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Also worthy to mention that Firefox 122 has been released. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/122.0/releasenotes/

Mozilla has packaged Firefox as a DEB version so that it can be installed on Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions. Apparently, and reading between the lines, they don't like the fact that their software is packaged as a Snap. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/4-reasons-to-try-mozillas-new-firefox-linux-package-for-ubuntu-and-debian-derivatives/

Flatpak, Silverblue, CoreOS... Fedora puts everything in a container. 😁😎

Are you working in an industrial sector and looking for open source digital twin platforms? This helpful list can get you started. Supplemented by a research paper we cited in the article about the topic. 😎 https://fosspost.org/10-open-source-digital-twin-platforms/

Did you know that big companies are using and providing AI services however they like, while also funding "independent" AI policy centers that push to target and limit alternative open source AI models? Yep, read this story: https://1a3orn.com/sub/machine-learning-bans.html

Wine 9.0 has been released. https://www.winehq.org/news/2024011601

Linux Mint 21.3 has been released with Cinnamon 6.0: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4624

New update about COSMIC: The new desktop environment by System76. https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha

Google has again broken its search engine for Firefox (on android) users by doing a dirty server-side change: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916 It's weird that Google's services only break on Firefox these days... huh? Eh.

Linux Kernel 6.7 has been released. https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.7

New opinion piece: The Best Linux Distribution of 2023 was… The Linux Desktop https://fosspost.org/best-linux-distribution-of-2023-linux-desktop/

Someone opened their multiplayer HTML5 game engine and made it under an open source license. Check it out if you are a game dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706299