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Warning to those installing KDE themes and addons... You might lose your entire disk data, just like this user did. https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/16-kde-6-global-theme-removed-all-user-data

Firefox 124 has been released. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/124.0/releasenotes/

See this hilarious bug in openSUSE KDE (Tumbleweed), and remember Windows XP bugs back in the day. 😁 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1bi5yvo/hilarious_bug_after_a_fresh_install/

5 Live Linux systems that you can use for data restoration and data backups. https://fosspost.org/recovery-clone-systems-save-disk-data/

Updates from System76 about their COSMIC desktop and its new features: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-more-alpha-more-fun Very excited to put our hands on it once it becomes stable.

Mozilla in collaboration with developers of other browser engines like Blink (Chrome) and Webkit (Safari) have announced the release of Speedometer 3: A benchmark for web browsers to measure their responsiveness according to modern web standards. Take the test here and tell us how much score you got + what browser you are using: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0

Linux kernel 6.8 has been released. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiehc0DfPtL6fC2=bFuyzkTnuiuYSQrr6JTQxQao6pq1Q@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

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This is an important blog post about upcoming font rendering and fractional scaling enhancements in Gtk 4.14: https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/ You would need to use a modern Linux distro to receive such update, though.

If you are interested in developing open source medical solutions, then perhaps you want to take a look at the following set of helpful open source projects: https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/15-openmedlab-open-source-medical-ai-models-and-tools

You know funding open source is a hard problem when even the platform dedicated to funding open source software gets closed because it couldn't get enough funding. Open Collective is shutting down. https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/regarding-the-announcement-to-dissolve-open-collective-foundation

KDE Plasma 6 has been released. Features migration to Wayland by default + written in Qt6, with tons of enhancements. https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/