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Marknote 1.6 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Adds Initial Support for Sub-Folders  9to5Linux

California Age Verification Bill Clears Assembly: Linux Spared, Websites Added to Age-Gating Regime  Tech Times

Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!..

NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” Officially Released with GNOME 50, systemd by Default  9to5Linux

Linux desktop hardware support is still broken, and that's why adoption keeps failing  How-To Geek

This tool lets two people type in the same Linux terminal at the same time  MakeUseOf

New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions  BleepingComputer

NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” Arrives with GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, and Linux 6.18  Linuxiac

NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager...

NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default  Phoronix

On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June...

AMD Expands Zen 6 Family Support In Linux, Indicating A Wider CPU Lineup  Wccftech

Stop memorizing two sets of commands—these 7 work on Windows and Linux  How-To Geek

The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel...

Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI...

AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

DistroSea lets users run 50+ Linux distros without installing  Notebookcheck

GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work...

KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7...

Bottles 64.0 Adds ntsync Support for Running Windows Apps on Linux  Linuxiac