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GNU Head, Stallman’s katana, and Internet Hall of Fame medal auctioned off to free software community members

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Monday, March 24, 2025) the Free
Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that, among other historical
free software artifacts, the GNU Head found a new home through an
unprecedented memorabilia auction.

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FSF News: GNU Head, Stallman’s katana, and Internet Hall of Fame medal auctioned off to free software community members

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Monday, March 24, 2025) the Free
Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that, among other historical
free software artifacts, the GNU Head found a new home through an
unprecedented memorabilia auction.

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EndeavorOS Mercury Neo Available

A new release from the EndeavorOS team ships with Plasma 6.3 and other goodies.

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Fedora 42 Beta Has Arrived

The Fedora Project has announced the availability of the first beta release for version 42 of the open-source distribution.

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Linux Kernel 6.14 Released with Boost for Linux Gaming

Linux Kernel 6.14 has arrived, bringing a clutch of changes to make your computer run more efficiently and more securely than before. Interestingly, Linux 6.14 is one the smallest kernel updates in terms of commits (not lines of code) for some time. It…

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Mirantis Is Giving Two Kubernetes Projects to CNCF

Less than a week after IBM announced that it was donating three open source AI tools to the Linux Foundation, FOSS Force learns that Kubernetes-focused Mirantis is the process of donating a couple of project to CNCF.
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5 ways I use regex in Linux (and why they’re so essential)

Once you get the hang of regular expressions, you’ll find them invaluable. The trick is to start small – I’ll show you how.

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Linux Kernel 6.14 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Linux kernel 6.14 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more. Here’s what’s new!
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How to Install Emby Media Server on Debian 12

Emby is an open-source alternative to Plex Media Server. This guide will teach you how to install Emby Media Server on Debian 12. You will install Emby with Nginx as a reverse proxy and enable UFW. Let’s get started.

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Enable 3/4 Finger Dragging in Ubuntu via Libinput 2.18.0

Libinput released version 1.28.0 today, which finally introduced the long requested three-finger drag gesture support for touchpads! The big new feature in this release is three-finger drag for touchpads. When enabled three fingers down on the touchpad will logically hold the left mouse button down, any movement of the fingers then moves the pointer for […]

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OSI’s Questionable Election Returns Questionable Results

At this point, Open Source Initiative is starting to look like an organization that’s willingly turning its back on its founding principles.
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Development Release: deepin 25 Alpha

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Following a “Preview” release in January, the deepin project has announced the availability of the first alpha build of its upcoming major release, version 25. This version introduces Li…

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Simon Josefsson: Reproducible Software Releases

Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could be improved to increase confidence in the supply-chain security of software releases. Repeating the goals for simplicity:

Release artifacts …

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 23rd, 2025

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 23rd, 2025, brings news about GNOME 48, GIMP 3.0, Fedora Linux 42 beta, Blender 4.4, Rescuezilla 2.6, EndeavourOS Mercury Neo, Finnix 250, Calibre 8.0, Kali Linux 2025.1, AerynOS, elementary OS 8.0.1, as well as a…

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Why do We Use pacman -Syu to System Update as Well as Package Installation in Arch Linux?

Unraveling the mysterious Syu in pacman

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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1114

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Bazzite 41
News: Debian Project Leader election underway, Rocky unveils new Hardened branch, GNOME 48 released, generating custom images for the…

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It’s CoreOS Test Week for Fedora 42 and Fedora Users are Needed

The release of Fedora 42 is only a month or so away, so the folks who engineer the project are calling for the user community to help, in a Test Week that starts on Monday.
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Distribution Release: EndeavourOS 2025.03.19

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bryan Poerwo has announced the release of EndeavourOS 2025.03.19, a refreshed build of the Arch Linux-based distribution’s “Mercury” line. The new release updates the Linux kernel to ver…

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How to Install GNOME’s New Adwaita Fonts in Ubuntu

This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to manually download & install the new Gnome Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono fonts in all current Ubuntu releases. GNOME introduced new interface font in version 48, named Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono. While, Ubuntu does not ship Adwaita fonts in system repository, user can […]

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Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.6

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. The project’s latest release, version 2.6, updates the b…

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