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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

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NVIDIA 580 Linux driver will be the last to support Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, X11 versions older than v1.17 will also be deprecated:
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-L

Bash 5.3 released with a new form of command substitution that executes the command within the current shell execution context, GLOBSORT variable can be used to determine how the shell will sort results of pathname completion, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/GNU-Bash-5.3

DXVK 2.7 released with Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications running atop the Vulkan API, other changes:
phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.7-Rel

Alpine Linux developer Ariadne Conill announced Wayback, a new X11 compatibility layer on Wayland, utilizing a rootful XWayland server:
phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 laptop available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX and AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processors:
9to5linux.com/tuxedo-stellaris

Linux reaches 5% desktop marketshare in the US:
ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-

(FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comNVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Fedora made proposal to drop UEFI boot support of x86-64 systems running on MBR-partitioned disks:
news.itsfoss.com/fedora-uefi-m

SUSE's Agama installer switches from X.Org to Wayland for installation GUI:
phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Agama-1

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed monthly update brings KDE Plasma 6.4, other package updates, security patches:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

Arch ISO with Linux kernel 6.15 and Archinstall 3.0.8 is available:
9to5linux.com/first-arch-linux

Ubuntu 25.10 will raise RISC-V profile requirements:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu

Critical Sudo vulnerabilities found, exploited using --chroot (-R) and --host (-h) options:
ostechnix.com/sudo-vulnerabili

GNOME 49 will default to the Papers document viewer:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Papers

GNOME 49 Alpha 1 released with showing the workspace switcher on-screen display across all monitors, do-not-disturb quick setting, dedicated accessibility menu on the login screen, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-

KDE improves KClock by adding picture-in-picture support on Wayland:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Clock-Wa

KDE Plasma 6.4.2 released with various bug fixes and improvements:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-2

KDE Gear 25.04.3 released as the last update in the KDE Gear 25.04 series, with fixes for Dolphin, KClock, Gwenview, Itinerary etc.:
9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-04-3

Debian installer Trixie RC2 released with improved installation media handling, better Secure Boot support, Btrfs system rescue, improved bootloader reliability, etc.:
ostechnix.com/debian-installer

Debian aiming to attract more contributors, looks for OpenAI fund for the AI usage of contributors:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-More-

New Gentoo images available with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.3:
phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux

AerynOS tooling is rewritten in Rust instead of D (not C lol):
phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-Mid-

(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

It's FOSS News · Another Radical Move as Fedora Now Wants to Drop UEFI Boot Support on MBRUEFI boot support for MBR could be removed in Fedora 43.
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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Billal Dellal

Thinking of switching to Linux...
I've read that it's more flexible in terms of "modifying" open source softwares (mainly photography) to have my own versions and simply has more freedom. Since I discovered these softwares I never looked back but I'm a Windows user my whole life.
What's a beginner friendly version of Linux you advise me to give it a go ?
#linux #linuxdesktop #linuxhelp #opensource

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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Fedora proposal was made to discontinue 32-bit support in a two-step process, starting from 44, but it was withdrawn:
ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i6

Fedora dropping 32-bit support would put Bazzite's future development at risk, due to breakages of essential Steam features:
news.itsfoss.com/fedora-could-

Fedora proposal was made to replace upstream X.Org server with XLibre, but the proposal was withdrawn:
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-XL
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-XLibr

Hyprland plans to launch €5/month premium tier:
news.itsfoss.com/hyprland-prem

Kubuntu 25.10 won't include Xorg session by default:
news.itsfoss.com/kubuntu-25-10

Qt 6.10 will offer session-management-v1 protocol support for Wayland session restore/management, Plasma 6.5 will include clipboard sync support for the built-in RDP server, ability to copy QR code for clipboard items, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Session-

KDE Plasma 6.4.1 released with an effect potentially triggering seizure disabled, text contrast and readability improvements, Discover improvements, bug fixes:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kde-pl

KDE Plasma to get improved initial setup tool:
news.itsfoss.com/kde-new-initi

postmarketOS 25.06 released with Alpine Linux 3.22 base, GNOME Mobile 48, Plasma Mobile 6.3.5, Phosh 0.47.0, and Sxmo 1.17.1, support for more devices, Systemd support, mobile-config-thunderbird:
9to5linux.com/postmarketos-25-

PipeWire 1.4.6 released with option to disable RAOP, improved ALSA plugin, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-6-a

Wine 10.11 released with preparations for NTSYNC support to improve gaming performance, more support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL, bug fixes for several games:
phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.11-R

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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Aaron In Minnesota

Recently moved an old laptop from Pop_OS to Fedora 42, and it is a surprising difference. Battery life especially, but lots of other little QoL type things. Pop_OS wasn't really a a problem, per se, and I am certainly looking forward to when their new Cosmic DE is ready for prime time! But, the latest Fedora and Gnome are really well done - the level of "just works" is seriously impressive.

