But the thing Valve protects is the thing that gives them leverage: Steam. Closed. Central. Non-negotiable.

Apple open-sourced the scaffolding and protected the part that mattered.

Valve open-sources the scaffolding and protects the part that matters.

Same strategy. Different era.

https://atomicpoet.org/notice/B0FbIBlMXv9kTiW27c

Alexandre Mazari Sep 17, 2025

Akseli

Sep 17, 2025

I really like how distinct KDE and GNOME philosophies are. (Not just for desktops, but whole apps).

Like GNOME tends to go for "one tool per one job" kind of thing.

Meanwhile KDE tends to go for different kind of multitools for jobs that are related to each other.

And the best part is, neither is wrong. And they can be mixed together. And that's so awesome to me. We can just go with our preference.

This is why I don't understand it when users argue which is "the best." I wish they spent all that energy and time advertising choices the linux desktop can offer.

Alexandre Mazari Sep 17, 2025

TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 17, 2025

Hey, lately, I've been generally unmotivated to contribute to free and open-source projects because I can't sustain myself long-term. I can't find any local or online job that allows me to make a positive impact and not feel depressed. I am not receiving a sufficient number of donations either.

I would really appreciate some donations. Your support would enable me to continue working on accessibility throughout @gnome and writing educational and informative articles.

You can donate to me via: Liberapay (preferred), Ko-fi, and GitHub Sponsors.

Boosts welcome and very much appreciated.

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