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Releasing at the end of February is the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop where the Wayland session is the default. Plasma 6.0 will be joined by KDE Frameworks 6.0 and the Qt6-ported KDE Gear apps too. Out today for closing out January is the second release candidate of these packages...

LibreOffice 24.2 is now available as the latest major update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite to compete with the likes of Microsoft Office...

ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.0 Improves Collaboration and Adds New UI for Plugins  It's FOSS News

LibreOffice 24.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Merged overnight for Linux 6.8 is enhancing the EROFS read-only open-source file-system to perform better in low-memory scenarios. Not just better, but significantly better performance...

EndeavourOS Galileo Neo released: New version of the rolling Linux distribution based on Arch  Notebookcheck.net

The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for improved thermal/power/performance behavior under Linux works for Zen 2 and newer systems where the platform exposes ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Controls (CPPC) support. There's been a caveat though of the "amd_pstate" driver having issues for the Zen2-based Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series. With a newly-published set of patches, that issue should be resolved...

AMD P-State Linux Driver Gets Fixed Up For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs  Phoronix

The newest feature tacked onto the Godot 4.3 open-source game engine is featuring native support for Wayland on Linux...

Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support  Phoronix

Critical Flaws Found in GNU C Library, Major Linux Distros at Risk  HackRead

Age of Empires IV gets a fix for Steam Deck / Linux online play desyncs  GamingOnLinux

Qualys discovers glibc flaw that could enable attackers to gain full root access  GamingOnLinux

What are the most deadly Linux commands?  TechHQ

How to Record Screen with OBS on Windows, Mac, and Linux  Beebom

New Glibc Library Flaw Grants Root Access to Major Linux Distros  Cyber Kendra

How to Install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu & Linux Mint  OMG! Ubuntu!

5 Best App Launchers for Ubuntu & Linux Mint  OMG! Ubuntu!

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Linux shell scripting is the art of writing small programs (scripts) to automate tasks in the command-line interface, which involves using commands, variables, loops, and

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Crunchbang++ versus Bunsen Labs: the pair turn it up to 12  The Register