Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:<p>This week's Linux and FOSS news:</p><p>LINUX NEWS</p><p>GNOME Foundation has financial issues, reduced staff, calls for the help of community:<br><a href="https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/07/update-from-the-board-2024-10/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/0</span><span class="invisible">7/update-from-the-board-2024-10/</span></a><br>(Luckily Endless sponsors the costs of Flathub and the development of Digital Wellbeing and Parental Controls (hopefully that sponsorship will be endless lol))<br>(Losing Flathub would be really bad though, the whole universal package distribution would be in Canonical's hands)</p><p>KDE Plasma 6.2.1 released with improved support for XWayland games, various bug fixes:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-1-improves-support-for-xwayland-games-fixes-various-bugs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-1</span><span class="invisible">-improves-support-for-xwayland-games-fixes-various-bugs</span></a></p><p>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.:<br><a href="https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/10/solus-4-6-released-with-linux-kernel-6-10-usr-merge-migration-and-enhanced-desktops/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alternativeto.net/news/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/solus-4-6-released-with-linux-kernel-6-10-usr-merge-migration-and-enhanced-desktops/</span></a><br><a href="https://getsol.us/2024/10/14/solus-4-6-released/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">getsol.us/2024/10/14/solus-4-6</span><span class="invisible">-released/</span></a></p><p>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.:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-2-disk-imaging-cloning-is-out-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-11" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-</span><span class="invisible">3-2-disk-imaging-cloning-is-out-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-11</span></a></p><p>Google is working on a "native" Linux terminal app running Debian on Android by opening WebView for connecting to a VM:<br><a href="https://news.itsfoss.com/google-android-linux-terminal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.itsfoss.com/google-androi</span><span class="invisible">d-linux-terminal/</span></a><br>(Native but utilizing a VM? Sound pretty contradicting 🤔️)<br>(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...)</p><p>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:<br><a href="https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/10/bottles-51-14-enhances-windows-software-and-games-compatibility-for-linux-users/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alternativeto.net/news/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/bottles-51-14-enhances-windows-software-and-games-compatibility-for-linux-users/</span></a></p><p>(FOSS news in comment)</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WeeklyNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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