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WayVNC 0.5 was released on Saturday as a feature update to this VNC server for Wayland compositors leveraging the WLROOTS library...

Leah Rowe has announced the release of Libreboot 20220710, the downstream of Coreboot that takes a firm approach to ensure boot firmware freedom with avoiding proprietary blobs even when it means reduced hardware coverage/support. As such with avoiding the likes of the Intel FSP, the supported list of motherboards is quite limited...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting KDE changes this week, which includes building up of more work targeting Plasma 5.26 this autumn as well as KDE application enhancements and more...

Linux Statistics 2022 - Market Share, Usage Data and Facts  Enterprise Apps Today

How to reset Gnome in Linux such as Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy  Linux Shout

Debian 11.4 is out as the fourth stable release update to "Bullseye" of this popular community-based Linux distribution...

What Is GNOME in Linux?  How-To Geek

What Is GNOME in Linux?  How-To Geek

Linux is performing better than Windows 11 according to this benchmark test  Ghacks

Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 “Bullseye” Released with 79 Security Updates and 81 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Steam Deck’s Web Browser Desperately Needs An Update  Kotaku

In addition to the OpenChrome DRM/KMS driver hoping to be finally mainlined in 2022 for supporting aging VIA graphics hardware from the long-ago days of their x86 chipsets, separately there is a DRM/KMS kernel driver in the works for something even older... A Linux DRM graphics driver for the Atari Falcon from the early 90's...

Atari Open-Source Linux DRM Graphics Driver Being Worked On In 2022  Phoronix

Install Metasploit Framework on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout

How to upgrade LMDE 4 Debbie to LMDE 5 Elsie - Linux Shout  Linux Shout

Install Ansible on Ubuntu Server to Automate Linux Server Deployments  thenewstack.io

Latest testing finds Windows 11 losing performance lead over Ubuntu and Linux  Neowin

Broadcom's VMware buy got you worried? Give these 5 FOSS hypervisors a spin  The Register

Intel this week submitted to DRM-Next what it anticipates to be the last batch of "drm-intel-next" feature changes for the upcoming Linux 5.20 merge window...

KDE developers are looking at possibly making use of C++20 language features within the Plasma 5.26 desktop and the newer C++ usage could work its way to other KDE components with time too...