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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2023

Updated This Past Day

1. Red Hat’s RHEL 10 will Phase Out Xorg in Favor of Wayland

   RHEL 10’s plan reveals Wayland’s dominance in future Linux releases, focusing on enhanced display features

2. KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing

   The KDE Project released today the first beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment for public testing three weeks after the alpha development milestone.

3. NixOS 23.11 released

   This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2024-06-30)

4. LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha1 is available for testing

   LibreOffice 24.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024

5. Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop Environment Arrives with Initial Wayland Support

   Work on the Cinnamon 6.0 is over and the final release landed today on GitHub, so it’s my pleasure to guide you guys through some of the most important changes included in this major update.

6. This Month's Desktop/Laptop Operating System Market Share Across Europe, With Focus on GNU/Linux

   Norway is a bit of an outlier there

7. Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family

   We are thrilled to announce that Roundcube project has found a new home with Nextcloud

   New

8. Open Source Spacecraft Avionics With NASA's Core Flight System

   consists of an operating system abstraction layer (OSAL), the underlying OS (VxWorks, FreeRTOS, RTEMS, POSIX, etc.), and the applications that run on top of the OSAL alongside the Core Flight Executive (cFE) component

9. Security and Windows TCO

   many Windows incidents again

10. Red Hat: Shaping the Narrative With IBM's Media Budget

    "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Will Be Wayland-Only"

11. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

12. Proprietary Stuff and Leftovers

    some opposition news too

13. Programming With R: Releases and More

    Some R news

14. Free Software Leftovers

    4 more stories

15. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Canonical at CES 202

    Canonical bews

16. Steam Deck (GNU/Linux Powered) Sales Surge, Best PS2 Games For Emulation & Steam Deck (2023)

    some gamers' stuff

17. Security Leftovers

    incidents and breaches

18. Shotcut 23.11 Open-Source Video Editor Adds NVIDIA AV1 Hardware Encoding

    Shotcut 23.11 open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software written in Qt has been officially released today as a major update that brings some new features and lots of improvements.

19. Android Leftovers

    12 New Android Features Arrive Through Google Messages, Wear OS, More

20. OpenMandriva Lx 5 Review: Distribution of Simplicity and Power

    We test drive the OpenMandriva Lx 5 "Iodine", the latest release that combines user-friendliness with cutting-edge technology.

21. Fedora Family / IBM: Fedora Docs workshop and Cockpit 306

    Some Red Hat stuff

22. digiKam 8.2 Open-Source Photo Management App Is Now Available for Download

    digiKam, the open-source, free, and cross-platform professional photo management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows, has been updated to version 8.2.

23. Open Hardware: RISC-V, Yocto, ESP32

    3 new posts

24. Jonathan Riddell and Qt 6: KDiagram 3.0.0 and KWeatherCore 0.8.0

    Some KDE releases

25. Mozilla: Thunderbird for Android and Introducing llamafile

    Some Mozilla news

26. Security Leftovers

    half a dozen more links

27. Android Leftovers

    Samsung has updated these devices to Android 14

28. today's howtos

    5 howtos

29. NixOS 23.11 “Tapir” Released with the GNOME 45 Desktop and Wi-Fi 6 Support

    NixOS, a Linux distribution and a set of packages usable on other Linux systems and macOS, has been updated today to version 23.11.

30. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast, Linux Out Loud, LinDoz, Distrobox

    4 episodes

31. Android Leftovers

    These are the 10 best Android apps of the year – according to Google

32. Major Versions of PipeWire, Firefox arrive in Tumbleweed

    Rolling release users of openSUSE Tumbleweed who did a zypper dup on and after Monday will have a couple new major version updates

33. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming

    FOSS and coding

34. Open Hardware/Modding-Friendly Devices: Raspberry Pi and More

    Raspberry Pi articles and more

35. Security and Windows TCO

    mostly Windows TCO

36. Games: Gratuitous Space Shooty Game and Unity (Microsoft Mono) Still in Crisis

    2 stories

37. today's howtos

    many howtos for today

38. myAGV 2023 four-wheel mobile robot ships with Raspberry Pi 4 or Jetson Nano

    Both myAGV 2023 models run Ubuntu 22.04 with ROS, support online firmware updates via myStudio

39. 17 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers

    Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion