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Fedora Linux 43 Officially Released, Now Available for Download

Highlights of Fedora Linux 43 include the latest and greatest Linux 6.17 kernel series, the latest and greatest GNOME 49 desktop environment series for the Fedora Workstation edition, which is now Wayland-only, as well as the KDE Plasma 6.4.5 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

KDE Plasma 6.5.1 Is Out to Fix Compatibility Issues with Older AMD GPUs

Even if it comes a week after the release of KDE Plasma 6.5, a major update that just arrived in the stable software repositories of popular rolling-release distros like Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed, the KDE Plasma 6.5.1 update is packed with many improvements and bug fixes, especially for a regression that broke the appearance of mouse pointers on older AMD GPUs.

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MX Linux 25 Release Candidate Arrives with Various Improvements and Changes

Still shipping with the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series on the standard editions and a Liquorix-flavored Linux 6.15 kernel on the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) editions, the Release Candidate of MX Linux 25 introduces systemd-cryptsetup on the systemd-based ISOs to fix an issue with encrypted /home partitions.

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New Release: Tor Browser 15.0

The ongoing development of Tor Browser is made possible thanks to the support of our community. If Tor Browser is important to you, now is a great time to support our mission to FREE THE INTERNET, as all donations will be matched by Power Up Privacy through December 31, 2025.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Only About 1 in 8 Russian Windows Users is Using Vista 11
    it looks like over the past 12 months Vista 11 hardly grew and it remains very low at around 12% of Windows usage in Russia
  2. "I Hated Working at IBM. They Were the Most Unfriendly People."
    Don't forget what Watson the son did to a poor woman on a plane
  3. Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Taking the New Pension Scheme (NPS) to an International Tribunal (ILOAT)
    SUEPO wants more EPO staff to participate in collective action

    New

  4. Links 28/06/2024: Kangaroo Courts and Patents Spam, EFF Still Fighting for CPC's TikTok (a Digital Weapon)
    Links for the day
  5. Links 28/06/2024: Overton window and Polarization
    Links for the day
  6. [Meme] In 50 Years...
    Microsoft's Vista 11 will take 50 years to be fully adopted
  7. Links 28/06/2024: More Attacks on the Press, More Censorship in Russia
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Links 28/06/2024: Christmas Prematurely, Self-hosting
    Links for the day
  9. IBM: So Long, Suckers. Your Free OS is Now Proprietary. Pay IBM or Else.
    almost exactly a year after turning RHEL into proprietary software
  10. Vista 11 is Doomed and Despite Lack of Adoption Microsoft Already Speaks of Vapourware ("12")
    "Microsoft has pulled a Windows 11 update after users reported boot loops and startup failures."
  11. ChromeOS Reaches Highest Share in Years at the World's Most Populous Nation, Windows Now at All-Time Low of 13%
    We're talking about India today
  12. [Video] "It Is Incredible That Julian Assange Survives"
    There was a positive and mutual relationship between Wikileaks and Dr Jill Stein
  13. Never Assume That Because the Law Exists the Powerful Will Follow the Law
    Who's going to hold them accountable now?
  14. Nearly a Month Has Passed and Nobody at the Debian Project Even Attempted to Explain What Seems Like Back-dooring of Debian (and Hundreds of Distros That Are Debian-Derived)
    I can cynically guess that only matters when a user with a Chinese name does it
  15. [Video] Julian Assange Explains Wikileaks' Logistics
    predating indefinite detention
  16. IBM Was Never the "Good Guy", Just a Self-Serving and Opportunistic Money- and Power-Hungry Monopolist, Living Off of Taxpayers' Money (Government Contracts)
    The Nazi Party of Germany was its second-biggest client at one point and now it's looking to profit from the work of slaves
  17. State of the News (and Depletion of Journalism Online, Not Just Offline)
    Newspapers are not coming back and the Web is not coming back either
  18. GNU/Linux Consolidates in North America
    Android rising a lot this year, too
  19. [Meme] More Monopolies Granted While Patent Examiners Die (Overworking for Less Compensation)
    Work more; Get less
  20. Stella Assange and the Legal Team Speak to the Media a Day After WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrives in Australia
    Published yesterday by a number of mainstream publishers
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 27, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, June 27, 2024
  23. RIP Daniel Bristot de Oliveira, Red Hat death
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    1870 /n/2024/06/24/Torvalds_Number_Two_Quit_Linux_a_Decade_Ago_and_Has_Since_Then_.shtml
    1254 /n/2024/06/06/Edward_Brocklesby_ejb_Debian_Hacking_expulsion_cover_up_in_prox.shtml
    889 /n/2024/06/25/Sheriff_of_Cork_Debian_Edward_Brocklesby_or_Brockelsby_Street_c.shtml
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