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Wayland's Weston compositor has provided a weston-info utility to display information on supported Wayland extensions and versioning along with other details of the Wayland compositor environment. That utility is now being spun out as wayland-info as a Wayland compositor-agnostic utility for displaying this information...

Debian-Based Neptune 6.5 Linux Distro Released with Improved Hardware Support, Latest Apps  Mobile Tech News

Debian LTS Team Will No Longer Support Debian 8 'Jessie' GNU/Linux  Fossbytes

The Linux desktop is a beautiful thing, but if you're tired of boring wallpaper, then you should try wallset, a command-line utility allowing you to set a video as your wallpaper. Wallset can also help you manage your wallpaper collection so you can conveniently make changes as often as you want.

Installation

First, you must have the following software installed on your system:

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Humanity depends upon the energy furnished by our environment. Without powerful energy sources, we would not be able to digitally communicate with people from anywhere and feel as if we're in the same room.

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direnv is a nifty open-source extension for your shell on a UNIX operating system such as Linux and macOS. It is compiled into a single static executable and supports shells such as bash, zsh,

Global Linux Operating System Market Demand 2020: IBM, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  NJ MMA News

Linux Computer Market | Global Industry Analysis By Trends, Size, Share, Company Overview, Growth And Forecast By 2026  Daily Research Advisor

Debian based Mobian Linux OS Brings Librem 5 Phosh Shell to Pinephone  CNX Software

Google joins Canonical to bring Flutter apps to Linux  Business Insider India

For those looking for an RGB lighting and fan speed controller system that works under Linux, the Corsair Commander PRO is slated to see support with the upcoming Linux 5.9 kernel cycle...

Corsair Commander Pro Driver On-Deck For Linux 5.9 Kernel  Phoronix

Mobian Project Wants to Bring Debian GNU/Linux to Mobile Devices  Mobile Tech News

Android 10 has the fastest update rate ever, hits 16% of users in 10 months  Ars Technica

Android’s AirDrop, Nearby Sharing, begins working in Chrome OS  9to5Google

On top of Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics bringing other media engine improvements and much better 3D graphics support, another exciting element of the next-generation Intel graphics is now confirmed: GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding!..

Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands  Phoronix

A Google engineer is looking to discuss at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference the possibility of allowing in-tree Rust language support...

Linux Developers May Discuss Allowing Rust Code Within The Kernel  Phoronix

Linux Developers May Discuss Allowing Rust Code Within The Kernel  Phoronix