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Following last week's Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an assortment of different bug fixes...

Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for Git repositories. CGIT 1.3 is the first new release in six years and comes with a lot of changes...

CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years  Phoronix

US State Colorado Wants Operating Systems (Inlcuding Linux) to Tell Every App How Old You Are  It's FOSS

Tiny Core Linux Gains Traction For Ultra Small Installs  findarticles.com

LUKS Encryption Compromised on Linux ICS Devices via TPM Bus Sniffing Exploit  gbhackers.com

Mobileye Drive adopts Elektrobit safety-compliant Linux OS  Automotive World

Try this tiny Linux distro when nothing else will fit - here's why  ZDNET

7-Zip For Ubuntu: A Simple Download Guide  thedetroitbureau.com

The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1...

Nvidia is also hunting for Linux developers to help advance gaming on FOSS  XDA

Peacock TV On Linux: Your Streaming Guide  thedetroitbureau.com

Lilbits: Pebble smartwatches, Linux 7.0, and the uncertain future for Lenovo Legion Go graphics drivers  Liliputing

Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam...

TuxCare Expands Portfolio of Endless Lifecycle Support Services with Coverage for Alpine Linux  Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver  Phoronix

The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...

5 of the most lightweight operating systems, ranked by download size  MakeUseOf

I freed up 14GB on my SSD using this quick Linux clean up  MakeUseOf

The big new Linux release isn’t a big deal  PCWorld