GNU Screen 5.0 Released With Rewritten Authentication Mechanism The very useful GNU Screen program for multiplexing terminals between processes is out with a shiny new feature release... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Screen-5.0

LinkedIn Migrates Their Servers From CentOS To Azure Linux LinkedIn has replaced CentOS as their default server operating system choice with Azure Linux to power all of their server needs... https://www.phoronix.com/news/LinkedIn-Switches-Azure-Linux

Cemu 2.1 Emulator Released With Flatpaks & AppImage For Linux, Initial Wayland Support Cemu is the Wii U emulator that went open-source and began building on Linux two years ago. Since then they've continued building up their Linux support and out today is the Cemu 2.1 emulator release with even better Linux support... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cemu-2.1-Released

GNU DDD 3.4.1 Released As GUI Front-End To GDB As the first new release in more than one year, GNU DDD 3.4.1 is now available as a GUI front-end to the GNU Debugger (GDB)... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-GDD-3.4.1-GDB

KDE Lands Per-Monitor Brightness Controls & Better KWin HDR Tone Mapping Ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.2 soft feature freeze happening next week, KDE developers have been preparing some last minut features for the desktop... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.2-Monitor-Brightness

AMD Prepares Sound Open Firmware Driver For ACP7.0 Hardware As part of catering to Google requirements around Google Chromebooks, AMD has been supporting Sound Open Firmware as the Intel-initiated open-source project across their APUs/SoCs. Sent out today was the patch for enabling ACP 7.0 SOF support for their newest SoCs like Strix Point to have Sound Open Firmware support... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ACP-7.0-SOF-Driver

Several Newer Gaming Handheld Devices To See Linux Sensor Monitoring Support The upstream Linux "oxp-sensors" driver began as a driver for supporting the sensors on the OneXPlayer handheld. With time this driver has been extended to support more handheld gaming consoles and a new patch enables support for several more devices... https://www.phoronix.com/news/OXP-Sensors-More-Hardware

LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite LibreOffice 24.8 is officially out today as the latest major feature update to this open-source office suite that's the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office. With LibreOffice 24.8 comes many new features throughout its various components... https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-24.8-Released

Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems This week marks nine years since the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat to ease the firmware updating/distribution process with the open-source Fwupd firmware updating utility... https://www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-9th-Birthday

VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 Released For This Big Oracle Virtualization Update Released last month was the VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 1 virtualization software release from Oracle. This new version is bringing a modernized GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing, and other improvements. Released yesterday was the second beta of this big VirtualBox update... https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-7.1-Beta-2