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Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface / Wayland shell project for mobile Linux environments. Phosh has been making steady progress and has more features out on the horizon...

Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port  Phoronix

Following the Budgie 10.10 release from earlier this month, Budgie 10.10.1 is now here for closing out January...

The Architect of Modern Linux Walks Away: Lennart Poettering's Departure from Microsoft Signals Shift in Open Source Development  WebProNews

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra might get full Linux terminal support - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com

Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD...

Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options  Phoronix

I found the ultimate "No Sudo" toolbox for Linux, and it’s a game-changer  How-To Geek

Podcast #854 - AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Review, DDR4 and Storage Prices, GOG Linux Focus, Windows 11 Awfulness and MORE  PC Perspective

Linux Kernel Community Approves Leadership Contingency Plan For Future Stability  Technetbook

NexPhone runs on Android, Linux and Windows 11 at once  hi-Tech.ua

Calibre's big update, the new Raspberry Pi OS alternative, and more Proton games: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

Nvidia launches official GeForce Now client for Linux in beta  TechSpot

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

Another great albeit overdue improvement for GNOME 50 has landed: Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" functionality for modern displays is now promoted and no longer treated as an experimental feature...

3 Bash error-handling patterns I use in every script  How-To Geek

KDE Plasma developers remain quite busy preparing for the Plasma 6.6 desktop release coming up in a little more than two weeks while at the same time continuing to land early features for the Plasma 6.7 release coming later in the year...

For those interested in the Dolby Digital Plus "Enhanced AC-3" audio compression format for open-source software, the last of the patents for this widely-used format by streaming services and more appears to have expired...

GNOME developers had a busy week in preparing for the GNOME 50 beta release, many GNOME developers attending FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, and other happenings...

Linux Lite 7.8 Is Out Based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Ports Many Apps to GTK4  9to5Linux