#linuxdesktop
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George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦♥🇵🇸♥🏳️‍🌈♥🏳️‍⚧️

Testing out #Tuba as a #Fediverse client on #LinuxMint.

So far so good.

It used #OAuth to authenticate to #Sharkey. That's a plus.

It correctly sees that my posts have a 5000 character limit. That's nice.

But it's missing certain things like #Markdown/ #Misskey-Markdown preview (oh, and it can't handle #tags with a hyphen in them I see).

And I can't seem to figure out how to get it to automatically expand any CWs and show me sensitive media. Ok, this sucks. I'm an adult and very little offends me. Treat me like an adult, will you?

Any way...

Not bad.

So why even look at Tuba in the first place?

Because #Chromium is causing my #LinuxDesktop to freeze and stutter, and I've traced it back to Chromium. Uninstalled Chromium, everything is fine. Reinstalled Chromium, no bueno.

And it's not like I have that many extensions installed! Bitwarden, Linkwarden, Floccus, DarkReader, and DuckDuckGo. That's it!

Anyways...

1033 characters for this post. Not bad. The fact Mastodon has a 500 character default is stupid.

#misskeymarkdown
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rtdsx :rainbow_flag:

So we all have used Windows, right. I have a Digital license for both that are tied to my account. But we all have paid for it and I'm sick of the choices that Microsoft has made. Microsoft: "Yeah let's bake in Ads and USELESS AI in the product our users pay for"

yeah I won't be using that. I still love Windows deep down, but that's Windows 10. Too bad it's not getting supported unless you pay for ESU. I'm gonna use Linux on PCs in the future.

In my opinion: Fuck Microsoft and Win11.

#linux #linuxdesktop #microsoft #enshittification #windows10 #windows11 #linuxtips #endof10

might edit this in the future

Boost!

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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Ubuntu 24.10 will reach EOL on July 10, upgrading to 25.04 is recommended:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu

Ubuntu 25.10 (shipping GNOME 49) will remove GNOME X11 session:
9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-que

Linux Mint 20 reached EOL, upgrading to 22 is recommended:
news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20

Linux Mint 22.2 adds out-of-the-box fingerprint authentication support with Fingwit app:
9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-2-

Nitrux drops the Plasma-based NX desktop for Hyprland, due to the discontinuation of Plasma LTS released:
9to5linux.com/nitrux-linux-dro
(It's a bit weird choice that they ditched a full DE for a standalone compositor, which is tiling in fact, and requires editing some config files manually, not sure if DE users want that.)

Kali Linux 2025.2 released with revamped Kali Menu, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 8.3, 13 new tools (including Azurehound, binwalk3, bloodhound-ce-python etc.):
9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-

GNOME 49 Alpha 0 available with preparations for disabling X11 by default:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alp

Sway 1.11 released with explicit sync support, support for the ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 protocols for improved screen capture, support for the alpha-modifier-v1 protocol for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface, etc.:
9to5linux.com/sway-1-11-tiling

(More Linux and FOSS news in comments)

OMG! Ubuntu · Ubuntu 24.10 Support Ends July 10thUbuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole reaches end of life July 10, 2025. All users will need to upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin to continue receiving security updates.
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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Miro Hrončok :fedora: :python:

Looking at the laptop screen at night with no surrounding ambient light is uncomfortable.

I struggled with the 2 low settings of brightness: a blank display (0%) or lasers into my eyes (10%).

`brightnessctl set 1%` is good.

Now I've figured out that #Xfce can change the number of steps (from the default 10). Moreover, it supports exponential steps (more natural for the human eye).

With 27 exponential steps, the first 10 options are "almost 0%". Perfection!

xfce4-power-manager-settings window. The important setting is called Brightness step count. My value is 27, and the Exponential checkbox is checked.
#Linux#LinuxDesktop#Fedora
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