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Tewi 2.0.0: Postfix 3.10.7: PeerTube 8.0: Nginx 1.29.4: libxml2 goes unmaintained: Cinnamon 6.6: The first stable release of the COSMIC desktop environment: Ubuntu MATE 26.04 and Ubuntu Unity non-LTS: Pop! _OS 24.04: NICE.OS: Mir 2.25: Capsudo: VPN providers lie, shocker…: GNOME project banned the use of AI to generate additions to GNOME Shell Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper: ...

NixOS 25.11: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1: FreeBSD 15.0: ONLYOFFICE 9.2: AlmaLinux for Professional Video Studios: Linux kernel 6.18 LTS: Alpine Linux 3.23 and APK 3.0: MinIO change: Solaris 11.4 SRU87: Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0: GNOME session restore management: nftables 1.1.6: Release of Oracle Linux 10.1: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stard...

GrapheneOS backdoor: Blender 5.0: and: Raspberry Pi OS: Open Source Software for the Pebble Watch: ROSA Fresh 13.1: Oracle Linux 9.7: CDE 2.5.3: Collabora Office: AV Linux MX 25: Redis 8.4: MiniOS 5.1: Niri 25.11: 4MLinux 50.0: Solus 4.8: EndeavourOS 25.11: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic CC BY 4.0

Debian Libre: openSUSE is developing zssh: AlmaLinux 9.7: Budgie 10.10 desktop environment preview, ported to Wayland Mesa 25.3: Xubuntu.org hack report: MyLibrary 4.3: Zorin OS 18 has been downloaded a million times: 6 GRUB2 Bootloader vulnerabilities that can bypass UEFI secure boot: Agama 18: MariaDB 12.1: GCC and ALGOL 68: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: F...

This month: How-To : GTK4 Programming in C, Godot Intro [NEW!] and Latex Graphics : Inkscape Review : Kubuntu 25.10 & Furnace Ubuntu Games - Book of Hours plus: News, Command and Conquer, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

Trinity 14.1.5: MX Linux 25: Easyeffects 8.0.0: KDE Plasma Mobile 6.5: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16 bugfix: Tribblix 38: GNU Taler 1.1: yt-dlp & JavaScript engine: Miracle-wm 0.8: Ubuntu LTS support period extended to 15 years: Vivaldi 7.7: Thunderbird 145: CRIU 4.2: Proton 10.0: Debian 13.2: Servo 0.0.2: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardus...

Devuan 6.0: TidesDB 1.0: The ASIO protocol has been open sourced: Debian drops support for the armel and mips64el: Cozystack 0.37: LXQt 2.3.0: SLES 16: The ROSA Mobile 2.2: Firewalld 2.4.0: UDisks 2.11.0 with Redesigned ATA SMART Support: KDE’s memory usage has been reduced by 100 MB: IncusOS: Hyprland 0.52: OpenMW 0.50: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: F...

far2l 2.7.0: 86Box 5.2: Clonezilla Live 3.3.0: Fedora Linux 43: Exim mail server 4.99: OpenIndiana 2025.10: X.Org Server 21.1.20: Nginx 1.29.3: The Radeon SI driver has been switched to the ACO backend by default: Pgbalancer 1.0: Sculpt 25.10: Brushshe 2.3.0: SeaMonkey 2.53.22: Ubuntu 25.10 now has package variants optimized for the x86-64-v3 architecture: KDE now allows you to customize the visua...

Servo Browser Engine Release 0.0.1: The ntfsplus driver: SuperTuxKart 1.5: KDE Plasma 6.5: Valkey 9.0: OpenWrt 24.10.4: OpenBSD 7.8: MySQL 9.5.0: LosslessCut 3.66: uutils 0.3: Qutebrowser 3.6.0: Open 3D Engine 25.10: Ubuntu Unity needs help: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic CC BY 4.0

This month: How-To : GTK4 Programming in C, Trading Up To Linux and Latex Graphics : Inkscape Review : Ubuntu 25.10 & Pop!_OS beta My Opinion : Snaps Ubports Touch : OTA 10 Ubuntu Games - Shardlight plus: News, Command and Conquer, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

A cluda driver for Mesa: Free Firefox VPN: Systemd behavior in Debian: Tails 7.1: Linux Mint Debian Edition 7: Release of ravynOS 0.6: Zorin OS 18: Release of Mobian 13.0: Qmmp 2.3: Asterisk 23: MyLibrary 4.2.1: KDE report: Forgejo 13.0: Node.js 25.0.0: Xubuntu website hacked: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust https://soundcloud.com/ftdm...

TinyUSB 0.19: OpenSH 10.1: GIMP 3.0.6: Ladybird browser: Qualcomm aquires Arduino: nginx 1.29.2: T2 SDE 25.10: Wireshark 4.6.0: OpenZL compression system: Ubuntu 25.10: Ubuntu 25.10 and Flatpak: OpenSSH 10.2: Luanti 5.14.0: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic CC BY 4.0

Linux kernel 6.17 BSD Router Project 2.0: NixOS moderation team resigns: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0: Pidgin 3.0 alpha4: openSUSE Leap 16.0: OpenSSL 3.6.0: Radicle 1.5: New President of the Free Software Foundation Elected: Raspberry Pi OS ported to Debian 13: ZLUDA 5: The Open Printer project: Free software Foundation 40: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The D...

