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The Linux Mint project today published their May 2026 status report to outline recent work done to this Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux platform and much of their focus in recent weeks on enhancements to their Cinnamon desktop environment...

Linux Mint Making Improvements To Its File Manager, Theme & Dialogs  Phoronix

With Intel having been one of the most dominant open-source contributors for years across the software ecosystem, months after they began sunsetting various software projects no longer aligned with today's Intel, they continue formally sunsetting/archiving different open-source projects...

Intel's Latest Round Of Open-Source Projects Ended: OBS Studio Plugin, CVE Binary Tool & More  Phoronix

This super-minimalist GNOME theme is changing how I use Linux  How-To Geek

I joyfully reunited with my first Linux distro at the Virtual OS Museum  ZDNET

Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, Fragnesia: The start of a worrisome Linux security trend  The Register

For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn't happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week...

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for next month's Plasma 6.7 stable desktop release due out in mid-June while also beginning more feature work toward Plasma 6.8...

More ASUS & HP Laptops See Platform Driver Support For Linux 7.1-rc5  Phoronix

This week's x86 platform driver fixes include not only a handful of bug fixes but also enabling some additional laptops within existing drivers for HP and ASUS devices...

Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it's being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project...

Supply Chain Attack Flags 700+ GitHub Repos With Hidden Linux Payload  Crypto Adventure

The Team Behind The Flipper One Needs Your Help  Hackaday

KDE Plasma 6.7 will make managing your clipboard a lot less annoying  XDA

In a Weird Case, German Deutsche Bahn's Website Was Locking Out Linux Users  It's FOSS

Another major Linux security flaw revealed — nine-year old issue could spell disaster for users  TechRadar

In addition to the recent influx of Linux security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD has also begun receiving security reports via AI/LLM-driven discovery tools. FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 is out today ahead of the planned official release in June and it brings a handful of security fixes out of this new AI-driven security research space...

GNOME Commander, the orthodox file manager for the GNOME desktop that was inspired by Norton Commander, has been rewritten in the Rust programming language and also now using the GTK4 toolkit...

Linux 7.1 Merges AMD Dynamic EPP Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake Scaling Fix  Phoronix