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First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 19
Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone
Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer
Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop’s New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support
HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve’s Gamescope Compositor
KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games
End of the 4.9 Kernel Series
CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables
Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements
Wine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes - Including Wine Wayland Fixes
Stadia Shuts Down Jan 28th
Google Stadia: Leaked Documents Explain its Failure
elementary OS 7 Available Now
Xfce Going Wayland
FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi
Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems
SIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project Wiki
Ubuntu Gets Real
Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability
Plasma 5.27
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released
Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New
FFmpeg 6.0 Released
FFmpeg on X: “FFmpeg CLI multithreading is now merged!” / X
Flathub in 2023
Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
Docker: We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
GNOME 44 Released
GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements
GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI
Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement
Plasma 6 Early Builds
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions
Btrfs Improvments in 6.4
Announcing Fedora Linux 38
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”
Message to Red Hat associates today
Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released
The new Flathub Website
Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look
Ubuntu 23.04 Released
Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap
HDR hackfest wrap-up
CVE-2023-28410: i915 graphics driver improperly restricts operations within the bounds of a memory buffer
New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges
bcachefs out for review
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced
Introducing Azure Linux
CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust
CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch
Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix
Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6
Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0
Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installs
Debian 12 “bookworm” released
Linux 6.4 Released
Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5
Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement
Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes
Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5
Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code
The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open
LXD Moves to Canonical
LXD has been re-licensed and is now under a CLA
Fedora Asahi Remix
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware
Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver
Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future
Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
Leap Replacement Discussion
Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]
“Nextcloud Hub 6” launched????
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks
Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers
Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
CPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interview
Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
Ubuntu 23.10 Released
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support
Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression
XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down
XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over
Element Going AGPL
Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News
Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
Fedora Change: Retire Modularity
Fedora Web Installer Delayed
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39
GNOME 45 Release Notes
Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
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PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
Quick OwnTracks-Recorder-in-Docker dummies guide
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