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Debian 13.4 “Trixie” Released with 111 Bug Fixes and 67 Security Updates

Coming two months after Debian 13.3, the Debian 13.4 point release is here to provide the community with an updated installation media targeting those who want to deploy the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series on new hardware or those who had issues with the previous ISO releases.

KDE Frameworks 6.24 Improves Support for Plasma and Kirigami-Based Apps

The KDE Frameworks 6.24 release is here to workaround a Qt bug that caused extremely strange cache-related issues throughout Plasma and Kirigami-based apps, which would randomly break certain components in these applications.

Marknote 1.5 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Is Here with Source Mode, KRunner Plugin

Highlights of Marknote 1.5 include a highly requested Source Mode, allowing you to bypass the rich-text WYSIWYG interface entirely by turning Marknote into a dedicated source editing app, and support for internal wiki-style links for notes with cross-notebook lookup.

Valve Releases New Steam Client Stable Update to Address Various Bugs

Coming only a week after the previous Steam Client update, the new release fixes a Linux issue where the Steam Client would get stuck in a loading spinner after restarting it in Offline Mode, and fixes an intermittent error that occurred when opening the Big Picture Mode overlay.

Calibre 9.5 E-Book Manager Introduces a New Tool to Remove Unused Images

Coming two weeks after Calibre 9.4, the Calibre 9.5 release introduces a new tool in the Edit book component to remove unused images, a reset button to the reading stats panel in the E-book viewer, along with an option to display the pages from the paper book page list while also showing the last page number.

EndeavourOS Titan Released with Linux Kernel 6.19 and KDE Plasma 6.6

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.19 kernel series, EndeavourOS Titan comes with the latest KDE Plasma 6.6.2 desktop environment, on both the live environment and for offline installations, which is accompanied by the very latest KDE Frameworks 6.23 and KDE Gear 25.12.3 software suites.

Qt Creator 19 Open-Source IDE Released with Minimap for Text Editors, MCP Server

Coming more than four months after Qt Creator 18, the Qt Creator 19 release introduces a minimap for text editors to show a simplified overview of the document contents, easier configuration of remote devices, a basic MCP server, and support for showing configuration files for development containers in the project tree.

Fwupd 2.1.1 Linux Firmware Updater Released as a Massive Update

Fwupd 2.1.1 is a major release that introduces support for updating the firmware on Blestech touchpads, ELAN Haptic MCU devices, FocalTouch devices, Himax touchscreens, HP Engage One G2 Advanced Hubs, KATAR PRO Wireless Gaming Dongles, PixArt touchpads, and Novatek touchscreens.

Linux App Summit 2026 Will Take Place on May 16-17 in Berlin, Germany

Jointly organized by both the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V., Linux App Summit is an annual conference that brings together developers, designers, and contributors from the Linux desktop community, primarily from the GNOME and KDE projects.

LinuxGizmos.com

Forlinx Showcases i.MX95-Based FET-MX95xx-C SoM at Embedded World 2026

The module integrates the NXP i.MX9596 processor, which combines six Arm Cortex-A55 cores running up to 1.8 GHz with real-time microcontroller cores including Cortex-M7 at 800 MHz and Cortex-M33 at 333 MHz. Graphics processing is handled by an Arm Mali-G310 GPU supporting OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.2, and OpenCL 3.0.

MYIR Launches AM62Lx-based MYC-YM62LX SoM with 3× CAN-FD and 8× UART

The MYC-YM62LX measures 43 × 45 mm and is powered by the TI AM62Lx processor, specifically the AM62L32BOGHAANBR variant, featuring dual Arm Cortex-A53 cores running at up to 1.25 GHz. The processor family targets Linux-based industrial platforms that require low power consumption while maintaining sufficient compute capability for display-driven applications and embedded control systems.

Ubuntu Buzz !

How To Print from LibreOffice Writer on Ubuntu

Printing documents is a primary need to many of LibreOffice users. This article discusses how to do printings from LibreOffice Writer by an example of an A5 page document. We use a Canon MP160--our old but recommended multifunction printer--, on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" to practice this. We hope this helps everyone who uses Ubuntu for all of their computing life especially printings. Now let's start reading and go printing!

