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For those that typically wait for the first point release before moving to a new software version, KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is out today with a few dozen fixes for the week since the Plasma 6.3 debut...

Who needs Windows 11? FreeXP is a modern version of Microsoft’s greatest OS, powered by Debian Linux  BetaNews

Get Windows on Linux in 10 Minutes With These 2 Commands  How-To Geek

OCCT for stress-testing comes to Linux and Steam Deck, with a Steam release planned  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking at including more Intel graphics driver packages as part of the hardware enablement "HWE" stacks shipped as part of Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) point releases. This would provide more comprehensive coverage of newer Intel driver components with future Ubuntu LTS point releases to benefit both the integrated and discrete graphics...

Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases May Offer Additional Intel Graphics Driver Updates  Phoronix

Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers The Gift Of Linux  Hackaday

One of the AMD software projects we are very bullish on for the future is openSIL for opening up more of the CPU silicon initialization code for what will eventually replace AGESA across all client and server processors that is aiming for production readiness with Zen 6. In turn, AMD openSIL should allow easier/better Coreboot support. One of the development milestone release targets did slip but they remain working on preparing AMD openSIL releases for Phoenix client and Turin server hardware...

There is an openSUSE project called Reproducible-openSUSE "RBOS" working on a proof-of-concept for constructing openSUSE in a bit-identical manner as part of the broad Reproducible Builds effort to be able to reproduce builds bit-for-bit against what is being compiled by the distribution vendor or other software distribution. The openSUSE RBOS has achieved 100% bit-identical packages as a major milestone...

More than seven years in the making, merged yesterday for PostgreSQL is a self-join elimination "SJE" feature as a performance optimization for some queries...

Nitrux Linux Brings CachyOS' Kernel Builder to Debian  It's FOSS News

How to set up 2FA for Linux desktop logins for added security  ZDNet

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 46: Bursting Bubbles  GamingOnLinux

Bluestar Linux is a gorgeous MacOS-like take on KDE Plasma that's easy to use  ZDNet

VyOS Networks Joins the Linux Foundation and the Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project  PR Newswire

OIN Surpasses 4,000 Community Members, Continues to Expand its Patent Protection of Open Source  The Manila Times

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High-schooler creates LinuxPDF: Running Linux on a RISC-V emulator inside a PDF file  Notebookcheck.net

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.13 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting this now-official protocol...