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• 68k.news — Headlines From the Future
• Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
• Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
• AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th.
• Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers.
• An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
• JB Telegram Group
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Lutris — Open Gaming Platform
• [Mathieu's Blog] Not on the same page — The disconnect I feel between what I want to deliver in what I build and what the users asks for is now too big to ignore. In some way, I already knew it would be the case before I even started Lutris. I knew that what I was trying to achieve wasn’t in line with how Linux users usually behave…
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Plus webOS returns, some fundamental Linux plumbing upgrades, and Private Internet Access goes Open Source.

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• LG Announces webOS Open-Source Edition — LG in cooperation with South Korea's NIPA government agency are working on making webOS suitable as a more open platform with open connectivity. They are still looking to commercialize it as an open-source platform, LG announced this morning.
• GNOME 3.28 Release Notes — In total, the release incorporates 25832 changes, made by approximately 838 contributors.
• Bolt Will Tackle Thunderbolt 3 Security on Linux — “[Bolt] provides a D-Bus API to list devices, enroll them (authorize and store them in the local database) and forget them again (remove previously enrolled devices). It also emits signals if new devices are connected (or removed). During enrollment devices can be set to be automatically authorized as soon as they are connected.”
• GStreamer: news — The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
• Firefox 59 released, these are the key changes — The built-in Firefox screenshot tool lets you copy an image to the clipboard, ready for you to paste elsehwhere.
• Off-Main-Thread Painting – Mozilla Gfx Team Blog — I’m excited to announce Off-Main-Thread painting, our new Firefox graphics performance effort!
• Off-Main-Thread Painting - For Linux — set “layers.omtp.enabled” to true.
• Private Internet Access goes Open Source — As long-time supporters of the Free and Open Source Software community, we have started the process of open sourcing our software, and over the next six months we will be releasing the source code for all our client-side applications, as well as libraries and extensions.
• OpenSnitch — OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall.
• Spotifyd — An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon. Spotifyd streams music just like the official client, but is more lightweight and supports more platforms. Spotifyd also supports the Spotify Connect protocol which makes it show up as a device that can be controlled from the official clients.
• Ilan Rabinovitch — VP, Product & Technical Community at @datadoghq, recovering SysAdmin, SCALE Conference Chair, and other FL/OSS fun.