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A ten month old merge request to GNOME's Mutter for adding implicit grabbing to the Clutter code was finally merged last week...

HarfBuzz 7.0 is out as a new version of this open-source text shaping library used by software like GNOME, KDE, Chrome OS, Java, Chrome, LibreOffice, and others...

HarfBuzz 7.0 Text Shaping Engine Released  Phoronix

Watch YouTube videos on Linux with Haruna  AddictiveTips

Is Windows 11 Spyware? Microsoft Defends Sending User Data to ...  Slashdot

KDE Frameworks 5.103 Improves Support for Flatpak and Qt 6 Apps, Plasma Wayland  9to5Linux

By 2029, Linux Operating System Market Trend 2023 to Reflect a ...  Digital Journal

Teamlead Site Reliability Engineering - Testing / Python / Bash ...  IamExpat in Germany

System76 Debuts Updated AMD-Based Pangolin Linux Laptop  WebProNews

Lutris 0.5.13 Beta is out this weekend as the newest test release for this open-source game manager that makes it easier to install and play video games from multiple game stores, emulators, and integration with other services...

Lutris 0.5.13 Beta Released With Proton Support, Itch.io Integration  Phoronix

A Developer is Reimplementing GNU's Core Utilities in Rust - Slashdot  Slashdot

6 Ways elementary OS Improves Accessibility on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Several years ago the open-source "Hangover" project started as allowing Windows x86_64 and x86 programs to run on 64-bit ARM Linux by leveraging the upstream Wine software as well as QEMU. Hangover also saw work for allowing Windows programs to run on POWER9 Linux hardware and other architectures. The Hangover project has been on hiatus but is now back to being revived...

Hangover Project Restarted To Run Windows 32-bit/64-bit Apps On ...  Phoronix

The H.266 / Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was finalized back in 2020 and while the hardware acceleration is currently limited to a few SoCs with video decode, in the years ahead there will likely be plenty of content encoded in H.266/VVC. The Fraunhofer HHI group in Germany has been working to ensure capable open-source support around this video compression standard with their VVenC encoder and VVdeC decoder...

5 Of The Biggest Complaints And Regrets Steam Deck Owners ...  SlashGear

EndeavourOS Cassini Neo Released with Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS, Improved Installer  9to5Linux

There is already some AVX-512 optimizations for software contained within the FFmpeg multimedia library, but there is room for greater AVX-512 usage especially now with AMD supporting this Advanced Vector Extensions expansion and the latest Intel Xeon CPUs having little associated cost now with AVX-512 use...

New Steam Client Update Further Improves the Big Picture Mode, Fixes More Bugs  9to5Linux