KDE Neon developers talk about some of the issues they had with Plasma 6.0 and how they will handle it in the future:
https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/04/29/kde-neon-post-plasma-6-updates-review/

Phew! Ubuntu release week is always full of work! 🐧

Here is a set of articles we published for Ubuntu 24.04:
- Things to do after installation:
https://fosspost.org/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu

- How to get Firefox as a DEB instead of Snap:
https://fosspost.org/how-to-install-firefox-as-a-deb-package-on-ubuntu

- How to get Chromium as DEB instead of Snap:
https://fosspost.org/chromium-deb-package-ubuntu

- How to enable Ubuntu Pro for 12 years of updates on Ubuntu LTS:
https://fosspost.org/extend-ubuntu-updates-free-ubuntu-pro

Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement
https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/19-systemd-wants-to-expand-to-include-a-sudo-replacement

Neofetch, the famous terminal information tool, is no longer being maintained: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

Luckily, there are many community forks that you can use, such as fastfetch and screenFetch.

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For older CPUs, there is a little "trick" you can do to get some extra performance on your Linux system.

The trick may cost your computer security, but some crazy ones out there may take it 😎
https://fosspost.org/disable-cpu-mitigations-on-linux

Our recent news article about Systemd has been shared on both HN frontpage and Reddit, and this is how it looks from the other side. 😂📈

Luckily, and thanks to the open-source Flarum forum script, our server can easily handle it with zero downtime. 😎

Linux Mint goes more fork-y on GNOME and their apps
https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/20-linux-mint-goes-more-fork-y-on-gnome-and-their-apps

Proton 9.0 released for better Linux gaming with Steam
https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/21-proton-90-released-for-better-linux-gaming-with-steam

Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 From Open Source Developers
https://boehs.org/node/bountysource

OpenSSF and OpenJS Foundations Issue Alert for Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects
https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/

Red Hat announces Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI); a Red Hat based Linux distribution for building and developing open source AI models.

Currently it is in developer preview status, and you have to build the images by yourself + have a valid RHEL subscription.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-rhel-ai-guide-open-source-way-doing-ai

Zed editor is coming soon to Linux.
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-linux-when

Public German broadcasting services ARD and ZDF will open source part of their software libraries used in their operations.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/ARD-und-ZDF-wollen-ihren-Streaming-Code-als-Open-Source-anbieten-9709177.html

System76 talks about their monthly fixes for the new COSMIC desktop and how it is getting more polished: https://blog.system76.com/post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix

Will you try the new desktop when it comes out? 😄

Linux Kernel 6.9 has been released.
https://lwn.net/Articles/973397/

Manjaro Linux 24.0 has been released.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-24-0-wynsdey-released/161527

Firefox 126 has been released.

Be advised it has a new built-in telemetry feature.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/126.0/releasenotes/

Winamp, the legendary classical media player for Windows, plans to go open source on September 24:
https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1791121664689725683