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GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Will Fully Support Wayland

The Linux Mint devs have been working hard on making Cinnamon’s Wayland session as stable as possible, and it looks like Cinnamon 6.8 will finally remove the “experimental” status of the Wayland session and fully support Wayland. Here are some of the features they’ve implemented so far:

Proton 11 Officially Released with Support for More Games Running on Linux

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KDE Plasma 6.6.6 Released with Numerous Bug Fixes and Various Improvements

Coming two months after KDE Plasma 6.6.5, the KDE Plasma 6.6.6 release is a bugfix one that addresses numerous issues, including a clipboard-related issue that could make XWayland-using apps lag or freeze after locking the screen.

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Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today that they plan to rebase their TUXEDO OS distribution on Debian GNU/Linux, moving away from Ubuntu, but still shipping a custom KDE Plasma desktop environment.

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LILYGO has listed two compact development boards for wireless IoT applications: the T-Display C5, a small ESP32-C5-based board with a color LCD and dual-band Wi-Fi 6, and the T-Echo Card, a rugged LoRa-enabled device with GNSS, Bluetooth, NFC, solar charging, and an IP66-rated enclosure.

WINSYSTEMS SBC-477 PowerTier Series delivers Raptor Lake performance in a rugged SBC design

WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-477 PowerTier Series is a family of compact rugged single board computers for industrial and MIL/COTS applications, combining 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake processors with DDR5 memory, dual Ethernet, Mini PCIe expansion, TPM 2.0 security, and extended-temperature operation.

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The Organizations on the Front Lines of a Safer Internet Need Our Help

When telling the story of the Internet, people often place emphasis on notable entrepreneurs and tech companies and the economic value they create. But that’s just part of the story. An often-forgotten part is how much the Internet owes its design and success to the work of nonprofits, researchers, standards bodies, civil society groups, and public-interest institutions that believed the network should work for everyone.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Australia: Windows Fell to All-Time Low, Even Lower Than iOS
    There's a good reason why next week there will be so many Microsoft layoffs

    New

  2. The "News" You Saw About Canonical is Misleading, It Made Only 18 Million Dollars Last Year and Barely Paid Any Taxes
    Lies are the norm these days...
  3. Pushing Wayland Using Straw Man Arguments
    phoronix.com has long promoted the talking point of "Wayland people" (for at least a decade already)
  4. Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, WebProNews, and Google News Boosting Slopfarms as 'News'
    People who don't recognise the slopfarms and don't know which sites are fake would struggle to understand what's really going on
  5. Links 28/06/2025: Hardware/GPU Wars, GAFAM Throws Money (Borrowed Cash) at Hopeless Slop Pipe Dream
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 28/06/2025: Shellshock and Network UPS Tools
    Links for the day
  7. Links 28/06/2025: The Age of Integrity and FreeBSD Foundation Added John Baldwin as Board Member
    Links for the day
  8. Fedora 44
    IBM now does to Fedora what it did to RHEL
  9. Microsoft Already Shaved Off Costs Anywhere It Could. It Was Not Enough.
    Office and Windows aren't "selling" (licences) like they used to
  10. Scheduled Maintenance Next Week
    Our community is alive and well
  11. BetaNews: We're Publishing LLM Slop About LLM Slop
    Beta version of a slopfarm?
  12. 3-Month Updates on Our Complaint to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
    In short, the complaint remains open, updated, and is advancing
  13. IBM Red States Hat (Project 2025): Our "New Thing" Replaces This "Old Thing"
    The new replaces the old. That's how IBM frames it.
  14. Start X
    Just because something is old does not mean it is bad
  15. Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, Google News Slopfarms, and Linux Journal (LJ)
    Today we take a quick look at 3 slopfarms
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 27, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, June 27, 2025
  18. Links 28/06/2025: "CC Signals" Virtue-Signals to Slop Ponzi Schemes, North Korea Aims for Tourism
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