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I replaced my Windows workflow with Linux Mint and it was easier than I imagined  How-To Geek

CVE-2026-0915 was published on Friday as a security issue with the GNU C Library "glibc" for code introduced 30 years ago. The latest Glibc Git code is now patched for this issue introduced in 1996...

CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996  Phoronix

KDE developers have been quite busy this week in preparing for the upcoming Plasma 6.6 release in February while also beginning to land features for what will be the Plasma 6.7 desktop...

The Shotcut 26.1 beta was released overnight as the newest version of this Qt6-based, cross-platform video editing solution. Standing out the most with this new development release are some new GPU-accelerated hardware decode options for aiming to help speed-up this free software video editor...

Adobe Photoshop can now install on Linux after a Redditor discovers a Wine fix  VideoCardz.com

As part of the GNOME Foundation funded Digital Wellbeing project, the GNOME Shell for GNOME 50 has merged options to prevent unlocking the desktop session past their bed time. The intent here is on rounding out GNOME's parental controls functionality...

Linux closes the professional gap as Adobe Creative Cloud installer finally runs on Wine  Neowin

My favorite Linux desktop environment is getting microphone controls Windows wishes it had  XDA

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The Linux Foundation opens scholarship program -- will you apply?  BetaNews

Valve launches Steam for Linux and announces a celebration sale  BetaNews

Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 'Betsy' is here -- will you download MATE or Cinnamon?  BetaNews

Want to learn Android programming? The Linux Foundation can help  BetaNews

Steam for Linux beta goes public for Ubuntu users  BetaNews

HP is Putin Ubuntu Linux on Russian computers  BetaNews

Netrunner Core 16.09 'Avalon' Debian-based KDE Linux distro now available for download  BetaNews

Linux Foundation joins Microsoft in opposing software defect warranties  BetaNews

A patch for the open-source exFAT file-system driver for Linux can boost the sequential read performance by about 10% in preliminary tests...

Detecting forged browser fingerprints for bot detection, lessons from LinkedIn  Security Boulevard