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KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. Plasma 6.6 is self-described by KDE developers as "the best desktop in the known universe (according to us). Plasma 6.6 is all about making your life as easy as possible without sacrificing any of the flexibility."..

Linux Foundation Research Finds Open Source Is Key To Driving India's AI Market  PR Newswire

Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in Linux Terminal  It's FOSS

Rocket League devs promise not to break Linux support or ban modders when Easy Anti-Cheat gets added  PC Guide

KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

AsteroidOS 2.0 Launches: A Community-Driven Linux Revival for Smartwatches  Linux Journal

LockBit Ransomware Unleashes Devastating 5.0 Version Targeting Windows, Linux, and ESXi  Cyber Press

REMnux v8 brings AI integration to the Linux malware analysis toolkit  Help Net Security

Gentoo begins its exodus from GitHub as it settles into Codeberg  XDA

The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests...

Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot  Phoronix

At Bradesco, one of the largest financial institutions in Brazil and Latin America, the ability to scale is crucial. Automation plays a central role in this journey, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has become the foundation supporting thousands of jobs executed daily across mission-critical environments.As automation expanded across teams, systems, and domains, Bradesco reached a new stage of maturity. Execution at scale was already well established, delivering efficiency and speed. However, operating automation at this level within a highly regulated financial environment introduced a

The "works on my machine" problem has been a thorn in the side of IT since the dawn of distributed development workflows. As organizations accelerate their shift to cloud-native practices, a critical gap has emerged: The tools developers use on their local workstations often don't align with the enterprise security-centric, hardened Kubernetes environments in production. This inconsistency frequently leads to dependency errors, heightened risk of security vulnerabilities, and late-stage deployment surprises that drain productivity and increase technical debt.In response to these challenges, we

Linux 7.0 CXL Enables AMD Zen 5 Address Translation Feature  Phoronix

A long-in-development feature for AMD EPYC Zen 5 server platforms now merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel is ACPI PRMT-based address translation for the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem...

Lutris 0.5.20 Game Manager Adds Support for Importing Commodore 64 ROMs  9to5Linux

DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers for being able to render a QR code kernel error message or similar when a kernel panic occurs to provide a cleaner interface should your system run into serious problems. An idea has been raised now within the Fedora Linux camp to provide an improved experience around this feature akin to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" functionality...

Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux  Phoronix

For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lutris 0.5.20 is out today with new features that further enhance the integration with different emulators and compatibility layers...

Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option  Phoronix