Fedora Forge: DuckDB 1.4.0: OBS Studio 32.0: OpenWrt 24.10.3: Pale Moon 339.0: Elementary OS 8.0.2: PostgreSQL 18: XLibre, support for Vulkan: Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Focal: COSMIC on Pop OS: KDE report for the week: KaOS 2025.09: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic CC BY 4.0

Want to get into FOSS, now’s your chance! Jonathan Riddell leaves KDE: AMD has discontinued AMDVLK: Release of fheroes2 1.1.11: Java SE 25 LTS and OpenJDK 25: GNOME 49, “Brescia”: StartWine-Launcher: Systemd 258: The creator of Blender steps down as head of the Blender Foundation: GNUnet 0.25: Vivaldi 7.6: Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Release: KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Release: Multikernel project: FLX1s sma...

This month: How-To : GTK4 Programming in C, Trading Up To Linux and Latex Graphics : Inkscape Review : CachyOS & Starc (Story Architect) Ubuntu Games - Caves of Qud plus: News, Command and Conquer, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

Alpha Testing Of FreeBSD 15: Release of SysVinit 3.15: Release of I2P 2.10.0 and i2pd 2.58: AlmaLinux, defaults to enable the CRB repository: Red Hat transfer to IBM: Warzone 2100 4.6.0: PeerTube 7.3: Term. Everything: Clear NDR 1.0: Dracut in Ubuntu 25.10: OpenFix from Selectel: Apache gets a new logo: Samba 4.23.0: Q4OS 6.1: Libadwaita 1.8: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonica...

Linux From Scratch 12.4 && Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.4: Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0: Release of miracle-wm 0.7: GDM brings back X11 support by default ahead of GNOME 49: openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Leap Micro support period extended to 2 years: Release of Linux Mint 22.2: Microsoft Opens BASIC Interpreter Code for M6502 CPU’s: LKRG 1.0.0 Released: GIMP 3.1.4: New versions of Debian 13....

The Linux kernel turns 34: Ubuntu uses sudo-rs by default: QEMU 10.1.0: Cozystack 0.35: RPM 6.0 beta 2: Agama 17: MODICIA 6.12.41: FreedomBox: GTK 4.20: SpamAssassin 4.0.2: GNOME Foundation CEO Steps Down: IceWM 3.9.0: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic CC BY 4.0

Zulip 11: Release of Ventoy 1.1.07: Git 2.51: Luanti 5.13.0: Solaris 11.4 SRU84: Thunderbird Mail Client 142: LibreOffice 25.8: Zed gets $42 million, also Zedless fork: Apache NetBeans 27: G’MIC 3.6: MiniOS 5: Whomade: First release of the Nitro init system: KDE now has a setup wizard: PowerDNS 5.0: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardus...

This month: How-To : [NEW] GTK4 Programming in C, Trading Up To Linux and Latex Graphics : Inkscape Review : Ubuntu Cinnamon & Ubuntu MATE 25.04 Bonus Review : Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha 7 Ubuntu Games - Boxville 2 plus: News, Command and Conquer, The Daily Waddle, Q&A and more. Other Languages French PDF

Release of HandBrake 1.10.0: Redis 8.2 Released: Bcachefs to be removed from Linux kernel: CrossOver 25.1 Released: Whonix 17.4 is released: NVIDIA Proprietary Driver 580.76.05: New version of nginx 1.29.1: Release of KDE Gear 25.08: EasyOS 7.0 Released: Release of LibreELEC 12.2: Shotcut Video Editor Release 08/25: Credits Host: @bardictriad , @zaivala Bumper:  Canonical Theme Music: From The Dus...

The fourth experimental release of Orbitiny: Squid 7 stable release: openSUSE Leap 16 Release Candidate: Release of syncspirit 0.4.1: AlmaLinux Starts Providing NVIDIA Driver Packages: Proxmox Backup Server 4.0 available: Mesa 25.2 released: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released: MariaDB 12.0 is available: Shotstars 4.7 update: Release of the PocketHandyBox: Debian 13 Release: Release Debian GNU/Hurd 2025:...

Linux kernel 6.16: OpenPrinting Project Leader laid off: Vulkan 1.4 support added to PanVK driver: CDE desktop environment on OpenBSD: Vivo Open Sources BlueOS Kernel Written in Rust: Mozilla China Stops Providing Firefox Services in China: 4MLinux 49.0 distribution release KDE Linux Testing Edition: Release of the embedded DBMS libmdbx 0.13.7: Release of FEX 2508 emulator: Credits Host: @bardictr...

OpenAPV 0.2 is available: Google Introduces OSS Rebuild Project: MySQL 9.4.0 Release: The XLibre project integrates drivers into the mainline X server: Release of OPNsense 25.7: First release of Wayback: CudaText Update 1.226.0: The Maintenance Fee initiative: Tails 6.18 release: Rules for AI assistants used in the Linux kernel: sudo 1.9.17p2 update: Slackel 8.0 Release: Credits Host: @bardictriad...