Fosilla Corporation :firefox:<p>This week's Linux and FOSS news:</p><p>LINUX NEWS</p><p>GNOME 48 will include sidebar for Text Editor, new default fonts, Digital Health / Wellbeing functionality:<br><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Text-Editor-Sidebar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Text-E</span><span class="invisible">ditor-Sidebar</span></a><br>(After FosseryWeb sidebar, get ready to have a sidebar in Text Editor too lol)</p><p>GTK 5 drops X11 support, introduces Android backend for the toolkit:<br><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-X11-Now-Deprecated" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phoronix.com/news/GTK-X11-Now-</span><span class="invisible">Deprecated</span></a><br>(Meanwhile on Wayland, many video chat services don't support screen sharing, video recording is still problematic (at least on Debian), but no problem, just drop X11 and ignore the mentioned use cases...)</p><p>KDE Gear 24.12.2 released with improvements for Dolphin, Itinerary, Tokodon, Kate, Kamera, Kdenlive, NeoChat etc.:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-24-12-2-improves-dolphin-itinerary-tokodon-and-many-other-kde-apps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/kde-gear-24-12-2</span><span class="invisible">-improves-dolphin-itinerary-tokodon-and-many-other-kde-apps</span></a></p><p>CachyOS ISO snapshot for February includes Linux kernel 6.13, NVIDIA 570 driver, KDE Plasma 6.2.5, enabled tap-to-click by default for the X11 session etc.:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/cachyos-iso-snapshot-for-february-2025-brings-linux-kernel-6-13-nvidia-570-driver" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/cachyos-iso-snap</span><span class="invisible">shot-for-february-2025-brings-linux-kernel-6-13-nvidia-570-driver</span></a></p><p>Tails 6.12 released with security fixes for Tor circuits and persistent storage, bug fixes:<br><a href="https://9to5linux.com/tails-6-12-anonymous-os-fixes-security-issues-in-tor-circuits-persistent-storage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/tails-6-12-anony</span><span class="invisible">mous-os-fixes-security-issues-in-tor-circuits-persistent-storage</span></a></p><p>(FOSS news in reply)</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WeeklyNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeeklyNews</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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