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Partitioning Your Linux Drives: Does It Provide Any Benefits? (odysee.com)

systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems (www.phoronix.com)

Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating (www.phoronix.com)

Returning to Xfce 4.18 after years of Gnome 3/4 (xfce.org)

After years of using Gnome 3/4 with a modified setup on Debian, I returned to Xfce, and am quite impressed by the state of Xfce 4.18....

GNOME Devs Are Working on a New Window Management System (9to5linux.com)

What is KDE Neon, in simpler or more practical terms? How's your experience with it? (neon.kde.org)

I have read the FAQ of KDE Neon: it is well made and answers ground questions like “Is it a distro?” or “Can I turn Kubuntu into KDE Neon?”...

Furi Phone FLX1: Debian smartphone debuts • The Register (www.theregister.com)

Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features (fosstodon.org)

On "Wasting disk space" (www.ypsidanger.com)

Flatpaks aren’t huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can’t recommend reading this article enough.

Could we add "Distrochooser" to the sidebar? (distrochooser.de)

Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?

Thank you all so much for keeping me on the Linux train! (lemmy.zip)

Well after spending all afternoon with this new Dell XPS 13 9315 I absolutely love it. The fit and finish feels exactly like a Macbook Air....

Chimera Linux (chimera-linux.org)

I just found about this distro, which is relatively new (2021). Its specificity is that it doesn’t features any GNU software by default, which I find interesting.

XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience (www.phoronix.com)

Scam bitcoin Snap app! (popey.com)

A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.

Nautilus File Manager Gets More Features Ahead of the GNOME 46 Release - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

Canonical's Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps (www.phoronix.com)

Extensions in GNOME 45 - New import system is not backwards compatible (blogs.gnome.org)

By now it is probably no longer news to many: GNOME Shell moved from GJS’ own custom imports system to standard JavaScript modules (ESM)....

This $149 RISC-V Tablet Runs Ubuntu 24.04 (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

The link makes it seem like crap hardware, and sure 4gb of ram is really crappy. But how does this compare with one of my kid’s Fire tablets? Does anyone have opinions on that?

Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor (tukaani.org)

They haven’t particularly made a comment on the situation so much as acknowledged it’s happening. They seem to be going with the story that they had nothing to do with it and this is news to them. Hope to hear more from them soon so we can find out more about the situation, how and why this happened, etc....

Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data (www.reddit.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/13397700...

COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)

Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs (9to5linux.com)

Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs....

The Unity Desktop Environment an Underrated Masterpiece (unityd.org)

Why is the unity is underrated when its what i use right now with Ubuntu Unity and its actually really great experience for my 2021 HP Stream 11 Laptop and i hope you all to share your experiences using the unity de in Debain Ubuntu Arch Fedora Gentoo Opensuse Etc thanks for your Amazing community my Wonderful Friends