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KDE developers announced they are going "all-in on a Wayland future" and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away...

Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 — here’s where 780,000 users went  Windows Central

A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise...

The Linux 6.18 kernel is anticipated for release this coming Sunday while this week a last-minute crisis was averted following reports of a kernel crash from recent ACPI code changes...

Urgent ACPI Revert For Linux 6.18 To Deal With Some Hardware Crashing  Phoronix

This keyboard-driven launcher for Linux replaced my taskbar entirely  XDA

Collabora Launches Desktop Office Suite for Linux  It's FOSS

Rocky Linux 10.1 Arrives with Soft Reboots, XFS Enhancements, and More  9to5Linux

LibreOffice-based Collabora Office gets a reboot on Linux, Windows, and Mac  How-To Geek

NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser...

Debian vs. Ubuntu: How to pick the right Linux for your workflow  PCWorld

Sean Christopherson of Google sent out the pull requests to the KVM tree of the various x86_64-related areas of virtualization he oversees. With these updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window there is a significant overhaul of Intel's Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code to address various outstanding problems...

Linux 6.19 Overhauling The Intel TDX Locking Code For KVM  Phoronix

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alternative to RHEL 10.1...

Open Source Never Dies: 11 of My Favorite Linux Apps That Refused to Stay Dead  It's FOSS

Rocky Linux 10.1 Released As Community Alternative To RHEL 10.1  Phoronix

This Linux-style firewall is exactly what Windows needed — and it’s free  MakeUseOf

Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain  theregister.com

Affinity for Linux? Canva’s next big move could reshape the desktop software market  TechCentral

FreeBSD 15.0-RC3 shipped just a few days ago as what was expected to be the final release candidate before FreeBSD 15.0 stable is officially unveiled next week. But squeezing out today is FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 to address last minute issues...