Highlights

• Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils and sudo-rs
• TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption now considered stable
• More secure services (don't run as root if not needed, AppArmor profiles)
• AppArmor prompting for snaps is still experiemental unfortunately

Bazzite Linux is easily one of the most popular gaming-focused Linux builds to run on handhelds and gaming PCs, with a major new update launched. With Bazzite being based on Fedora, they're also gearing up towards the upcoming Fedora 44 release that's due next week. So we can look forward to even more improvements there once they rebase their packages onto Fedora 44 too.

With all the different countries and US states expanding age verification laws for various devices, here's what the Debian Linux team had to say about it.

It continues to be a sticky situation for many Linux distributions, with most taking a wait and see approach. We had previous posts covered here on GamingOnLinux from the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora, while System76 took the fight directly to law makers.

This full statement comes from the current Debian Linux project leader, Andreas Tille, written on their mailing list under "Bits from the DPL" that was posted April 4th.

I have basically combined the App and Mimetype icons of Colloid, the symbolic icons of Papirus and the Folder Icons of Zorin into one theme, I present to you Uniformity.

But this is not just a simple copy paste, here's what I changed.

1. Adapted the install script to this new structure so that it is easy to download themes with different folder colours.
2. Recreated the Zorin folder theme is SVG and changed all the glyphs.
3. Added over 40+ new app icons including a redesigned Flatseal Icon, Bazaar, Fragments, Eden, Musicbrainz and more.

I have made these and tested on Gnome only however they should work just fine with KDE as well. I would love for you to try it out and let me know what you'd like to see. I have laid down the groundworks for schemes which means you can adapt nord and catppuccin themes to this icon pack as well. The script works fairly well execpt the -t all flag seems to be a bit broken so I suggest installing colours individually.

OC by @acceptable_humor@lemmy.world

KDE announced Frameworks 6.25 as the latest monthly update to its add-on libraries for Qt and KDE applications. This release maintains the regular monthly schedule and requires Qt 6.9. Here are the highlights.

In KIO, KDE’s file access and management framework, improvements include enhanced file preview handling, better WebDAV copy and move behavior, improved FTP UTF-8 negotiation after login, refined paste behavior when the clipboard is empty, and updated URL fallback handling in KUrlNavigator. KIO also benefits from numerous leak fixes and internal cleanups.

KGuiAddons also receives attention, with fixes for clipboard-related issues on Wayland. The updated code now waits up to one second for clipboard contents and correctly interrupts a thread if the client extension becomes inactive. KWindowSystem resolves a Wayland-side crash, and KWallet addresses intermittent Secret Service session key mismatches with libsecret.

TL;DR: The advent of AI based, LLM coding applications like Anthropic’s Claude and ChatGPT have prompted maintainers to experiment with integrating LLM contributions into open source codebases.

This is a fast path to open source irrelevancy, since the US copyright office has deemed LLM outputs to be uncopyrightable. This means that as more uncopyrightable LLM outputs are integrated into nominally open source codebases, value leaks out of the project, since the open source licences are not operative on public domain code.

That means that the public domain, AI generated code can be reused without attribution, and in the case of copyleft licences - can even be used in closed source projects.

Longtime Mint stickler here, never developed a taste for any other distro schools (Arch, Fedora, other *buntus and Debians). But tried out MX after a long period of deferring and I am genuinely blown away. This distro has everything I could have ever ask for - Debian stability coupled with advanced hardware support (with more recent zen kernels and drivers), a solid opinionated Plasma DE setup that is both minimalist and all-encompassing at the same time, and a full stock of sensible and pragmatic utilities to cover the boring stuff.

Mint's relative lethargy at migrating to wayland has been increasingly becoming a sore point due to the sheer practical difference it makes (especially in terms of multi-monitor HiDPI and fractional scaling, in addition to security and performance). MX KDE has all that covered and then some. It's the first time I had to genuinely stretch to find any fault. The only complaint I have is that they aren't letting me post this testimonial in the MX forum because it doesn't accept anon-aliased emails for logins.