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Foundation members will be voting to elect a total of three board members. One will be to fill a seat that was vacated when its holder stepped down. The others are completely new seats.

Currently an experimental project, Slowroll is a hybrid distro that seeks to meld the stability of a fixed release distro like openSUSE Leap with the advantages of a rolling release like openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Two new seats on EFF’s board are filled by Erica Astrella and Yoshi Kohno, who bring valuable experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, security research, and data privacy to the table.

Gnu’s turning 40! The Free Software Foundation is pulling out all of the stops for a birthday celebration hack day on October 1.

In this week’s roundup, we look at the winding down of LibreOffice’s 7.5 series, how KDE’s getting it together for Plasma’s upcoming 6.0 release, Mozilla’s look at privacy issues and modern automobiles, and more.

None of the Gnome extensions that are in use now will work on Gnome 45 when it’s released on September 20.

In many ways, KDE Gear’s apps supply the backbone on the Linux desktop experience. Newly released KDE Gear 23.08 brings many changes to these apps, and we look at them here.

The cryptocurrency funded Brave Browser has a new proprietary AI assistant; new versions of Kali, KDE Gear, and LibreOffice; with changes on the way in The Document Foundation’s versioning scheme.

New users of Bodhi Linux might be confused about which of the four available ISO images to use. We’ve got your back.

The desktop environment that started as a side project for the Solus Linux distribution but has gone on to become included in many other distros, including Ubuntu Budgie, is out with a new release with new features and improvements.

Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can’t swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country’s recently passed news link law.

My immediate takeaway from reading on LWN this morning that Debian’s turned 30, was to think, “Holy crap, Batman! Thirty years ain’t nearly so long as it used to be.”

“I wanted to know about how the folks at Alma felt about the recently formed cartel that includes never to be trusted Oracle; SUSE, which is recovering from a case of Stockholm syndrome that was brought about by several decades of abuse by Novell and the other owners that followed; and Kurtzer’s Rocky Linux, which might be a fox or might be a lamb, I haven’t yet decided.”

In this week’s news roundup we look at the release of three Linux-based operating systems — one focused on privacy, one on the desktop, and the third for going mobile.

About a month after Canonical pulled LXD from Linux Containers, with the ‘LXD community experiment’ evidently being labeled internally as a ‘failure’ by Ubuntu, the code is forked and almost immediately accepted as a project at Linux Containers.

It seems to me that when Red Hat took control of CentOS back in the day, gave CentOS devs space in its offices to work, and actually helped CentOS’s devs make clones of RHEL that would then be freely distributed to anyone who wanted to run RHEL without having to purchase a support subscription — that sent a message to enterprise users (and it was the enterprise that mainly used CentOS when it was a downstream clone of RHEL) that Red Hat was fine with folks using their technology as CentOS, that Red Hat essentially thought there was plenty enough to go around for everybody.

With Red Hat helping Asahi Linux develop software for porting Linux to run on Apple’s Arm silicon, how long before Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports Apple hardware?

4MLinux 43.0 is available. A new version of a utility distro that focuses on server, multimedia, system rescue, and games.

Wong tells a story of burnout caused by understaffing, which is similar to what we’ve heard from other important but under-the-radar projects.

Released last week, Zorin 16.3 has two paid Pro editions, two free editions for everyday Linux users, and two educational editions.