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• The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
• GNOME 48 Release Notes
• Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)
• The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters
• Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop
• Retro Game Corps on YouTube
• Pick: Ignition: Manage your startup apps and scripts on Freedesktop Linux distros — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
• Ignition on Flathub
• Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
• Record Apps on Flathub

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised. Let's find out if the world has moved on too far for 32-bit systems, or if they can still be saved from the landfill.
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• End of the 4.9 Kernel Series
• CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables
• Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements
• Wine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes - Including Wine Wayland Fixes
• Stadia Shuts Down Jan 28th
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• FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi
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• Ubuntu Gets Real
• Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability
• Plasma 5.27
• KDE Plasma 5.27 Released
• Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New
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• GNOME 44 Released
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• Plasma 6 Early Builds
• Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions
• Btrfs Improvments in 6.4
• Announcing Fedora Linux 38
• What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
• Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”
• Message to Red Hat associates today
• Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released
• The new Flathub Website
• Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look
• Ubuntu 23.04 Released
• Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
• Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap
• HDR hackfest wrap-up
• CVE-2023-28410: i915 graphics driver improperly restricts operations within the bounds of a memory buffer
• New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges
• bcachefs out for review
• Fedora Program Manager Laid Off
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• Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced
• Introducing Azure Linux
• CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust
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• XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch
• Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix
• Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6
• Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0
• Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
• Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
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• Debian 12 “bookworm” released
• Linux 6.4 Released
• Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5
• Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement
• Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes
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• Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
• Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
• A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
• Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code
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• Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open
• LXD Moves to Canonical
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• Fedora Asahi Remix
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• Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future
• Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
• Leap Replacement Discussion
• Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
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• “Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀
• Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
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• Ubuntu 23.10 Released
• Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
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• Element Going AGPL
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• Fedora Change: Retire Modularity
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• Pick: trippy — Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.