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OBS Studio 31.1 Released with Multitrack Video Support on Linux

Highlights of OBS Studio 31.1 include Multitrack Video support on Linux and macOS, preview zoom controls, support for additional canvases for Multitrack Video output, AV1 B-frame support for AMF, and support for color format/space/range GPU conversion.

Wayland 1.24 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements

Wayland 1.24 includes a new wl_fixes interface to add a request to destroy a wl_registry object, wl_proxy_get_interface() and wl_resource_get_interface() to fetch the wl_interface of an object, and wl_display_dispatch_queue_timeout() and wl_display_dispatch_timeout() to set a timeout when dispatching events.

Ethical Hacking Distro Parrot OS 6.4 Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, New Tools

Coming after Parrot OS 6.3, the Parrot OS 6.4 release is powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, including for the Raspberry Pi edition, and features two new tools, namely Goshs, a SimpleHTTPServer written in Go, and ConvoC2, a Red Teamer’s tool to exploit Microsoft Teams for remote command execution.

GNOME 49 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Disables X11 Session by Default

Probably the biggest change of the upcoming GNOME 49 desktop environment series is that the X11 (GNOME on Xorg) session has been disabled by default in various core components, including GDM (GNOME Display Manager), Mutter, and GNOME Session, the latter also dropping the session restore functionality and X Session Management Protocol (XSMP) support.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 6th, 2025

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Geany 2.1 Open-Source IDE Released with Improved UI and File Type Support

Geany 2.1 is here more than one year and eight months after Geany 2.0 with new features like support for searching the Messages and Compiler output, support for modern platform-native file selection dialogs, the ability to regroup file types by letter, and new filters for opening the documents sidebar and keybindings preferences.

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PANZER-LITE93 with Ubuntu 24.04 Ready for Compact AIoT Edge Computing

MayQueen has introduced the PANZER-LITE93, a compact fanless edge computing device built on the NXP i.MX93 processor, featuring integrated neural network acceleration and flexible connectivity in a lightweight 3D-printed enclosure for AIoT, IIoT gateways, robotics, and other low-power edge applications.

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  1. 'Official' Debian Sites That Sell Proprietary and Surveillance
    "Azure API throttling strikes back"
  2. Software Freedom Month at NITK Surathkal and Yesterday's Talk by Richard Stallman
    the message being spread by the person who started it all
  3. GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States, Based on statCounter
    Windows is the loser; GNU/Linux grows at its expense
  4. statCounter Reckons Less Than 10% in Mexico Still Use Windows to Access to Web and GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time High (Plus, Microsoft's Latest Debt Crisis)
    Looking at Mexico in isolation

    New

  5. statCounter: Only 1 in ~40 Web Users in Ireland Uses Microsoft Browser, One in Six Uses Windows
    When/if Windows market share goes down, so will Edge
  6. Links 04/02/2025: Social Control Media Bans and US Fighting Its Allies, Not Russia
    Links for the day
  7. Links 04/02/2025: Birth of a Calf, FOSDEM, and More
    Links for the day
  8. Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies
    Beware false headlines and fake text from cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com
  9. BetaNews Began Removing LLM Slop About "Linux", But More of It Keeps Coming From Guardian Digital, Inc (at linuxsecurity.com)
    the other Serial Slopper, Guardian Digital, Inc
  10. Mollamby, Suicide Cluster, not trademark, the real reasons for Debian legal expenses, evidence
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  11. Links 04/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Salesforce, Economic Pressures, Trade Wars
    Links for the day
  12. [Video] Richard Stallman Auctioning a GNU (Gnu) at Surathkal, India
    clip is only a minute-long
  13. statCounter: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Measured at 2.78% in Japan (It Used to be Less Than 0.5%)
    really 'took off' half a decade ago
  14. LLM Hype (Chatbots Hyped and Wrongly Characterised as "Artificial Intelligence") Cause Net Inflation
    Net as in Internet, not limited to the Web
  15. It Looks Like BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne Williams is Taking Over From Fagioli After Repeat Pattern of LLM Slop (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) About "Linux"
    The most plausible explanation is, Fagioli got caught or his conduct could no longer be ignored
  16. From India to Italy: Richard Stallman's Next Talk is Next Week in Torino
    Announced less than a day ago
  17. Corporate Media is Intentionally Lying for Microsoft, There's Now a Hiring Freeze, No Replacements for Workers Laid Off in Two Mass Layoffs Last Month
    Maybe the media - at least some of it - actually deserves doom. If it covers up for the powerful to muzzle and gaslight the oppressed, then what sort of media is that anyway?
  18. Gemini Links 04/02/2025: Tolkien and New Job
    Links for the day
  19. Covering EPO Scandals in an Age of Mass Censorship (and Europe Being Afraid to Introspect, for It Might "Help Putin")
    It was all along expected that "external enemies" would be invoked to suppress discussion about EPO crimes
  20. Facebook Finally Admits That It Censored Linux and Banned People for Mentioning It; statCounter Shows Rapid Growth for GNU/Linux in Southeast Asia
    So GAFAM is losing its power
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 03, 2025
    IRC logs for Monday, February 03, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-01-29 to 2025-02-04
    1208 /n/2025/01/30/The_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_422_000_Another_22k_in_.shtml
    1024 /n/2025/02/03/It_Seems_Like_BetaNews_is_Finally_Deleting_Fake_Articles_About_.shtml
    757 /n/2025/01/29/We_Were_Right_About_stallmansupport_org_Making_an_Error_by_Join.shtml
    742 /n/2025/02/01/Arrested_Albanian_Outreachy_whistleblowers_Sonny_Piers_GNOME_De.shtml
    686 /n/2025/02/02/Yandex_Has_Nearly_Caught_Up_With_Microsoft_Internationally_Bing.shtml
    677 /browse/latest.shtml
    661 /n/2025/01/29/Links_29_01_2025_Data_Privacy_Day_and_Growing_Tensions_in_Europ.shtml
    598 /n/2025/01/28/Links_28_01_2025_Against_Social_Control_Media_Smart_Buses_Ticke.shtml
    530 /n/2025/01/29/Announcements_and_Administrivia.shtml
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