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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More

   The PipeWire project released today PipeWire 1.4 as a major update to this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams, and hardware on Linux systems.

   New

2. Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Brings AMD Zen 5 Support

   Xen 4.20 open-source type-1 hypervisor brings Arm LLC coloring

   New

3. KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, and More

   The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 24.12.3 as the third and last maintenance update for the KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite to fix more bugs in your favorite KDE apps.

4. today's howtos

   4 more howtos

5. Security Leftovers

   Security links and Linux

6. Security Leftovers

   Security related links

7. today's leftovers

   FOSS and more

8. ScummVM and Steam

   Gaming related picks

9. PostgreSQL News

   a pair of updates on PostgreSQL

10. Programming Leftovers

    Development related stories

11. FreeBSD and OpenBSD Leftovers

    BSD news

12. Red Hat, AlmaLinux, and More

    IBM's universe

13. Bits from Debian Project Leader and Dima Kogan

    Debian picks

14. Open Hardware/Modding: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More

    Linux and Hardware

15. Applications: Memos, syslog-ng, FFmpeg 7.1.1, and More

    Software news

16. today's howtos

    only 4 for now

17. Immich 1.129 Photo and Video Backup Solution Released

    Immich 1.129 fixes memory issues, adds video playback in memories and introduces shortcuts and QR codes for easier sharing

18. Tails 6.13 Released with Improved Wi-Fi Detection

    Tails 6.13, a privacy-focused Linux distro, improves Wi-Fi hardware detection

19. KeePass 2.58 Released with New Features [Ubuntu PPA]

    KeePass password manager released new 2.58 version few days ago

20. I Tried CachyOS, and Now It Might Be My New Main Distro

    Distro hopping isn’t exactly uncommon in the Linux world

21. Linux From Scratch 12.3 Version 12.3

    LFS and more

22. Android Leftovers

    Google on what makes a high-quality Android widget

23. Why You Should Switch To Linux And Quit Windows In 2025

    Microsoft wants to claim 2025 as the year of the “Windows 11 Refresh.”

24. 5 reasons you should swap from Windows to Linux

    While Linux may not have as many users as Windows, it has a lot of features that just make it astronomically better than Windows in almost every way.

25. today's leftovers

    Openwashing, Mozilla, and more

26. XpPen Deco 01V3 - review on GNU/Linux

    Modern versions of GNOME and KDE, running under Wayland

27. Red Hat Inks Linux Tie-Up with Rakuten Mobile, Alma and EPEL

    Some IBM bits

28. Audiocasts/Shows: PewDiePie on GNU/Linux, Destination Linux, Linux Matters

    some new videos/episodes

29. today's howtos

    13 howtos for now

30. Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out

    Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers

31. Windows TCO Leftovers

    7 stories of Windows TCO

32. Programming Leftovers

    Development links

33. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

    This is free and open source software

34. Blender App Makes it to the Big Screen

    The animated film "Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 97th Academy Awards held on March 2, 2025 and Blender was a part of it

35. Another laptop, another SSD revival, plus a dash of Linux

    decided to go with Kubuntu 24.04. Why Kubuntu, you ask? As I outlined in my Linux & hardware article

36. Seeking the latest in Linux? There's a right way and a wrong way to use Distrowatch

    Here's why Distrowatch is often misunderstood

37. Meet the Fedora Project Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025

    The Fedora Project is excited to participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025

38. Amazon tightens the digital handcuffs

    One of the most noteworthy events in the history of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) was Amazon's Orwellian deletion of George Orwell's 1984 from its customer's e-readers.

39. Games: Marketing Junk, Frostpunk 2, Steam, and More

    gaming related picks

40. Hardware Leftovers

    hardware picks

41. LWN on Linux Kernel

    new articles outside the paywall

42. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

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