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The Linux USB gadget kernel driver saw a patch published today for exposing of a device's landing page as part of the WebUSB specification. WebUSB as a reminder is the industry standard for providing a JavaScript API to securely access USB devices from web pages and is already supported by the likes of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge...

Linux USB Gadget Driver Being Extended For WebUSB  Phoronix

One of the early alternative spins of Ubuntu back in the day was Edubuntu as an education-focused flavor of Ubuntu shipping with various educational packages pre-installed and an optimized workflow for students. Edubuntu gradually faded away but in 2023 is looking to re-establish itself and become an official flavor under new leadership...

Edubuntu Looks To Re-Establish Itself In 2023  Phoronix

How to Install GNU Octave on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Valve revealed the most played games on Steam Deck for 2022  GamingOnLinux

The final free game during the GOG Winter Sale is Daymare: 1998  GamingOnLinux

The 5 Best Linux Distros of 2022  OMG! Ubuntu!

Beware of scam Steam Deck and Steam Account stores  GamingOnLinux

6 Reasons Why Many Linux Distros Don't Ship KDE by Default  MUO - MakeUseOf

Meet the Slimbook Kymera Ventus AMD Black Limited Edition Linux Gaming PC  9to5Linux

New Linux malware uses 30 plugin exploits to backdoor WordPress sites  BleepingComputer

Vanilla OS Stable Release Has Landed!  It's FOSS News

Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 23 Is Out with Xfce 4.18, Cinnamon 5.6, and LXQt 1.2  9to5Linux

While there still are a few more articles coming up on Phoronix over the next day before closing out 2022, for this year on Phoronix there were 191 Linux hardware reviews and featured articles along with 2,846 original news articles on Linux, open-source, and hardware topics. Here is a look back at what excited our Linux/open-source readers the most over the course of 2022...

AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux ...  Phoronix

For going along with the new keyboard driver and other upstreaming efforts around the PinePhone Pro, getting the display support mainlined has been the latest effort for enhancing this $399 Linux smartphone...

PinePhone Pro Display Support Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

It shouldn't be news to you that most of the corporate-backed developers working on the Linux desktop are no longer investing in new feature work around the X.Org Server and have shifted their efforts to a Wayland-focused environment moving forward. In looking at the Git statistics for the X.Org Server over the course of 2022 it shows how the development has pulled back dramatically and now at a two decade low for the commits and code changes...

Calculate Linux has now issued its v23 release as the project marks fifteen years of being a Gentoo Linux built distribution focused on suitable Linux deployments within organizations / corporate environments...