This week's Linux and FOSS news:
LINUX NEWS
GNOME Foundation has financial issues, reduced staff, calls for the help of community:
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/07/update-from-the-board-2024-10/
(Luckily Endless sponsors the costs of Flathub and the development of Digital Wellbeing and Parental Controls (hopefully that sponsorship will be endless lol))
(Losing Flathub would be really bad though, the whole universal package distribution would be in Canonical's hands)
KDE Plasma 6.2.1 released with improved support for XWayland games, various bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-1-improves-support-for-xwayland-games-fixes-various-bugs
Solus 4.6 released with Linux kernel 6.10 but without AppArmor patches (so Flatpak support isn't messed up), experimental GNOME Software and KDE Discover support for native packages and Flatpaks etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/10/solus-4-6-released-with-linux-kernel-6-10-usr-merge-migration-and-enhanced-desktops/
https://getsol.us/2024/10/14/solus-4-6-released/
Clonezilla Live 3.2 released with Linux kernel 6.11, Debian Sid base, zstd and zstdmt utilities merged, ocs-scan-disk utility now uses lsblk etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-2-disk-imaging-cloning-is-out-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-11
Google is working on a "native" Linux terminal app running Debian on Android by opening WebView for connecting to a VM:
https://news.itsfoss.com/google-android-linux-terminal/
(Native but utilizing a VM? Sound pretty contradicting 🤔️)
(Microsoft already made Linux an installable app on Windows, seems like Google liked the idea, plays copycat, because why not convince people to use an appified Linux instead of a real Linux system...)
Bottles 51.14 released with native option to force stop all processes, provision of bottle path as environment variable, Windows 11 compatibility, updated manifest, GNOME runtime and Wine base:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/10/bottles-51-14-enhances-windows-software-and-games-compatibility-for-linux-users/
(FOSS news in comment)
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