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Windows will be more open, AMD doubles down on FOSS, Big Peertube improvements
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GNOME gets €1 million, Amazon wants its own Linux, Steam Deck OLED, Immutable Ubuntu
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Fedora KDE drops X11, Huge Nvidia Wayland fixes, Web DRM is dead, Linux kernel 6.6
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Wayland on Mint, is Youtube's adblock blocker legal? Fedora 39 delayed
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Ubuntu broke deb installs, new GNOME director controversy, OpenSUSE new installer
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Will GNOME drop X11? Ubuntu 23.10, Mastodon is more popular than we thought
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elementary OS 7.1, Snap malware, France wants to ban VPNs
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Photoshop on the web, Mint + Debian, & COSMIC updates
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Nouveau maintainer resigns, Fedora might drop X11 entirely, LTS now 2 years only
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Another Linux tablet, HDR gaming & Linux malware
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Plasma 6 not before 2024, new Ubuntu App Store, GNOME breaks extensions
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Accent colors standard & kernel performance boosts
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Ubuntu desktop plans, NVIDIA BIOS lock broken, Budgie gets updates
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New Linux tablet, SUSE goes private, GNOME 45 beta
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New CPU flaws will lower performance, Linux enterprise shakeup, KDE Wayland support
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