Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:<p>This week's Linux and FOSS news:</p><p>LINUX NEWS</p><p>Linux kernel turns 34 years old (as of the announcement of the project):<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/happy-34th-birthday-linux" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/happy-34th-birth</span><span class="invisible">day-linux</span></a><br>(Happy birthday, Linux! You're my home since I opened my eyes and left my digital enslavement cell)</p><p>GNOME executive director Steven Deobald steps down, Allan Day takes on the role:<br><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steven-Deobald-Steps-Down" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phoronix.com/news/Steven-Deoba</span><span class="invisible">ld-Steps-Down</span></a><br>(That's really sad, based on what I heard, Steven has been one of the best executive directors in the past couple of years, he had pretty solid plans which would greatly help the foundation come out of the crisis they face right now. Hope Allan will continue Steven's work, implement his plans in practice. It's pretty weird though, why all executive directors leave after a few months, I think the community would deserve some explanation about what's going on beyond the scenes, since the GNOME project is mainly driven by the community, we are your stakeholders, GNOME.)</p><p>KDE Plasma 6.5 gets saved clipboard items feature after being requested for 22 years:<br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/plasma-6-5-saved-clipboard-items/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/plasma-6-5-saved</span><span class="invisible">-clipboard-items/</span></a><br>(Wait, they are also doing the "GNOME thing" and make users wait that much? lol)</p><p>Ubuntu 25.10 final snapshot released, beta planned to 18 September, stable release to 9 October, will include experimental TPM-backed full disk encryption, GNOME Xorg session dropped, sudo-rs, GNOME 49, Chrony v4.7 instead of systemd-timesyncd, etc.:<br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-final-snapshot-released/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/ubuntu-25-10-que</span><span class="invisible">sting-quokka-final-snapshot-released/</span></a></p><p>Fedora 43 features delayed to 44: CMake 4.0 packages, change for CMake to use the Ninja generator by default, hardlinking of identical /usr files in packages by default, and more:<br><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Changes-Delayed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Ch</span><span class="invisible">anges-Delayed</span></a></p><p>Agama 17 OS installer released, will be available for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16, with better representation of wired network connections, improvements to the storage user interface, more options on the OS registration page, allow skipping the SELinux configuration, etc.:<br><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Agama-17-Installer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phoronix.com/news/Agama-17-Ins</span><span class="invisible">taller</span></a></p><p>(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WeeklyNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeeklyNews</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LinuxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxNews</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LinuxKernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxKernel</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/SUSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SUSE</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/KDEPlasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDEPlasma</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/DE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DE</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FosseryTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FosseryTech</span></a></p>