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If you have had enough of Microsoft like I have then you may be looking for an alternative, for users who are being left behind with windows 10 unless they buy a whole new computer for winblows 11 then Linux is a great alternative to save money as it's free, saves carbon emissions and best of all it respects your privacy endof10.org/

You can continue to enjoy your computer for many more years to come without Microsoft!

#linux#endof10#linuxdesktop
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NVIDIA 580 Linux driver will be the last to support Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, X11 versions older than v1.17 will also be deprecated:
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-L

Bash 5.3 released with a new form of command substitution that executes the command within the current shell execution context, GLOBSORT variable can be used to determine how the shell will sort results of pathname completion, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/GNU-Bash-5.3

DXVK 2.7 released with Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications running atop the Vulkan API, other changes:
phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.7-Rel

Alpine Linux developer Ariadne Conill announced Wayback, a new X11 compatibility layer on Wayland, utilizing a rootful XWayland server:
phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 laptop available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX and AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processors:
9to5linux.com/tuxedo-stellaris

Linux reaches 5% desktop marketshare in the US:
ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-

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www.phoronix.comNVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Fedora made proposal to drop UEFI boot support of x86-64 systems running on MBR-partitioned disks:
news.itsfoss.com/fedora-uefi-m

SUSE's Agama installer switches from X.Org to Wayland for installation GUI:
phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Agama-1

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed monthly update brings KDE Plasma 6.4, other package updates, security patches:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/

Arch ISO with Linux kernel 6.15 and Archinstall 3.0.8 is available:
9to5linux.com/first-arch-linux

Ubuntu 25.10 will raise RISC-V profile requirements:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu

Critical Sudo vulnerabilities found, exploited using --chroot (-R) and --host (-h) options:
ostechnix.com/sudo-vulnerabili

GNOME 49 will default to the Papers document viewer:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Papers

GNOME 49 Alpha 1 released with showing the workspace switcher on-screen display across all monitors, do-not-disturb quick setting, dedicated accessibility menu on the login screen, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-

KDE improves KClock by adding picture-in-picture support on Wayland:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Clock-Wa

KDE Plasma 6.4.2 released with various bug fixes and improvements:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-2

KDE Gear 25.04.3 released as the last update in the KDE Gear 25.04 series, with fixes for Dolphin, KClock, Gwenview, Itinerary etc.:
9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-04-3

Debian installer Trixie RC2 released with improved installation media handling, better Secure Boot support, Btrfs system rescue, improved bootloader reliability, etc.:
ostechnix.com/debian-installer

Debian aiming to attract more contributors, looks for OpenAI fund for the AI usage of contributors:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-More-

New Gentoo images available with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.3:
phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux

AerynOS tooling is rewritten in Rust instead of D (not C lol):
phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-Mid-

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It's FOSS News · Another Radical Move as Fedora Now Wants to Drop UEFI Boot Support on MBRUEFI boot support for MBR could be removed in Fedora 43.
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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Billal Dellal

Thinking of switching to Linux...
I've read that it's more flexible in terms of "modifying" open source softwares (mainly photography) to have my own versions and simply has more freedom. Since I discovered these softwares I never looked back but I'm a Windows user my whole life.
What's a beginner friendly version of Linux you advise me to give it a go ?
#linux #linuxdesktop #linuxhelp #opensource

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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Fedora proposal was made to discontinue 32-bit support in a two-step process, starting from 44, but it was withdrawn:
ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i6

Fedora dropping 32-bit support would put Bazzite's future development at risk, due to breakages of essential Steam features:
news.itsfoss.com/fedora-could-

Fedora proposal was made to replace upstream X.Org server with XLibre, but the proposal was withdrawn:
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-XL
phoronix.com/news/Fedora-XLibr

Hyprland plans to launch €5/month premium tier:
news.itsfoss.com/hyprland-prem

Kubuntu 25.10 won't include Xorg session by default:
news.itsfoss.com/kubuntu-25-10

Qt 6.10 will offer session-management-v1 protocol support for Wayland session restore/management, Plasma 6.5 will include clipboard sync support for the built-in RDP server, ability to copy QR code for clipboard items, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Session-

KDE Plasma 6.4.1 released with an effect potentially triggering seizure disabled, text contrast and readability improvements, Discover improvements, bug fixes:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kde-pl

