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System76 talks about their monthly fixes for the new COSMIC desktop and how it is getting more polished: https://blog.system76.com/post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix Will you try the new desktop when it comes out? 😄

Public German broadcasting services ARD and ZDF will open source part of their software libraries used in their operations. https://www.heise.de/en/news/ARD-und-ZDF-wollen-ihren-Streaming-Code-als-Open-Source-anbieten-9709177.html

Zed editor is coming soon to Linux. https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-linux-when

Red Hat announces Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI); a Red Hat based Linux distribution for building and developing open source AI models. Currently it is in developer preview status, and you have to build the images by yourself + have a valid RHEL subscription. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-rhel-ai-guide-open-source-way-doing-ai

OpenSSF and OpenJS Foundations Issue Alert for Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/

Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 From Open Source Developers https://boehs.org/node/bountysource

Proton 9.0 released for better Linux gaming with Steam https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/21-proton-90-released-for-better-linux-gaming-with-steam

Linux Mint goes more fork-y on GNOME and their apps https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/20-linux-mint-goes-more-fork-y-on-gnome-and-their-apps

Our recent news article about Systemd has been shared on both HN frontpage and Reddit, and this is how it looks from the other side. 😂📈 Luckily, and thanks to the open-source Flarum forum script, our server can easily handle it with zero downtime. 😎

For older CPUs, there is a little "trick" you can do to get some extra performance on your Linux system. The trick may cost your computer security, but some crazy ones out there may take it 😎 https://fosspost.org/disable-cpu-mitigations-on-linux

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