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A new version of Mir has been released, which in recent years has been serving as a Wayland compositor and used for various niche use-cases like smart exercise mirrors and other IoT and kiosk-type deployments...

Mir 2.11 Released With A Fix Around XWayland Use  Phoronix

The latest Start menu change in Windows 11 shows Microsoft is ...  BetaNews

New Linux Malware Downloader for Compromised Servers Spotted ...  Slashdot

OBS Studio 29.0 Released with Media Key Support on Linux, New Filters  9to5Linux

OBS Studio 29.0 is out this weekend as the latest major feature release to this very popular, cross-platform software for screencasting and screen recording purposes...

Ventoy 1.0.87 Brings Support for Lenovo Product Recovery and Dell PER ISOs  9to5Linux

How to Enable Snap Support in Linux Mint  MUO - MakeUseOf

While Windows 7 has a fighting chance, it is game over for Windows 8.1  Ghacks

The Linux 4.9 kernel was released back in 2016 and Greg Kroah-Hartman today issued the final point release for that kernel series with the Long Term Support (LTS) period now expired...

Linux 4.9.337 Released To End Out The 2016 LTS Series  Phoronix

Following GCC Rust being merged and the Modula-2 front-end, a developer hopes to restore the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Java front-end, GCJ...

A Developer Hopes To Restore GCC's Java Front-End  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 4.9 Reaches End of Life After 6 Years of Support  9to5Linux

For years Intel has been developing HAXM as a hardware-accelerated execution manager with a focus on using it for the Android Emulator and QEMU in conjunction with Intel VT enabled processors. HAXM works not only on Linux but Windows, macOS, and some BSDs. Unfortunately, Intel has decided to discontinue development of HAXM. Oh yeah, they also note there are security issues with the code so it's best to just stop using it...

Proton Experimental updated and Proton Next (7.0-6) out for Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Wine 8.0-rc3 is now available as the latest test release for this software to enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux and macOS...

Wine 8.0-rc3 Released With 28 Known Bug Fixes  Phoronix

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of notoriety for being with Valve's Linux team and leading the work on VKD3D-Proton has been experimenting with the Vulkan Video API initially for his personal Vulkan renderer, Granite...

KDE developers had a busy first week of the new year as they work toward the big Plasma 5.27 release...