KDE Plasma to get improved initial setup tool:
news.itsfoss.com/kde-new-initi

postmarketOS 25.06 released with Alpine Linux 3.22 base, GNOME Mobile 48, Plasma Mobile 6.3.5, Phosh 0.47.0, and Sxmo 1.17.1, support for more devices, Systemd support, mobile-config-thunderbird:
9to5linux.com/postmarketos-25-

PipeWire 1.4.6 released with option to disable RAOP, improved ALSA plugin, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-6-a

Wine 10.11 released with preparations for NTSYNC support to improve gaming performance, more support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL, bug fixes for several games:
phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.11-R

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#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

KDE Plasma 6.4 released, with revamped UI for Spectacle, per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, new HDR calibration wizard, support for new Wayland protocols, improved KRunner, etc.:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-d

KDE Plasma development will focus on Wayland support, X11 support is only secondary, only critical bugs will be fixed, unless someone pays to fix less critical issues:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-

Flathub reaches 3 billion total downloads:
ostechnix.com/flathub-3-billio

Wine package on Arch becomes pure WoW64, dependency on multilib repository is dropped:
ostechnix.com/arch-linux-wine-

Wine 10.10 released with updated Mono engine, expanded capabilities for generating Windows Runtime metadata in the Windows Interface Definition Language (WIDL) tool, bug fixes for video games, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/

Linux kernel 6.16 RC2 released with driver fixes, bcachefs improvements etc.:
ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-1

NVIDIA 575.64 Linux driver released with a few bug fixes:
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-575.6

XLibre 25.0 released with code clean-ups, new Xnamespace extension, Xnest ported to xcb, fixes for several CVEs, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/XLibre-25.0-

Security fixes for X.Org and XWayland:
phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server
phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.

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#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
Aptivi

GNOME fixes the Trash bug from 2009!

GNOME Desktop had a bug in the Trash function where the leftover files from the user-wide expunged trash directory, found in ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged, were not being deleted properly, and that the Nautilus file manager, which GNOME uses, inaccurately reported that the trash was empty. This bug was originally reported in Ubuntu’s Launchpad under the title of “Emptying the trash can lead to have files still on disk in expunged.”

This caused problems with the free disk space, since the bug reporter had stated that they had about 70 GB of files in the expunged directory, which were handled incorrectly when emptying the trash. Furthermore, said directory was found in the hidden .local folder underneath your home directory, which was not obvious to the average user. This was said to be due to wrong permissions being applied to the offending files, and a reproducer was found:

mkdir -p test/roottouch test/root/filesudo chown root:root test/root

This followed the two chained rules, first for trashing and second for emptying, where, ipsis verbis:

  • when a directory A is in a directory owned by you and it’s owned by you, you can obviously move it.
  • when a directory B is in a directory A owned by you but you don’t own it, and it’s not empty, you can’t delete it.

So, essentially, this boils down to:

  • The test directory is made by the current user (assume that the current user is aptivi)
  • The root directory inside the user-owned test directory is made by aptivi
  • A file, file, which aptivi owned, was created inside the root directory
  • The root directory’s owner had changed to the root user
  • The test directory can be moved to aptivi‘s trash, since the first chained rule has been followed
    • Explanation: test was owned by aptivi and had a parent directory that was also owned by aptivi
  • The root directory can’t be deleted from aptivi‘s trash, since the second chained rule has been followed
    • Explanation: root, a non-empty directory owned by root, was inside test, owned by aptivi, and the root directory can’t be removed
  • The root directory can now be found underneath the expunged folder under aptivi‘s .local folder

The appropriate GNOME bug tracker ticket was brought to the upstream developers six years ago from writing who confirmed that the issue was happening. According to this blog post, the merge request was submitted to the GNOME project, which was approved. The fix is now at the upstream GLib code.

An internal function was added to the I/O part of the GLib library, called check_removing_recursively(), that checked whether “subsequently deleting the original file from the trash (in the gvfsd-trash process) will succeed.” It also checked the ownership of the files before deletion and automatically assigned the file mode (chmod) to allow deletion.

That filled one of the TODO tasks in the I/O code that handled emptying the trash in the internal function, g_local_file_trash(). It said “Maybe we should verify that you can delete the file from the trash before moving it? OTOH, that is hard, as it needs a recursive scan.”