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Why Your Web Site Should Also Support HTTP (Without 'Secure')
    sites which force everybody to use HTTPS have an inherent accessibility problem
  2. Microsoft Windows is Technically at 0% in Some Countries
    It's not an important platform to target anymore
  3. Windows Measured at 5.7% 'Market Share' in Philippines, GNU/Linux Rose to 5%
    It was 3.62% last month
  4. statCounter: GNU/Linux Up to 4.6%, Windows Down Sharply This Month (Almost 22% Worldwide)
    Let's see it the figures stay stable throughout the month
  5. Figures of Note: Tesla's Debt Has More Than Doubled in Two Years and It's a Symptom of a Fake Economic Order
    Cash infusions by taxpayers can create "billionaires" who aren't "job creators" (see what happened to Twitter) and bring no benefits to these taxpayers, only poverty
  6. Linux Foundation Let Linux.com Rot for Two Months and Now It Posts Ridiculous Spam
    Mindless shopping site

    New

  7. A Cult of Fake Security
    It's almost as if there's a coordinated effort to weed out and drive away people who are passionate about security for the users, as opposed to the financial security of companies like Google and Microsoft
  8. Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Long Hair and Spirituality, Technology and Nature
    Links for the day
  9. Windows Not Even a 'Thing' Anymore... in North America (Where It Originally Came From)?
    StatCounter shows Windows isn't even listed as a leading platform in any country in North America
  10. Links 02/12/2024: Obesity Crisis to Worsen, Syrian Coups Rebound
    Links for the day
  11. Months After Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Nigeria Windows "Market Share" Collapses (Now Measured at 5%)
    Of course the winner is Android (new all-time high of 77.3%)
  12. South America Has Made It (Android Majority Everywhere) and in North America New Records for GNU/Linux Usage
    Windows monopoly rents cannot be salvaged
  13. Windows Down to Only One in Six Internet- or Web-Connected Devices in Asia
    it's not looking good for Microsoft
  14. Microsoft Windows Market Share in the United Kingdom Has Fallen to About 20%
    Microsoft knows the true numbers, but it would rather not tell
  15. Links 02/12/2024: Journalists Arrested, Tesla Factories Destroying the Planet and Public Health
    Links for the day
  16. Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Adventures With Bevy, Google Very Evil, Jumping Into Gemini
    Links for the day
  17. BetaNews is Still a Shrine of Microsoft, and Casually Also an LLM Slop Factory
    Fake articles, anti-Linux FUD, and Microsoft propaganda make a sound "business model"?
  18. [Meme] Cyber Monday is Not a Thing; There's No Such Thing (It's a Corporate SPAM Campaign Plaguing the Web)
    Enough with these fake 'holidays' that billionaires (business oligarchs) keep inventing to make more money at other people's expense (debt)
  19. Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and Linux Foundation: Same Mentality of Revisionism and Plunder
    Lie about history and then 'cash in'
  20. [Meme] Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Begs You for Donations
    How does one even spend 20,000 dollars per month???
  21. Why Software Freedom Conservancy Does Not Deserve Money (Karen Sandler is Already a Millionaire and Her Organisation Attacks Free Software Leaders)
    These people speak for "Big Money" interests, not for freedom
  22. On the internet [sic] (Lowercase), They Spread Misinformation About the Internet
    Hugh Grant remembers what happened before he was born
  23. Richard Stallman Was Getting Honorary Doctorates Almost Every Year Until 'Cancel Culture' Stepped in, Distracting From Jeffrey Epstein's Ties to Bill Gates
    This finally ended... earlier this year (October)
  24. Self-Deprecating Attacks on RMS
    Drew DeVault seems to have deleted all of his social control media accounts
  25. When Bills Are Rising, Whereas the Demand Isn't (OpenAI is Insolvent)
    Latest month on record shows traffic fell about 3 times lower than earlier this year
  26. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  27. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 01, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, December 01, 2024
  28. Links 02/12/2024: Climate, Sportwashing, and Software Patents
    Links for the day
  29. Gemini Links 02/12/2024: Words and Apologies, Being Rude, and Geminauts 0.1.0 Release
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-11-26 to 2024-12-02
    1874 /n/2024/11/27/There_Are_More_Devuan_Based_Distros_of_GNU_Linux_Each_Year.shtml
    1644 /n/2024/11/30/Proving_Yet_Again_That_Techrights_Was_Right_About_UEFI_Secure_B.shtml
    927 /n/2024/12/02/Why_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Does_Not_Deserve_Money_Karen_S.shtml
    918 /n/2024/11/30/Apache_Software_Foundation_Already_Infiltrated_by_Microsoft_for.shtml
    636 /n/2024/12/02/Figures_of_Note_Tesla_s_Debt_Has_More_Than_Doubled_in_Two_Years.shtml
    586 /n/2024/11/19/What_IBMers_Say_About_IBM_Causing_IBMers_to_Resign_by_Making_Li.shtml
    570 /n/2024/11/29/Links_29_11_2024_Smithfield_Market_in_London_Shutting_Down_BRIC.shtml
    569 /n/2024/11/25/BetaNews_is_Run_and_Written_by_Bots_That_Make_Clickbait.shtml

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