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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

openSUSE now has a new installer: https://yast.opensuse.org/blog/2024-05-17/agama-8

Can't wait to put our hands on it once they ship it in their next stable release. 😎

Analysis of GNOME Foundation’s public economy: concerns and thoughts
https://blogs.gnome.org/pabloyoyoista/2024/05/19/analysis-of-gnome-foundation-public-economic-concerns-and-thoughts/

NVIDIA driver version (beta) 555 for Linux is out, and it should feature a better support for Wayland-based compositors with closed-source NVIDIA drivers.
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/224751/en-us/

How to get VMware Workstation Pro for Free on Linux
https://fosspost.org/install-vmware-workstation-pro-for-free-linux

It turns out Winamp developers are not planning to make it open source in September, instead, they are just going to make the source code "available".

This means you would do free work for them without owning anything of the code. Meh. 😒
https://x.com/winamp/status/1793615140241240395