Now, you can empty the trash without worrying about the free disk space, but only if your Linux distribution uses a version of GNOME that contains this fix. We expect that this fix will land to several distributions in the coming days or weeks.

Pro tip: to eliminate the remaining expunged files after installing the fixed version of GNOME, use this trick to free up disk space.

#GNOME#GNOMEDesktop#Linux
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rtdsx :rainbow_flag:

So we all have used Windows, right. I have a Digital license for both that are tied to my account. But we all have paid for it and I'm sick of the choices that Microsoft has made. Microsoft: "Yeah let's bake in Ads and USELESS AI in the product our users pay for"

yeah I won't be using that. I still love Windows deep down, but that's Windows 10. Too bad it's not getting supported unless you pay for ESU. I'm gonna use Linux on PCs in the future.

In my opinion: Fuck Microsoft and Win11.

#linux #linuxdesktop #microsoft #enshittification #windows10 #windows11 #linuxtips #endof10

might edit this in the future

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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Ubuntu 24.10 will reach EOL on July 10, upgrading to 25.04 is recommended:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu

Ubuntu 25.10 (shipping GNOME 49) will remove GNOME X11 session:
9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-que

Linux Mint 20 reached EOL, upgrading to 22 is recommended:
news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20

Linux Mint 22.2 adds out-of-the-box fingerprint authentication support with Fingwit app:
9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-2-

Nitrux drops the Plasma-based NX desktop for Hyprland, due to the discontinuation of Plasma LTS released:
9to5linux.com/nitrux-linux-dro
(It's a bit weird choice that they ditched a full DE for a standalone compositor, which is tiling in fact, and requires editing some config files manually, not sure if DE users want that.)

Kali Linux 2025.2 released with revamped Kali Menu, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 8.3, 13 new tools (including Azurehound, binwalk3, bloodhound-ce-python etc.):
9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-

GNOME 49 Alpha 0 available with preparations for disabling X11 by default:
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alp

Sway 1.11 released with explicit sync support, support for the ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 protocols for improved screen capture, support for the alpha-modifier-v1 protocol for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface, etc.:
9to5linux.com/sway-1-11-tiling

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OMG! Ubuntu · Ubuntu 24.10 Support Ends July 10thUbuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole reaches end of life July 10, 2025. All users will need to upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin to continue receiving security updates.
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Arch project to create new sponsorships policy, which defines two types of sponsorships:
news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-sp

elementaryOS 8 released with new gesture controller, improved multitasking view, notification when taking a screenshot with a keyboard shortcut, improved dock, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed monthly update brings Linux kernel 6.14.6, QEMU 10.0, KDE Plasma 6.3.5, other updated packages:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/

CachyOS update fixes NVIDIA issues by detecting the GPU and atomatically installing the correct driver, brings new boot animation and GRUB theme, Cachy-Browser discontinued, Firefox with custom config becomes the default, Proton-CachyOS is now based on Proton 10:
betanews.com/2025/06/01/cachyo

Rocky Linux 9.6 released with enhanced image-building and delivery process, updated images, additional policy rules for SELinux, package updates:
9to5linux.com/rocky-linux-9-6-

UBports 20.04 OTA-9 released with VoLTE support out-of-the-box for more carriers, Waydroid 1.5.1, new font for emojis, support for newer emojis, bug fixes:
ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-ne

Malicious pull requests to the Linux kernel copying Linus Torvalds' patches and re-listing him as the author got prevented:
news.itsfoss.com/linus-kernel-

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It's FOSS News · Sponsorships Seem to Be Coming to Arch Linux!A proposal looks to introduce a transparent sponsorship process to Arch Linux.
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
Miro Hrončok :fedora: :python:

Looking at the laptop screen at night with no surrounding ambient light is uncomfortable.

I struggled with the 2 low settings of brightness: a blank display (0%) or lasers into my eyes (10%).

`brightnessctl set 1%` is good.

Now I've figured out that #Xfce can change the number of steps (from the default 10). Moreover, it supports exponential steps (more natural for the human eye).

With 27 exponential steps, the first 10 options are "almost 0%". Perfection!

#Linux#LinuxDesktop#Fedora
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