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We are happy to announce our new special edition on Substack: "UX Hurdles in Open Source" where we discuss some usability issues related to various open source software. And our first guest is: Flatpak permissions. https://fosspost.substack.com/p/ux-hurdles-in-open-source-1-flatpak?sd=pf

Linux kernel 6.4 has been released. Check the new features at Kernel Newbies: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.4

Red Hat is Shooting Itself in the Foot, Again https://fosspost.org/red-hat-is-shooting-itself-in-the-foot-again

Read our latest bi-weekly newsletter about open source news and events. Just released ⬇️ https://fosspost.substack.com/p/debian-12-is-here

Debian 12 "Bookworm" released. https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610 Good name, cause you will have to become a book worm if you want to administrate Debian and read all these man pages. 😄😎

Did you know that Apple has rebranded Wine (or "CodeWeavers" which is its twin) inside a porting toolkit that is used to test how well games can be ported to macOS? Yep, that happened. This means Wine is gonna be more popular and supported in the future. https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-comes-to-macos-apple-s-game-porting-toolkit-powered-by-crossover-source-code

openSUSE 15.5 released. https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/07/leap-release-matures-sets-up-tech-transition

Firefox 114 release notes. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/114.0/releasenotes/

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Red Hat won't be shipping future releases of LibreOffice in RHEL, which could also affect Fedora. They say it is a large work and no one has free time to do it. Was Ubuntu right to start Snapping things so that they don't end up in the same boat? https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/46ZZ6GZ2W3G4OJYX3BIWTAW75H37TVW6/

Just a heads-up: Be careful what extensions you install from Chrome & Mozilla extensions stores. They may contain malware or spyware that collects your sensitive information. This is a story where the author found malware extensions affecting 55 million users total: https://palant.info/2023/05/31/more-malicious-extensions-in-chrome-web-store/

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