KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements - Phoronix KDE Plasma 6.7 enjoyed a lot of recent feature development work thanks to a developer sprint in Graz, Austria

#KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements

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Free Software Foundation Says OnlyOffice Cannot Use AGPL to Restrict Forks The Free Software Foundation says OnlyOffice cannot use AGPLv3 to impose extra restrictions on forks, escalating the Euro-Office licensing dispute.

Free Software Foundation Says #OnlyOffice Cannot Use AGPL to Restrict Forks

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#FSF

FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For Linux - Phoronix Sent out today was an initial patch series for comment on introducing the FTRFS file-system

#FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For #Linux

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Linux 7.0 Released With New Hardware Support, Optimizations & Self-Healing XFS - Phoronix As expected the stable Linux 7.0 kernel was just released today in marking this next kernel release

#Linux 7.0 Released With New Hardware Support, Optimizations & Self-Healing XFS

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FreeBSD Opens Public Testing for Its Laptop Support Push FreeBSD has started public laptop testing as part of its larger effort to improve hardware support and become a stronger option for everyday desktop use.

#FreeBSD Opens Public Testing for Its Laptop Support Push

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#BSD

Privacy Messenger Session Is Staring Down a 90-Day Countdown to Obscurity With paid developers gone and only volunteers remaining, the app has until July 8 to secure funding or fade into irrelevance.

Privacy Messenger #Session Is Staring Down a 90-Day Countdown to Obscurity

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VMUFAT File-System Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Phoronix The newest Linux file-system driver proposed for the kernel is..

#VMUFAT File-System Driver Proposed For The #Linux Kernel

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#Dreamcast

Amazon Cuts Kindle Store Access for 2012 and Older Kindle Models Starting May 20 - gHacks Tech News Amazon is ending Kindle Store access for devices released in 2012 and earlier on May 20, affecting 11 Kindle e-reader and Fire tablet models.

#Amazon Cuts #Kindle Store Access for 2012 and Older Kindle Models Starting May 20

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Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware - Phoronix Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory

#Valve Developer Improves The #Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware
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Best Icon Themes for Ubuntu: 20 Top Picks for 2026 - Ubuntu Free Discover 20 of the best icon themes for Ubuntu including modern, circle, colorful, and Ubuntu-friendly icon packs that are still maintained.

Best Icon Themes for #Ubuntu #Linux: 20 Top Picks for 2026

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Microsoft pulls developer accounts of WireGuard and Veracrypt - Neowin VeraCrypt, a popular app for drive encryption, is now in update limbo as Microsoft suspended the developer account for no apparent reason.

#Microsoft pulls developer accounts of #WireGuard and #Veracrypt

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Flatpak 1.16.4 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings Important Security Fixes - 9to5Linux Flatpak 1.16.4 open-source Linux application sandboxing framework is now available for download with important security fixes.

#Flatpak 1.16.4 #Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings Important Security Fixes

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Glass UI Is Making a Comeback on Linux Thanks to KDE Contributors For those who never warmed up to Breeze, Oxygen and Air are shaping up to be compelling alternatives again.

Glass UI Is Making a Comeback on #Linux Thanks to #KDE Contributors

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Little Snitch for Linux: Monitor & Block App Network Connections Little Snitch is now on Linux. See which apps are making network connections, block unwanted ones and find out how chatty your system really is.

Little Snitch for #Linux: Monitor & Block App Network Connections

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GNU Nano 9.0 Command-Line Text Editor Improves Horizontal Scrolling GNU Nano 9.0 command-line text editor delivers smoother side scrolling, rebindable Meta arrow keys, improved macro handling, and more.

GNU Nano 9.0 Command-Line Text Editor Improves Horizontal Scrolling

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How to List All Logged-In Users in Your Linux System In this article, you will learn four ways to find all logged-in users on the remote machine or server, including the past one (with practical examples).

How to List All Logged-In Users in Your #Linux System

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Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast - Phoronix Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn't on my bingo card for 2026

#Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For #Sega #Dreamcast

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You can now enable Ubuntu Pro from the OS setup tool - OMG! Ubuntu Ubuntu 26.04 LTS makes it easier to enable Ubuntu Pro, Canonical's opt-in (but free for home users) subscription that extends security update to more

You can now enable #UbuntuPro from the OS setup tool

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#Ubuntu #Linux

Skyscraper: A Bluesky Terminal Client that Works on Linux Skyscraper is a free, open-source Bluesky terminal client written in Rust. Browse, post and reply without leaving the command line - here's how to run it on Ubuntu.

#Skyscraper: A #Bluesky Terminal Client that Works on #Linux

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How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

How #Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

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LinkedIn Uses Hidden JavaScript to Scan for Over 6,000 Chrome Extensions on Visitors' Browsers - gHacks Tech News LinkedIn's website runs a fingerprinting script that checks for over 6,000 browser extensions and collects device data.

#LinkedIn Uses Hidden JavaScript to Scan for Over 6,000 Chrome Extensions on Visitors' Browsers

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KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Is Coming on June 16th, Here’s What to Expect - 9to5Linux The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment is expected on June 16th, 2026, with many new features and improvements.

#KDE #Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Is Coming on June 16th, Here’s What to Expect

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Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements - OMG! Ubuntu Ubuntu 26.04 LTS raises its minimum RAM requirement to 6GB, the first increase since 2019. Systems with less memory still work, but the experience may suffer.

#Ubuntu #Linux quietly raises its minimum system requirements

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PrismML debuts 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud • The Register : Bonasi 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient

#PrismML debuts 1-bit #LLM in bid to free #AI from the cloud

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Debian Project Leader Addresses New Age Verification Laws Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille says Debian has made no decision on age verification compliance and is still awaiting legal analysis.

#Debian #Linux Project Leader Addresses New Age Verification Laws

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Even Microsoft know Copilot can't be trusted • The Register : Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong

Even #Microsoft knows #Copilot can't be trusted. Terms admit it is 'for entertainment only' and may get things wrong.

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FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year - Phoronix Developers working on the FreeBSD laptop initiative to make the FreeBSD operating system more suitable for running on modern laptop hardware have drafted their road-map of further action items they hope to accomplish in 2026.

#FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer #Linux Graphics Drivers This Year

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Coreboot 26.03 Open-Source Firmware Adds Full Support for Intel PantherLake SoCs - 9to5Linux Coreboot 26.03 open-source firmware is now available for download with full support for Intel PantherLake SoCs and other changes.

#Coreboot 26.03 Open-Source Firmware Adds Full Support for Intel PantherLake SoCs

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LibreOffice Drama: TDF Removes Collabora Developers in One Sweep TDF has used a bylaw Collabora publicly opposed to strip over 30 of its most active developers of their membership.

#LibreOffice Drama: #TDF Removes #Collabora Developers in One Sweep

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Proton Launches Meet, an End-to-End Encrypted Video Conferencing Service - gHacks Tech News Proton Meet offers E2EE video calls for up to 50 participants at no cost, with no Proton account required for meetings under one hour.

#Proton Launches #Meet, an End-to-End Encrypted Video Conferencing Service

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