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openSUSE deep sixes Deepin desktop over security stink

5 days ago | theregister.com | Liam Proven

SUSE has kicked the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) out of its community-driven Linux distro, openSUSE, and the reasons it gives for doing so are revealing. According to the SUSE Security Team, though, DDE's beauty is only skin deep. Beneath the polished surface, it's not pretty at all. The team enumerates a whole list of problems, including claimed abuses of D-Bus and Polkit, but also some very poor design decisions.
GNOME Foundation has a new executive director

6 days ago | lxer.com | Liam Proven

The GNOME Foundation has hired a new executive director to lead the organization, acting as GNOME's public face and leading the non-profit's fundraising efforts. In a post simply titled "Introducing Myself," new boss Steven Deobald does just that. He takes over a tough job from interim executive director Richard Littauer, who had the job for nearly a year.
GNOME Foundation has a new executive director

6 days ago | theregister.com | Liam Proven

The GNOME Foundation has hired a new executive director to lead the organization, acting as GNOME's public face and leading the non-profit's fundraising efforts. Deobald indirectly takes over from GNOME's last full-time ED, Holly Million. As someone who practiced an unusual minority religion, Million received some nasty vitriol in some of the lower circles of FOSS, and left the role about nine months later. We can't blame her.
Fedora 42 now an official WSL2 distro

1 week ago | lxer.com | Liam Proven

Good news for those fond of crimson headwear – Fedora 42 is now an official distro on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). When we wrote about the addition of Arch Linux on WSL2 a week ago, we showed Fedora in our screenshots, but now it's public and approved, alongside two versions of AlmaLinux and Oracle Linux. Microsoft's announcement is from former Red Hatter Jeremy Cline, who has been overseeing the project for a while. He's the owner of the Fedora change that was approved back in January.
Fedora 42 now an official WSL2 distro

1 week ago | theregister.com | Liam Proven

Good news for those fond of crimson headwear – Fedora 42 is now an official distro on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). When we wrote about the addition of Arch Linux on WSL2 a week ago, we showed Fedora in our screenshots, but now it's public and approved, alongside two versions of AlmaLinux and Oracle Linux. Fedora 42 now runs in WSL2, but you get the old kernel version bundled with WSL2 – click to enlargeThis is a welcome addition if you're used to Fedora's commands and way of doing things.
Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

1 week ago | theregister.com | Liam Proven

Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel's 486 chip and its contemporaries. The next version of the Linux kernel is progressing towards release. Release candidate 5 appeared over the weekend, and we expect the kernel itself will probably arrive around the end of May or early June. What we feel is one of the most interesting changes is the removal of support for several chips from the 80486 era.
Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet

1 week ago | lxer.com | Liam Proven

A Commodore-themed talking Linux desktop, complete with hundreds of games, makes for the biggest distro we've seen yet. In the halcyon days of 2011, The Register reported on a plan to make a modern PC clone in the classic form factor of the Commodore 64 after CEO Barry Altman had some troubles licensing the Commodore name (eventually resolved). The product did in fact launch, although sadly Altman died the following year.
Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet

1 week ago | theregister.com | Liam Proven

A Commodore-themed talking Linux desktop, complete with hundreds of games, makes for the biggest distro we've seen yet. Commodore OS 3 comes with a selection of CBM emulators, but you'll need Amiga ROMs – click to enlargeWhat is more interesting to The Reg FOSS desk, though, is that this machine has its own OS – a Linux distribution called Commodore OS. Developer Leo Nigro of Commodore USA just released version 3.0. Internally, it describes itself as COMMODORE OS VISION 3.0 (Beta 8).
Oregon State University Open Source Lab is running on fumes

1 week ago | theregister.com | Liam Proven

Higher education across the USA is facing federal funding cutbacks – and and now the Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab (OSL) is in trouble. In the post, Albertson explained that OSL provides hosting for FOSS projects "from all over the world," listing "notable milestones over the years" as including:Not to be confused with the University of Oregon, OSU set up its Open Source Lab in 2003. Since then, it's done a great deal to help multiple FOSS projects.
Trinity Desktop Environment release 14.1.4

1 week ago | lxer.com | Liam Proven

The long-running fork of KDE 3 has dropped its latest update: Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.4, now with better distro support and a fresh coat of code. Not bad for a project still chugging along 15 years after KDE itself moved on. This new release adds support for the recently released Ubuntu 25.04 and the forthcoming Fedora 43, along with a handful of both functional and cosmetic upgrades.