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  1. This week's Linux and FOSS news:

    LINUX NEWS

    Colorado Age Attestation Bill May Exclude Open Source OSes and Apps:
    9to5linux.com/colorado-age-att

    AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law:
    phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Ag

    Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released: GNOME 50, Wayland-only and Linux 7.0:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu

    Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages:
    phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Serve

    Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release date & schedule:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu

    Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils":
    phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-

    Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward:
    phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-More-

    Ghostty OpenGL-Accelerated Terminal Available On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
    phoronix.com/news/Ghostty-Ubun

    Archinstall 4.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds Support for Installing Additional Fonts:
    9to5linux.com/archinstall-4-3-

    CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel:
    phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Supe

    Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora:
    phoronix.com/news/MS-Azure-Lin

    Tails 7.7 Anonymous Distro Adds Detection of Outdated Secure Boot Certificates:
    9to5linux.com/tails-7-7-anonym

    Almalinux 9.8 beta released with expanded architecture and toolset support:
    alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/

    LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Wayland Improvements:
    9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-4-desktop

    Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support:
    phoronix.com/news/Niri-26.04-R

    (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

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  2. This week's Linux and FOSS news:

    LINUX NEWS

    GNOME GitLab Redirecting Some Git Traffic To GitHub For Reducing Costs:
    phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitHub

    Showtime video player edges closer to Ubuntu debut:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/showti

    GTK 4.22 In Good Shape With Better SVG Support:
    phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.22-SVG

    KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Is Out to Improve Custom Tiling, Networks Widget, and More:
    9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-1

    KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps Rounded Style UI Enhancement For QtWidgets-Based Apps:
    phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-R

    COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements:
    phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch

    Hyprland 0.54 Released As A "Massive" Update To This Wayland Compositor:
    phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.5

    Tails 7.5 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Updated Tor Client and Tor Browser:
    9to5linux.com/tails-7-5-anonym

    Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 4 is now available to download:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu

    Canonical Talks Up RISC-V This Year With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
    phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-RISC-

    Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ default wallpaper unveiled:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu

    AerynOS 2026.02 Brings More Wayland Compositor Options, Other Improvements:
    phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2026

    Clonezilla Live 3.3.1 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, Improved BitLocker Support:
    9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-

    AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week:
    phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-2M

    Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.6 Released with Linux 6.19, TLP Support, and More:
    9to5linux.com/slackware-based-

    (more Linux and FOSS news in comment)

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  3. This week's Linux and FOSS news:

    LINUX NEWS

    Ubuntu 25.10 Released, Available to Download Now (with GNOME 49, TPM-backed disk encryption, Ptyxis terminal and Loupe image viewer preinstalled):
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ubuntu

    How To Fix Broken Flatpak Issue In Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka:
    ostechnix.com/fix-broken-flatp
    (Hmm, seems like they are testing how users react to not being able to install Flatpaks. They are using the Microsoft technique to do something their users don't like, undo it, then push it again later.)

    Xubuntu Linux 25.10 released with improved Wayland support and Xfce 4.20:
    betanews.com/2025/10/10/xubunt

    Ubuntu Reveal Codename of Next Year’s 26.04 LTS:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ubuntu

    Fedora 43 Landing Emergency Change To Increase /boot Due To NVIDIA GPU Firmware & Other Bloat:
    phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Bi

    Solus Linux Preparing To Remove Python 2, Big systemd Upgrade & Finish /usr Merge:
    phoronix.com/news/Solus-Linux-

    Introducing KRetro: a Libretro game emulator from KDE! (Alpha Release):
    blog.seshan.xyz/2025/10/05/int

    Proton Experimental brings fixes for The Quarry, For Honor, God of War: Ragnarok and more:
    gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/prot

    Proton 10.0-3 release candidate live for testing better Windows game compatibility on Linux / Steam Deck:
    gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/prot

    Amazon Ditches Android — Launches 'Linux-Based' Vega OS for Fire TV:
    news.itsfoss.com/amazon-vega-o

    Ubuntu Touch (UBports) 24.04-1.0 released as the first version based on Ubuntu 24.04, with Fairphone 5 support, light mode, personal data encryption, etc.:
    ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-

    Phosh 0.50.0 released with some smaller changes, bug fixes:
    phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.50.0/

    (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

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